Graduate Year
This project-based course focuses on cross-disciplinary collaboration and learning together through investigating an in-depth problem, ideating potential solutions, developing prototypes, and generating a final solution to the problem. This semester, grad students collaborated with the Department of Health and Human Performance, Physical Therapists and Physical Therapy Faculty from University of Louisville to develop a concept to help spinal cord injury and stroke patients to learn how to walk again.
Currently, ski poles are designed in such a way that repairing or replacing components is very difficult if not impossible.When one pole breaks, more often than not, the entire set (including the unbroken pole), goes into the garbage. If all the components were independent of one another:
1: repairs could be made (keeping both broken and unbroken part from entering the landfill)
2: consumers could customize their pole
3: upgrades could be made for new trends or components
4: disassembly would be possible and the poles could be recycled.
WishCycle is a fun way to learn those tedious recycling rules. By reframing interactions with post-consumer plastics as elements in a game with immediate feedback, players learn nuances about recycling procedures in real time. The game doubles as an experiment that registers player performance on the backend.
RADO-V10K inspired faucet design that borrows its DNA of elegant design and hard material characteristics.