Mapping And Scoping.
Name: Shubham Santosh Sawant
(Industrial Design Student, 5th Semester)
Institution: National Institute of Design, Andhra Pradesh
Course: Mapping And Scoping.
Duration: 2 weeks (10th August 2020- 21st August 2020)
Guide: Kuntal De
In this course we are doing mapping of our surroundings. We have to learn this technique to understand our surroundings and finding problems and their possible solution and opportunity for any improvement in it.
In our first assignment of opportunity mapping we were asked to map our own house as we are still stuck in our house…
In the following map I have done the conflict mapping of my house which shows the conflict areas and the basic map of my house.
In the following map I have shown the interaction and conflicts regarding tmy cat. This is a fun assignment which I did to understand the behavior of my cat in my house.
I felt the need to make another map so that its easy to understand it as well as gives more information about the points which I have to mention. So I made another map with proper details …
Resource mapping : Water consumption
Average water consumption in the house -
Following is the mapping of water consumption during different seasons.
Resource mapping : Electricity consumption
Average electricity consumption in the house -
Following is the mapping of electricity consumption during different seasons.
Resource mapping : Daily Usage of light in house
Problem identification:
Identifying the problems and opportunity to solve them:
1. Water wastage:
We have a RO water purifier to filter and store drinking water in kitchen. The problem with the RO purifiers is that it throws out 3 times more water than it filters. which is causing major water wastage in our house.
How to avoid it:
To store the waste water and use it for other purpose like cleaning the floor, watering plants, washing cloths etc.
2. Water lever monitoring:
We use water pump to pull the water from underground water tank to fill the over head water tank which is the only water source in my house. It takes 30 minutes to fill that tank but some times if we forgot to turn off the motor switch the tank overflows and water is wasted. also at some point the under water storage tank gets empty and it causes water shortage.
How to avoid it:
To use a water level sensor which will monitor the water level in the tank and will automatically turn on and off the motor switch for required time period so that no water wastage happens.
3. Congested houses:
As my house is in a crowded area surrounded by other houses and buildings, we don’t get direct sunlight in our house which is also causing ventilation problem and disturbance.
4. Network issue :
Due to congested housing we face network issue in our house. For internet wifi router helps but for calling we face network problem.
5. Milk thief :
Every morning when milk man delivers milk packets outside the door. we have to collect the milk packet on time and if we are late to collect the milk some unknown cat punctures the milk packet and drinks all the milk.
How to avoid it:
To keep a box or vessel with a lid outside the door for milk packets.
Following is the prezi presenation about RO water purifier: