Capstone Proposal: Green Box
FALL SEMESTER
- Week 7: Research into products and equipment that are being used today in homes or spaces to be efficient in energy and eco-friendly to the environment.
- Week 8: Understanding the cost of all these products and the benefits they bring to the environment and users.
- Week 9: Spend time on the user end trying to understand how sustainability and eco-friendly practices can become more easy to comprehend and do-able in any space.
- Week 10: Spend time looking into areas around chicagoland that use eco-friendly and sustainable methods in community environments.
- Week 11: Call/Visit in order to gather more information on practices they use and possibly talk to people who work to keep these practices of sustainability and community alive.
- Week 12: If an interview was possible, use that to see insights that could lead me to understanding and implementing it into my concept of sustainability; green box.
- Week 13: Craft and refine the methods, practices, and products I want to use and implement into the green box for users and the environment.
- Week 14: Draft a user-friendly guide that coincides with the green box subscription that talks about and explains each item and method that is contained inside the box.
- Week 15: Finalize user-friendly draft for green box concept.
SPRING SEMESTER
- Week 2: Rough sketches of green box design and concept
- Week 3: Finalize look and design of green box.
- Week 4: Draft a powerpoint presentation that includes research, ideas, concepts, sketches, and finalizations of the project.
- Week 5: Working on powerpoint
- Week 6: Use software to make renderings of the green box and how it would look in concept and use.
- Week 7: Renderings
- Week 8: Spend time looking back at initial research about how practices of sustainability and equipment in homes and spaces are being used to be eco-friendly to the environment.
- Week 9: Implement ideas and concepts from different areas such as, tiny homes
- Week 10: Propose a rough sketch of homes and spaces that implement eco-friendly design and sustainability practices.
- Week 11: Finalize sketches
- Week 12: Use software to render what these spaces would possibly look like in use.
- Week 13: Finalize renderings
- Week 14: Finalize Presentation
- Week 15: Presentation
