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Wikipedia has a nice page on PPE Personal Protective Equipment, which I stumbled upon when I was almost finished with my collection: | Wikipedia has a nice page on PPE Personal Protective Equipment, which I stumbled upon when I was almost finished with my collection: | ||
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+ | This project was born out-off a conversation about designing clothes for extreme weather conditions. I expected to have a range of clothing items that would be suited to surviving specific meteorological threats. These would be either drawn or prototyped. These designs should be funny, so this implied they probably would be impracticable to some extent. To show the use of the inventions I imagined short stories and perhaps a collection of stories would be the end product. Another angle of creating a character would be to see how it can function as merchandise or how it can be weaved into the realities of FoAM. | ||
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- | This project was born out-off a conversation about designing clothes for extreme weather conditions. I expected to have a range of clothing items that would be suited to surviving specific meteorological threats. These would be either drawn or prototyped. These designs should be funny, so this implied they probably would be impracticable to some extent. To show the use of the inventions I imagined short stories and perhaps a collection of stories would be the end product. | ||
- | * if the actual outcomes are different than the expected outcome, the reasons for this should be explained in the " | ||
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== Designing Tsunamipants, | == Designing Tsunamipants, | ||
- | The first step to design portable safety technology for natural disasters is to make a full list of these horrors. From this the first opportunities for design become apparent. This can be complemented by a list of controversial technologies (biofuels), activities (air-travel), | + | The first step to design portable safety technology for natural disasters is to make a full list of these horrors. From this the first opportunities for design become apparent. This can be complemented by a list of controversial technologies (biofuels), activities (air-travel), |
== Character development of Martin Brolin. == | == Character development of Martin Brolin. == | ||
- | The narrative structure of this research hinted at the value of having a central character. While driving to the supermarket, | + | The narrative structure of this research hinted at the value of having a central character. While driving to the supermarket, |
- | Martin should be European, because of the Christian flavouring of the Climate | + | Martin should be European, because of the Christian flavouring of the climate-change debate. I chose Sweden |