Project Update

Well the presentations were last Thursday and everything seemed to go well, and it was nice to see what some of the others have been doing as you kind of loose track of the others as you are so focused on your own project. It was also good to get good feedback about the presentations, which bodes well for next semesters massively important presentaion of hell! More feedback will be given this week from Sue in our group session. So looking forward to gaining some insights in to where to go from here, as I only have a rough idea!

Progress Update

As you can see from my short film below I have managed to sum up some of my main information of my research so far. This film will lead nicely in to helping me establish grounds for a powerpoint for our presentations last thursday!

Recycling Film

Project Update

Ok since I last blogged I've been quite a busy bunny! I have started a map of the city centre and have located where in the city there are recycling points and recycling centres, including on-street recycling points. I have also been out and about observing users in their natural habitat when it comes to recyclng, and asking them questions about what they see are the barriers etc.

I have also been looking at my results from my survey. I was quite surprised at the amound of responses I had to the survey and the results were exactly what I was needing in regards of information and attitudes towards the different types of recycling and also the barriers.

I will have a short film which will follow which sums up some of these points.

Recycling Survey

Friday was quite an exciting day as my survey went in to the bulletin! This was a great idea, as the whole university students, lecturers and staff get it sent to them. From having my survey posted in the bulleting my responses went soaring up! I have now got 60 responses, which is more than enough to collate some findings from! I'm so happy!

And following on from having my survey in the bulletin two members of staff who deal with the recycling on campus contacted me and hopefully I am meeting with one of them today! I will update after the meeting!

More research ...

So after going through almost every book, journal and webpage that I can find, I have decided to move on to primary research. This includes things such as observing people and their recycling habbits, doing a survey and going out and speaking to people. I started this with my survey. The aim of my survey was to find out the behaviours and patterns of use of people who recycle. And from this I hope to gain enough information to help minimise the barriers that may stop or discourage people to recycle. And from this I also plan to go out to different recycling areas and talk to 10 people about things such as why they have come here today, and of how often they come.

Wall of words

As part of the start of our research our class got together and thought of words that related best to each of our projects. With these words we then took them and arranged them in to logical groupings on the wall. From these groupings of words we came up with our groups which we would work in with the lecturers. The three groups are Culture & Perceptions, Economics & Sustainability and User-centred & Lifestyle. I found this very helpful, as now I feel that I have some people to bounce ideas etc off of! Our word wall is pictured above.

Research

For the fast few weeks now I've been looking mainly at secondary research, which is basically trolling through books, journals and the web and printing off lots of information! Which seems ironic as I'm doing a project on recycling and sustainability and I'm killing lots of trees in the process. So far i've been looking in to the broader picture of recycling and sustainability.

The main areas I'm looking at are:
Legislation and regulations
A sense of recycling in the world
Community research
Current recycling schemes
Inclusive Design
Design Exclusion