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Sustainable Workspaces

Team

Sustainable Workspaces
  • Rokas Raudonius
  • Laura Karssen
  • Antónia Varga
  • Thierry Karsemeijer

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Description

A fresh start

 

Great projects start with a great team. Let us introduce ourselves.

Laura:  “I am a third-year Media and Culture student. I am very interested in internet governance and the politics behind the biggest stakeholders in the new media world and I consider myself a movie geek.”

Antonia: “I am a graduating Game Design student with a design thinking minor background and also a volunteer at a scouting group and would love to work for children in the future as well.”

Thierry:  “I am in my  last year of Communication and Multimedia Design in Rotterdam. I am inspired by music, art and culture. In my spare time I like to create graphic designs and film & video.”

Rokas: “I am a student in Advertising with international experience, driven by nature, people and the pursuit of perfect design. I seek paths not yet explored to find new insights and solutions. Occasionally I backpack and go on a crazy adventure.”

Together we are a multidisciplinary team with a wide set of skills and a clear goal to create value for our partner “Eneco” in this 5 months project.

During this semester you will be able to follow our journey through the eyes of the whole team and each individual separately. Let’s begin!

 

Getting to know “energy wasters”

“The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have” – S. Jobs.

Finding underlying users’ wants, needs, aspirations together with struggles they encounter every day, sets the direction of design process. Therefore we created a user video to get to know our users better.

We distinguished our main stakeholders as small and medium companies, who are not aware of energy waste due to inefficient heating, lighting and appliances use. Forgetting to turn off the thermostat, lights and other electrical devices contribute the most to the energy waste and therefore – energy bills.

 

 

This is the cost of forgetfulness, but what is the cause?

The cause of energy waste in companies

To switch everything off for the night might require finding dozens of switches, programming the thermostat, searching for any device that is still running and turning it off as well. It’s a lot of work, especially, when it is the last task you have to do before going home at the end of a long day. No surprise that people accidentally or intentionally forget to execute this task properly. After all, energy saving shouldn’t waste people’s time.

 

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