While putting our storyboards together, I couldn’t help but notice how many contradictions these “extreme” field interviews revealed. Both of our interviewees claimed in their recruitment questions to be something that they definitely were not. Interviewee #1 did acknowledge this during the interview, expressing that it is something she is working on, however, Interviewee #2 seemed to lack a degree of self-awareness. She claims she is a minimalist who can’t stand her new husband’s clutter, but revealed during the interview that everything in the (very full) house was hers.
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I know we are supposed to be unbiased and empathetic in our interviews, but I don’t understand why someone would invite strangers into her home and then just not speak to them. It is difficult not to think poorly of someone when they are so unhelpful and often rude.
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Designer Jack Bredenfoerder examines the influence of the economic crisis and predicts some significant directions design will take as a result.
one solution for too much stuff
Today on their blog, Landor posted a link to Wearable Collections - a clothing collection service with a pretty clever solution for the millions of pounds of unwanted clothing that end up in landfills. Since our class is exploring similar kinds of problems, I decided to check it out.
Wearable Collections will deliver a bin to residential buildings and when you’ve filled it up with all the clothes you don’t want or need anymore, they cart it away at no cost. (My group for the Blitz! actually briefly considered looking into a mobile collections service like this, thinking that maybe people would be more willing to donate their clothing to thrift stores if the process was easier.)
These guys have taken it a step or two further, though. Instead of just sending the clothes to Goodwill or the Salvation Army, Wearable Collections sell what they’ve collected to third parties. The usable clothes are then sent to market in places like Latin and South America for resale, unwearable clothes are turned into rags or sent to facilities to be broken down into reusable fibers.
