Week_8

=** Tutorial Question #8 ** = ===** Describe how Natalie Jeremijenko has based her research on 'new technologies are are opportunity for social transformation' to perform 'small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health' (2 paragraphs). Choose 2 projects on How Stuff Is Made and write about how they are made (1 paragraph). Why is it important that we understand how stuff is made as part of our systems analysis and design process? (1 paragraph) ** ===

Natalie Jeremijenko's research on 'new technologies are an oppotunity for social transformation' to perform 'small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health' by building greenspaces such as marshes through the city of New York. Through this action the marshes take in the toxins and release them as clean output. This helps what Natalie said about our illnesses aren't caused by aging and bacteria, they are caused by the changing environment around us.

Also, the research on keeping tadpoles as pets enables us to see how they react in clean and dirty water. Because of their low body mass and density, they are sensitive to environmental changes. She also directs the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic, which develops and prescribes locally optimized and often playful strategies to effect remediation of environmental systems, producing measurable and mediagenic evidence and co-ordinating diverse projects to effective material change.

//Fortune cookies// are made from 4 basic ingredients; sugar, flour, eggs, and water. A machine then squirts batter into griddles in a rotating wheel that bakes them at approximately 375 degrees. The paper fortunes are loaded into a tray and are released individually and a mechanical arm holds the fortune as another arm sweeps the cookie from the rotating wheel. Once the paper fortune is on the cookie, the machine folds the cookie. After the cookies have hardened, they are inspected and sent back into a machine that individually wraps them before being shipped to their destination. The //American flag// is produced in China. First, computer controlled embroidery occurs. Then human labor is required for detailed work on the flags, along with tailoring and sewing. The flags are ironed and then human labour is again required for striking grommets. The flags are then packaged and shipped away.

It is important that we understand how stuff is made as part of our systems analysis and design process so that we can address fair trade issues and make ethically conscious decisions during the process. Ethically conscious decisions include environmental and humane processes. Also, we are able to find cost-effective methods of production that allow us to create a product at a low-cost so that we can sell it to the other 90%.