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Personal Apartment Composting Bin

Shuai, Yuan (2022) In Diploma work IDEM05 20221
Industrial Design
Abstract
This project aims to explore the possibilities of living sustainable lives in urban environments. I focus my project on food waste composting in apartments. I collected interviews about the problems people had with disposing of food waste in
their apartments, and by searching the literature to select the most suitable composting ways. I have studied and summarized the problems of current products through market research. When designing my own products, I have tried to solve
and optimize these problems as much as possible. I finally design a device that can finish the whole composting process for people who live alone in apartments or other housing environment without a garden or backyard. Through this project, I discovered that... (More)
This project aims to explore the possibilities of living sustainable lives in urban environments. I focus my project on food waste composting in apartments. I collected interviews about the problems people had with disposing of food waste in
their apartments, and by searching the literature to select the most suitable composting ways. I have studied and summarized the problems of current products through market research. When designing my own products, I have tried to solve
and optimize these problems as much as possible. I finally design a device that can finish the whole composting process for people who live alone in apartments or other housing environment without a garden or backyard. Through this project, I discovered that sustainability can be seen as a healthy attitude to life. What designers can do is to guide users to practice this kind of life through products, and bring users more convenient and high-quality experience in the process of practice. (Less)
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author
Shuai, Yuan
supervisor
organization
course
IDEM05 20221
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
publication/series
Diploma work
report number
ISRN: LUT-DVIDE/EX--22/50589-SE
other publication id
ISRN
language
English
id
9079009
date added to LUP
2022-05-04 10:31:42
date last changed
2022-05-04 14:35:52
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  abstract     = {{This project aims to explore the possibilities of living sustainable lives in urban environments. I focus my project on food waste composting in apartments. I collected interviews about the problems people had with disposing of food waste in 
their apartments, and by searching the literature to select the most suitable composting ways. I have studied and summarized the problems of current products through market research. When designing my own products, I have tried to solve 
and optimize these problems as much as possible. I finally design a device that can finish the whole composting process for people who live alone in apartments or other housing environment without a garden or backyard. Through this project, I discovered that sustainability can be seen as a healthy attitude to life. What designers can do is to guide users to practice this kind of life through products, and bring users more convenient and high-quality experience in the process of practice.}},
  author       = {{Shuai, Yuan}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{Diploma work}},
  title        = {{Personal Apartment Composting Bin}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}