Environment

WASTER — an unexpected journey

One day me and Diego Tirado, my colleague whom I came to know just in…

#6. Game changers — Prototype

Game Changers

Our group’s aim was to create some changes in the fields of environment, sustainable cities, communities, ecology trough connecting people. The idea was based on our first impressions of Athens, concretely of the most famous…

Dare to Challenge: “Life Below Water”

How we became a team

Our application

This is an article that talks about an acquaintance of 5 students, a common concern about a problem we are facing these days and the finding of a solution about…

Dare to Challenge : “Life Below Water”

Our team has chosen goal 14. This task is named “Life Below Water”. As a result we focused on matters such as sea pollution and the extinction of endangered species.

We interviewed three fishermen based on the island of Kefallonia.

User Experience Map for Clean Slate app

Our initial idea was to raise awareness to younger ages about zooming out from themselves and zoom in to the environmental needs. We have observed lately that not only the rubbish bins of Athens, but many others are full of garbage. The recycling bins have…

Brainstorming about GRIN-CO-CREATIONS

GrinCo is a project developed in the context of the “Dare to Challenge” workshop by Betty Tsakarestou in Panteion university of Athens, where we’ve been encouraged to challenge social circumstances and offer viable solutions to digital and physical communities…

GrinCo Blog #1: Production, consumption and the environment

There’s little doubt that our planet is in dire need of attention and care. Despite recent efforts to legitimize climate change skepticism, awareness for environmental issues is at an all time high. State laws promote “green”…

GrinCo Blog #2: Let’s talk about Yorgos

Υes, that guy. We all know him here in Greece. He’s the overqualified electrical engineer working part-time at the sports merchandise store two blocks away to make ends meet. The vehicle designer dreaming about Pininfarina’s Cisitalia 202, while cooking…