For everybody who’s interested, we wrote a research paper about the influence of gamification on awareness about natural hazards.
The research paper is still in its concept phase, so it will be improved during the next sprint.
For everybody who is interested you can read it here .
During last 3 weeks, we have been analysing our route and what we want to deliver in June to our partner Amsterdam Rainproof. First of all, we decided that this project will be focused just on one product: a game!
Our programmer and designer are doing a great job developing this product, that will contain a quiz about climate change, Amsterdam Rainproof and different kind of rainproofing measures. In this way, the players will have a good time learning how to protect their houses. At the same time, there are DIY cards for rainproofing your house, that can also offer services and could function like vouchers for discounts on rainproofing measures.
This is how our game is going to look like
Therefore, if you are a small (or a big) company and want to reach new customers, and help people who want to be more rainproof, just let us know and we will contact you to explain how!
As you can see, there are many ways of making this possible for all of us, even you are a private, small shop or a big company. Thus, we will upload more news in the following weeks, because our last sprint will be focused on testing the game at Fab City and closing the deals we need to make in order to make our product viable.
Join us next Friday at Amsterdam Rainproof container at Fab City and try our game!
So, three more weeks have passed, but what is up with the rainproof beer? We have done quite a lot for the beer.
In the first week, we started brewing a new beer, a weizenbier, we were brewing it in the HvA studio, so we got some attention. The minor entrepeneurship noticed us and wrote an article in their startup magazine about us.
The second batch was yeasting in our locker for two weeks, and is now ready to be bottled!
Team Rainproof brewing in the MediaLAB kitchen
Letting the yeast do its job!
The day after the brewing, we were invited to join the knowledge mile dinner at The Pool, where we were invited to speak on the stage about our project and the beer. The Knowledge mile is an initiative of several public and private parties to make the wibautstraat and weesperstraat the most innovative and smartest street in Amsterdam. The knowledge mile also wants to be green, therefore they invited us to tell something.
In the same week, we also got in contact with a local brewery, who were interested in testing brewing with larger quantities of rainwater. We only need a place to catch the rainwater. This place will be the volkshotel, where we will install a simple installation that catches the rainwater that falls on the flat roof.
Alright, so the only thing is, is rainwater safe for consumption? We tested the pH in HvA’s chemistry lab, which was 7, that means that it is ok. Another thing is organic contamination, we got advice from the biology lab, who said that boiling the water for at least 10 minutes will remove all organic contamination. Besides that, we got information from hemel(s)water, who did research on chemical contamination of rainwater, this report stated that it was safe for consumption. However, if we want to commercially sell the beer, there will be more research needed.
“In sociology, a group action is a situation, in which a number of agents take action simultaneously, in order to achieve a common goal. Group action will often take place when social agents realize they are more likely to achieve their goal when acting together, rather than individually.”
This little text explains exactly what we are trying to develop right now. We need your help, so, read carefully and join us!
As you know, we are working on creating awareness about heavy rainfall since a couple of months ago. After doing some research and talking to many stakeholders, our team thinks that creating a movement is actually a really interesting step.
To take care of your properties and protect them against heavy rainfall in a city like Amsterdam, is easier as you think, like we have shown you before, so now we would like to go further!
The platform we are creating is called Raincatchers, and the main goal is to connect citizens, companies and different kind of agents to create more value about this topic. How? So easy!
You, as a citizen of Amsterdam! This platform will give you the option to share your knowledge about prevention measures against floods, receiving feedback and having the chance to know about existing resources to develop your idea.
You, as a company! You will have the option of supporting this network through different services we will offer you.
Of course, actually we are doing interviews to go on with this idea and become it viable and useful for everyone. Taking as a base this idea we are sharing with you in this post, we will start analysing the received feedback to know better your needs, lacks and wishes.
So to conclude, don’t hesitate to join our Facebook group Raincatchers, and lets start moving all together to become Amsterdam a safe city against heavy rains and climate changing.
Here is the survey in case of being curious about what kind of things we would like to know from you. There is in English and also in Dutch, and you can send the answers to: iratisantxo92@gmail.com or dymphieburger@gmail.com. THANK YOU!
If you also want to join the movement, join on Raincatchers.
