Water Cart.

Another university project required us to come up with an innovation that altered a system within society in order to make it more sustainable (ethically, economically and/or environmentally).

My design innovation aimed to, at least in part, address the issue of society’s increasing reliance on plastic water bottles due to the ongoing, and increasing, culture of convenience.

In researching this assignment I came across some staggering statistics, as well as some brilliant awareness-increasing campaigns across the globe.

The key point, I found, that enabled plastic, disposable water bottles to continue to be sold was the fact that there is a culture of convenience present within society. This, therefore, had to be addressed and incorporated into my design for it to be successful.

The design that I came up with was for a water cart. It would be a small structure made out of plastic water bottles that sold stainless steel water bottles and that could be placed in different locations – one day it might be in a food court, the next day at a popular tourist site, and that evening at a concert.

In presenting our design we had to submit storyboards of our idea, mine are below: