To the left you see a Dutch Newspaper article [Leeuwarder Courant - May 2016] where I was interviewed to elaborate on our trip and our invention.
I also made an animation to give explanation to the project as a whole, which you can see below. I was responsible in this for the Design, production and voice-over.
This is a 3D model of our Solar-powered cooling device's prototype. This model has been produced by our projectpartner Tjalling Werkman.
This is a 3D model of our Solar-powered cooling device's prototype. This model has been produced by Tjalling. Photography credits go to Sjors Evers.
This is a brainstorm sketch where I've been exploring various abstract ideas and possible outcomes of the product in a playful way.
This is an explanatory image that I made which was meant to illustrate a way the product could potentially work.
An illustration I made to explain the cooling method we were working on using 'Peltier' elements.
An exploded view illustration of the prototype made by Tjalling.
This is a photograph taken of me and Stan with our Masai friends during our stay in the Masai Mara, where we conducted our research.
This is a Dutch Newspaper article [Leeuwarder Courant - May 2016] where I was interviewed to elaborate on our trip and the product we were developing.
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FRIJI
2015 - 2016 | Friji is a project I started together with two fellow students, Stan Borns and Tjalling Werkman. The project was commissioned by Solar S3C, an organisation that brings solar energy to rural African schools and communities.
S3C introduced us to a problem the Masai (a nomadic tribe living in Kenya, Africa) were facing. The problem evolved around cooling and transporting milk from one place to another, but the exact problems were difficult to define.
The philosophy we used to work on this project was 'Human-Centered Design', and we tackled it using the 'Design Thinking' method. This means that we've worked in several iterations, resulting in rapid prototyping.
For this project we held various creative brainstorms and I made several sketches as images show. Once settled on a potential 'solar-powered cooling device' model, me and Stan continued the project together with just the two of us.
It was this point that we decided it was time to define the problems more specifically. We started a crowdfunding project to go on a journey and travel to Kenya in order to execute field research, hoping to validate our prototype.
The trip to Kenya resulted not only in validation for our prototype, but also helped us define the problem more specifically, triggered idea's for different ways our product could be implemented and brought completely new/different problems to the surface.
These newly found problems have kick-started a new project, which Stan is currently working on that evolves around plastic waste and recycling plastic in the rural area's of Kenya.