Ishani Jaiprakash Kuwar

BD3011

Across Roads

Are cities designed with children in mind? Modern cities have proven to be so dangerous that children get restricted from moving around freely. Knowing that children learn from their surroundings, its disheartening to cage them in their homes. Parents are doing this out of concern and the city is doing their best at ensuring the citizens get the needed amenities. When you look at the system at large, the more questions arise and the more answers we receive. We zoom in and we zoom out to investigate and attempt to solve the problem at hand.


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Across Roads is a road crossing aid for younger children

The work begins with using various tools like user persona, journey mapping, graphical representation of child growth, real vs ideal scenarios and more

Moving to gigamapping to put down all the researched information in one place to find patterns one hadn't seen before. That led me to find the main structure of the problem.

After a variety of solutions and form development options I arrived to the final design.

The final design is roughly 1m tall and has wheels that go under in a railing. It is an anti theft design.

The design has two sensors to ensure a level of safety while keeping the act autonomous.

This is one the smaller pre-midsemester projects we did in groups.

We looked solely at food packaging and zoomed out from there to find the problem that's present at large.

Similarly, this is another pre-midsemester project about addiction to devices.

In this project we tried a zoom in approach where we looked at a problem at large first.

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