Rainproof

By dymphieburger March 23rd, 2016

The last part of sprint 2

So, what is the rainproof team doing a sprint later? This morning were the peer pitches, where every team gives a short presentation about the results of their sprint and what they want to do in the next sprint. Our goal was to deliver two concepts with a low fidelity prototype and a small report that explains the two concepts.

In our translate session we discussed our concepts with Amsterdam Rainproof and after that, we explained why we chose to focus on two concepts. The New Lake concept and the Raingers! game concept. We chose these two, because they would be effective to raise awareness and engage people, whilst also being doable.

New Lake

If you already forgot what New Lake was about, the idea is to create a platform that connects citizens (private homeowners) to industry professionals and provides information about rainproofing your house. They can also upload ideas, give feedback and invest in projects. Professionals can join projects. When a project has been executed, the “idea” could be sold on the platform.

photo (1) A user storyboard for New Lake

By dymphieburger March 17th, 2016

Take our survey

In order to do some user reserach, we made a survey. It is just taking five minutes and we would really appreciate it if you fill it in :).

This is the link to the survey.

By dymphieburger March 16th, 2016

Laser cutting a prototype

Every wednesday, all the MediaLAB interns have workshops, and today we had a laser cutting and adobe illustrator workshop. Every team should make a file in adobe illustrator that could be used by the laser cutter. We decided to make a prototype for our board game and to draw the board. Combined with information from waternet, we gave a ranking to each borough how rainproof it was on average. The more “rainproof” the borough was, the higher it would be on the board.

The illustration

Then we went to the makers lab and got an explanation how the laser cutter worked and decided to cut the boroughs out of cardboard multiple times. After that, we paste them back on each other again, the more “rainproof” boroughs were cut out more than the less “rainproof” boroughs.

By dymphieburger March 15th, 2016

Rainproof occupying the MediaLAB! – the Office tour

Ok, we are not totally occupying the office, only for four days a week, and only one corner. However, we will try to put our concepts on all our walls to create the “rainproof” corner in the MediaLAB office. So we will give you a quick tour through the office and our newly developed concepts.

We are, as you might know at the Amstelcampus of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences). We work in the Studio, a small office where the master Urban Management, the minor Entrepeneurship and the MediaLAB Amsterdam are situtated. We always work in one corner of the office, next to the ESA (European Space Agency) team.

At the back you might see some posters hanging on the walls, those are our newly developed concepts. Read more

By dymphieburger March 7th, 2016

No team without a real flag and logo!

In the first weeks of our project, we had to design a flag. The flag should represent all of our backgrounds, the themes and should be as simple as possible, what resulted in the following flag.

A short explanation of the flag Read more

By dymphieburger March 7th, 2016

The first results…

Long time no see! Time to update you on our progress. The past three weeks we have been working on our first goal, getting to know the subject and defining the aim of our project. We divided this according to the scrum method, into many sub goals and tasks. This would make us able to work without sub deadlines in our first sprint. We worked at both te studio at the HvA and at Pakhuis de Zwijger, where Amsterdam Rainproof has an office.

During this sprint we met some of our possible partners, we went to Amsterdam Rainproof and we talked with researchers from HvA, from the citizen data lab. There is another group from the HvA that is doing a project to create a green roof on one of the buildings on the campus, that also engages the students.

During our translate session, it became clear that we wanted to make an infographic, that showed the seriousness of the topic and combined climate change trends and water management problems all in one. We visualised all the data we found and created the following infographic. Read more

By dymphieburger February 19th, 2016

User scene assignment

In the first week of our project we got to know each other’s abilities by doing a user scene assignment. Within three days, we defined a target group after doing some research and we made a small video, that we presented on Tuesday. The video can also be found on the MediaLAB youtube channel.

By dymphieburger February 15th, 2016

Getting started

Hi everyone,

welcome on the blog of the Rainproof team! On this blog, we will give you an overview of our project, our findings and our experiences. Since this is our first post, we would like to introduce ourselves and tell you a bit more about the project we are going to do.

This is us:

Irati

I am Irati, the entrepreneur in the Rainproof project at Media Lab. I have just finished my degree in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation, this being my first internship after the university. Now, we are ready to face new challenges and design new solutions for Amsterdam Rainproof. Read more

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