MX: URBAN GARDENING

MAKE LIKE A SEED AND GROW
1. finding a team member (Tammy Shell - YAY)
2. choose an activity/hobby to create a web space that will enhance that communities activity (Gardening - AWESOME!)
3. create a community model
4. create 2 posters (individual & community) that will fuel ideas for the creation of your system designed for this community
5. revise and edit
6. discover needs & create solutions to those needs
7. wireframe solutions to those needs

ROUND 1 OF POSTERS



REVISE FOR ROUND 2



CONCEPTUAL DESIGN:
Moving from research to ideas & solutions

NEEDS
1. finding gardening space
2. beginning tips
3. bug identification/ plant disease identification
4. tools (rain barrel)
5. volunteers (community & personal garden)
6. need expert advice
7. show off bounty
8. foraging - location
9. safe foraging - berries and mushrooms
10. surplus distribution
11. beautify the city
12. expert needs to publish his knowledge
13. identifying difference between amateur & expert
14. need to know what to do with bounty
15. if the soil is healthy/fertile & for types of plants
16. collaboration on local level


SOLUTIONS
1. personal/community/guerilla - GEOTAG IT
2. tools needed, plants in season, HAVES & WANTS
3. app-take pic-get identification RECOGNITION SOFT.
4. CROW SOURCE for tools
5. CALL to community
6. follow experts, ask questions
7. gallery/personal space/profile
8. GEOTAG - levels of caution/flag dangers
9. check peoples posts/flag
10. people can giveaway, trade excess
11. seed bomb tutorials
12. articles-online space to upload
13. tiered signup model - “most helpful”
14. canning, shared recipes, flower arranging, potpourrie
15. isoil tester - GEOTAG
16. allow for group making

RECENT COMMUNITY MODEL IMPROVEMENTS

Each one of these gardeners have their own personal life goals and historical background that they bring with them when they join any sort of community. They have their own reasons for gardening and this space is a way for them to connect, discover, and respond to others just like them. Each individual joins the circle at different levels of involvement which then expands and helps the community grow.



RECENT POSTER IMPROVEMENTS

Changes are still being made, but here are the two posters so far. We both appealed to the idea that when joining these two posters together they create one large visually interesting piece...that tells a story. Tammy had the great idea of including photography and basically creating a poetic feel to the posters. The hands below are sharing and providing enrichment to anothers life. More to come soon.