Current Project – Work in Progress!
Increasing the accessibility of sustainable shaving to the majority of users by modifying an existing product; a Gillette or a Wilkinson Sword razor.
3 Week Project as part of the Other Today Studio at the University of Brighton 2nd year BSc
Identifying and Modifying an Existing Product
Starting with a photo brainstorm, 3 HMWs were set out which could be used to fulfill the brief. I decided to move forward with ‘How might we increase the sustainability of shaving’. After some initial research and my own existing knowledge, there are countless ways of making shaving sustainable, which have already been around for over a hundred years. It’s the larger companies saturating the market with disposable razors which has prevented wider audiences from using them. I decided to then make the change to ‘How might we make sustainable shaving more accessible’, which I felt was a more accurate view of the problem. This also met some of the insights which I was already looking at such as giving control back to the user, reducing built in obsolescence and increasing the lifespan of a product through reuse and repair
Initial Research
Existing Forum Research
Questionaires
Expert Interviews
Insights
A way forward!
Initial Ideas
Development
3D Printing
Render
Filming
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