Garden pots
Creativity and digital design
The purpose
Design of pots with the goal of donating them to a primary school to enable students to grow their own food and learn about agriculture. The projects were developed by first-semester high school students in the Creativity and Digital Design class, using recyclable materials they had at home.
PrepaTec
2024
Product design and project management
Manual
The process
The process began with the motivation to create a sustainability project that would impact both the students carrying out the project and the students receiving it. To find a place where the self-watering pots would be donated, we decided to speak with the Prepa Tec's partner organizations to ensure our impact extended beyond the local area. This way, we connected with a school that already conducted planting classes and practices but did not have enough materials to maintain the plants while the children were absent.
After the initial contact, we began the process of empathizing to truly understand the requirements and needs of our user. Subsequently, the characteristics that the pots and infographics needed to have were defined, with the goal of ensuring these projects were coherent and met all necessary criteria.
The design
For the design, we considered incorporating three distinct elements: the base, a water container, and a planting container. During the development process, various layout and design ideas for the planters emerged, resulting in different outcomes that were equally functional and easy to transport.
The impact
This project impacts two specific groups: PrepaTec students and the students receiving the donations.
The former gained the necessary knowledge to create a highly usable product with various electrical mechanisms. The donation also represents a challenge for them, as the final results needed to have the required quality for someone else to use them, in addition to reusing elements that are usually considered useless. On the other hand, the students who received the donations can put their cultivation learnings into practice without worrying about the plants on the days they are absent.
