22nd July’ 08
Today was our first session. We started with the formal introduction of everyone. I was the first one to start with it. There are total 14 students working in campaign projects.
Benjamin Creek student of RMIT is going to work with me on project External Pancreas.
Soumitri introduced himself and made a small presentation of his work.
He explained briefly on issues like sustainability and social innovation, with the examples of paddle cycle intervention and restoration of Austin car.
To make us familiar with the campaign project, he showed a small introductory movie on campaign projects. Further he explained about each project, which is going to happen within this semester.
There are total three project first is Icarus, which deals car sharing, second is Locavore project and third is External Pancreas which deals with product development for diabetics.
Then we were told to go through the brief of the project and decide a tangible timeline for the project. Soumitri also gave us some sheets for self assessment. After this we dispersed for project discussion in individual groups.
I introduced myself to Ben and told him about my college, work experience and vice e versa. Ben is a second year student of product design in RMIT, but he has already done diploma in product designing before. I found him sincere and very well organized in the course of discussion. We shared our thoughts about the project; we worked out the time line and decided how we are going about the project.
Ben is going to study the Australian context and I am supposed to study the Indian context. Same time we are supposed to do the market analysis for parallel products and available products in market. Case studies of patients, doctors and home nurses are also to be arranged by Soumitri.
Meanwhile Soumitri also briefed about the project to us, he explained about the types of diabetes. The cause, effect and the need of the product design intervention in the area of diabetes. He gave us some products and showed some nice journals done by the previous students.
To end up the session, Soumitri showed us the way to set up a blog and the best use of You tube and flickr.
