Here are some course sub-themes and project examples to help you with your design ideas:
Course Sub-themes
- Design a campaign to raise general public awareness about upcycling and the circular economy
- Capture data and indicators to make local systems of the city’s waste streams and consumption more visible
- Capture data and indicators to make the circular economy more visible and tractable
- Create new ways to enable recycling, reuse and upcycling projects (both online and offline)
- Design a political campaign aimed at changing policies and laws at city and state level
Project Examples
- The SHRUB Food Sharing Hub - redistributes good quality excess food from businesses to the community
- Trash Track - MIT project that tracked waste across the United States using RFID tags
- Precious Plastic - designs tools to make it easier to recycle plastic
- The Climate Challenge Fund has many examples of projects that reduce local carbon emissions
