MYP Design N19

Subject group and discipline: Design (design, digital design, product design) Unit duration: about 20 hours
Unit title: Design thinking to assist the vulnerable

Global context: Scientific and technical innovation

Key concept: Development
Related concept: Perspective
Statement of inquiry: Taking on client perspective leads to designing safe solutions
Inquiry questions such as these should be developed by teachers and students:
Factual: What makes us feel safe?
What risks do my target client/audience face?
What about their situation might make my target client/audience feel unsafe?
Conceptual: How can designers understand the needs of a client they cannot communicate with?
How can understanding the way our client will interact with the solution help us make better design choices?
Debatable: Do designers create better safety innovations than scientists?

Summative assessment
The student produces an ePortfolio that follows the design cycle to develop a solution (or range of solutions) which enables and/or improves safety for
their target audience’s situation.

Students must target one of the following audiences/clients:

 Homeless or displaced people
 Rescue workers
 People with physical or mental changes which have limited their movement

Suggested solutions may be, but are not limited to, the following ideas:
 Evacuation or rescue prototype
 Portable filter for liquid or air
 Assistive cane or device
 App or program to send regular safety tips for a situation
 Tracking device
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 High nutrition long shelf life emergency food

 Light-weight emergency garment

Please note:
 No specific exploration is mandated for this unit
 Issues in relation to safety could include, but are not limited to: natural disasters, manmade disasters, limiting physical or mental changes,
seasonal concerns or restrictions, malnutrition
 Homeless or displaced people could include as a result of manmade or natural disasters; rescue workers could include fireman, lifeguards,
medical, police, paramedics; and people with physical or mental changes that have limited their movement could include dementia sufferers,
amputees, para-sportsmen/women
 Stakeholder perspectives may be primary or secondary observations

Objectives: All strands of all objectives (A, B, C and D)

Summative assessment tasks, including assessment criteria: Evidence of summative assessment task strands for eAssessment:
Criterion A Within Criterion A the student selects a target audience/client from the
i. explain and justify the need for a solution to a problem for a options above and will analyse and inquire into:
specified client/target audience  the need for a solution
ii. identify and prioritize primary and secondary research needed to  primary and secondary research
develop a solution to the problem  existing safety solutions
iii. analyse a range of existing products that inspire a solution to the  a design brief which reflects the analysis of their research with
problem reference to the global context and statement of inquiry.
iv. develop a detailed design brief, which summarizes the analysis of
relevant research.

Criterion B Within Criterion B the student provides evidence of:

i. develop design specifications, which clearly states the success
criteria for the design of a solution
ii. develop a range of feasible design ideas, which can be correctly
interpreted by others
iii. present the chosen design and justify its selection
iv. develop accurate and detailed planning drawings/diagrams and
outline the requirements for the creation of the chosen solution.
 a detailed design specification
 a range of ideas or designs that consider the specifications
(examples of planning these solutions may include annotated
sketches/storyboards, accurate drawings/diagrams, aesthetic
considerations)
 the design chosen for development, along with justifications for its
selection
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 accurate and detailed drawings, diagrams and requirements.

Criterion C Within Criterion C the student produces evidence of:
i. construct a logical plan, which describes the efficient use of time  time limitations, resources and details of the necessary skills
and resources, sufficient for peers to be able to follow to create required to create the solution.
the solution  appropriate technical skills*
ii. demonstrate excellent technical skills when making the solution  development process and presentation of the final product*
iii. follow the plan to create the solution, which functions as intended  justification of changes made.
iv. fully justify changes made to the chosen design and plan when
making the solution *Please note URLs must not be submitted. Evidence of technical skills and of
the development of the solution will be one or more of the following:
 Audio
 Photographic (including screenshots)
 Video (including screencasts)
 Written

Criterion D Within Criterion D the student will:

i. design detailed and relevant testing methods, which generate
data, to measure the success of the solution
ii. critically evaluate the success of the solution against the design
specification
iii. explain how the solution could be improved
iv. explain the impact of the solution on the client/target audience.
 design authentic tests for the solution
 use the design specification to critically evaluate the success of the
solution
 explain how they could improve the product
 explain the impact the product has made on the selected
client/target audience.
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Resources

The following resources based on the global context are suggestions or starting points which may be used during the teaching of the unit. The list is
optional and for information. It is neither prescribed nor exhaustive. Schools should always satisfy themselves that the content of any suggested
resource is suitable for their own context.

Websites

The United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development

https://www.globalgoals.org/

16-Year-Old Kenneth Shinozuka’s Sock Sensor Could Be The Solution To Keeping Alzheimer’s Patients Safe From Wandering
https://www.inspiremore.com/16-year-old-kenneth-shinozukas-sock-sensor-could-be-the-solution-to-keeping-alzheimers-patients-safe-from-
wandering/

Airscape is an emergency product placed in hazardous areas.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/57918251/AIRSCAPE

College Student Invents “Water You Can Eat” After Dehydrated Grandma Goes To E.R.
https://www.inspiremore.com/lewis-hornby-jelly-drops/

Dementia: What assistive technology is available?

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-support/staying-independent/what-assistive-technology-available

Dragonball Z for Firemen

http://www.yankodesign.com/2014/08/27/dragonball-z-for-the-firemen/

From 3-D Printed Gills to AI Dolphin Dictionaries, These Innovations Could Make Us More Like Aquaman
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/from-3-d-printed-gills-to-ai-dolphin-dictionaries-these-innovations-could-make-us-more-like-aquaman-
180971108/
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Fusion Vision System [FVS] is an Augmented Reality Smart Visor System that could be attached to the firefighter helmet.
https://www.longanvision.com/

Granddaughter of Parkinson's patient invents 'smart' walking stick to help thousands of sufferers
https://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=3360

Life Slide
https://designawards.core77.com/Transportation/64377/LIFE-SLIDE

Life Triangle : A Life Raft With Triangular Shape Which Can’t Be Capsized by Waves
http://www.tuvie.com/life-triangle-a-life-raft-with-triangular-shape-which-cant-be-capsized-by-waves/

Night Loo - A safe toilet for women living in refugee camps

https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-US/2018/project/night-loo/

Nu Drip Saline Bag

http://www.lifestylezz.com/the-nu-drip-saline-bag-design-is-so-well-designed-in-such-a-blatantly-obvious-wa/

POD An affordable life-saving furniture for flooding.

https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2018/project/pod-3/

Quasi Mask for Firefighters

https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-US/2017/project/quasi-mask/

Re-Al 13 - Emergency Food Pack

https://www.behance.net/gallery/1039605/Re-Al-13-Emergency-Food-Pack

Recco – Avalanche Finder

https://www.behance.net/gallery/74502035/RECCO-Avalanche-Finder
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Rescue Tunnel
https://ifworlddesignguide.com/entry/116600-rescue-tunnel

Samarth is an assistive mechanism to provide an easy, safe and convenient way of shifting wheel chair users, from wheelchair to other mediums and
ease the life of care givers.
https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2018/project/samarth/

Shelter Cart
http://www.likecool.com/Shelter_Cart--Design--Gear.html

SOS Rocket
https://www.behance.net/gallery/32549741/SOS-Rocket

SurgiBox: Operating Theatre in a BackPack

https://www.surgibox.org/

TIDE: A menstrual toolkit developed for refugee women

https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/menstrual-toolkit-developed-refugee-women

UNICEF’s Clever LEGO-Inspired Bricks Provide Food, Water, and Shelter to Disaster Victims
https://inhabitat.com/unicefs-amazing-lego-inspired-bricks-carry-food-and-water-to-disaster-victims/?variation=a
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Unicef - nutrition and life saving food

https://www.unicef.org.uk/what-we-do/life-saving-food/

Water Mask Dispenser

http://asiadesignprize.com/exhibition/1885

WaytoB is a smartphone and smartwatch solution to enable people with intellectual disabilities (ID) to navigate by themselves
https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-US/2017/project/waytob-2/

Ted talks

Cheap, effective shelter for disaster relief

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_mcdaniel_cheap_effective_shelter_for_disaster_relief?language=en

Helping kids one text at a time

https://www.ted.com/talks/su_kahumbu_how_we_can_help_hungry_kids_one_text_at_a_time

How to make filthy water drinkable

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter?language=en