The Communitay Attic

For our design study, we need to create a new company or service for a post consumer audience in teamwork. So every Thursday we have a group meet at school from 12,30pm-17, 00pm. We have a few weeks to research and develop our idea then do a presentation. At the first we do a mind map for the research. We find most of them are over 30s shopping at the recycle centre and the necessities of life products are most papule of them that are they want find the planet, environment, fair-trade products and modest consumption.

We also go to visit a Recycle Centre at Dundee. It is a really big shop like a factory and the consumers can find every thing the daily need. The workers tell us before they sale the products they will check them to ensure them can use where we visited their workshop and it is amazing. So they can build a good trust contract with the consumers because most of the consumers are repeat customers. They try to educate others belief that ‘money does not equal status’ that is the used things not only can save money it is also can reduce waste.

We do a list of the ideas below:

-A City Allotment - allowing people to grow their own vegetables

-Community ‘Buy in Bulk’ service - to save money and waste

-Collecting peoples unwanted food - delivering to homeless shelters

-An app - allowing the consumer to scan items to se their sustainability ratings

-Restaurant - selling meals prepared with fair-trade and local products

-A Community Sharing Service - we would store everyone’s items from their garage/loft and rent them out when needed.

Finally we decide do a new community sharing service and the idea behind this business was to have a sense of community. We call the name is ‘THE COMMUNITAY ATTIC’ and on the logo we says, what ours is yours. Then we went to visited some people what they think about the second hand shops. The team number found the money information details.

At the finally we put the ideas get together a presentation and presentation it in front of out design lecture. I really enjoy the teamwork and everyone was work hard for it that we believe the company will be going well.