Peddling from the apocolypse

The scenario is 1 week form now Melbourne will be unihabbitable. Furthermore other capital and regional cities are not communcating with us so we dont know the state they are in or whether we can simply relocate.

The Government is digging a trenche around melbourne as a barrier, it has steep sides and is thirty feet deep and fifty feet wide. We can get out with ladders but cars can not leave.

We have been told that in twelve months some relief will come we have to survive and maintain ourselves for this time independently of our current amenaties and convieniences.

John So has told us to be independent and free of infrastructure, to ride our bikes and get out of here. you have 1 week to prepare.

a/ Fleash out teh scenario.
b/ determine what you will need and who will be with you
c/ what will you design and how will you live in a mobile peddle powered world.

Some new develoments. A group of people tried to go to sea, it resulted in their demise. We must head inland. Also dont forget the refugees of melbourne are all exitting, we are obliged, by our humanity to accomodate members of society with reduded capacity, Blake cannot leave his grandmother and matts sister is eight months pregnent. How will we take care of such people.
Not all people are helpless Elias has a nephew who is eight years old, he has enrgy and is keen to help, but he is a child that must play and learn as we travel. He will nee to rest as we move and may need to sleep on the go.

linda cannot live without a shower at least once a week. For our mental health and sense of humanity we must accomodate hygine and cultual acts of significance. Bathing will require modesty for many people and toilets are a must on our journey. Given teh nutritional value of humanmanure we can use it to fertilise small farmlets we travel with.

SWOT Analysis
I have found SWOT Analysis to be a useful tool to review multiple options or project outcomes and combine the most desired attributes. It is a method used extensively in business and marketting so it is in common language for designers who are at the negotiating end of our practice.

In our case we will use it to evaluate the nomadic rooms of the week 2 Excercise.

For some further references google search SWOT Analysis (i even spelt it wrong and achieved the desired effect.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_Analysis

http://www.businessballs.com/swotanalysisfreetemplate.htm
This site has a free MS word template which we will be using.

Mindmapping is an exercise that helps to understand complex relationships and systems. it also helps to demystefy brainstormed ideas.

Cmap Tools is freeware that helps to collate ideas and work out problems available from http://cmap.ihmc.us/



In this software You are expected to include the questions that drive your enquiry (project) as links. I have found this is an excellent way to increase awareness of the alternatives to the answers i derive intuitively. When i have used questions to drive my inquiry then i have become far more creative in the that answers i provide. An answer driven project encourages me to get to the result quickly and effeiciently but without learning or exploration of the concept. In my time dedicated to learning I will always maximise teh opportunities to discover possibility In this way i will have maximum tacit creative knowledge at the time for "applied design".