Andrea Santi - MDEF course
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  • Term 1
    • U.U \\Design Studio 01
      • \\Design Space
      • \\Prototype 4 David
      • \\1PP intervention
      • \\Collective design intervention
    • ^_^ \\The machine Paradox
    • =_0 \\Living with our own idea
    • "_" \\Extended Intelligences
    • *_* \\Design with others
    • °_° \\Biology 0
    • ù_ù \\Agricolture 0
    • !_! \\Digital Fabbrication
    • -.- \\Documenting Design
    • Design Dialogues 01
  • Term 2
    • U.U \\Design Studio 02
    • w_w \\Situated Design
    • £^_ \\Living materials
    • |"_"| \\Collective intelligence
    • °<" \\Communicating ideas
      • Project Description prompt
    • *-2\\H(n)machine
    • "_" \\Extended Intelligences 2
    • *-_ \\Micro challenges
    • Design Dialogues 02
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    • Design Studio 03
    • Micro Challange
  • Final projects
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Project Description prompt

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We're defining our final project and Pablo assigns us a goo exercise to focus and understand better what we wanna do and how we wanna explain that. Project and Narrative follow same path.

There you could find a talk with our dear Chat GPT, I ask at it this:

  • Start by asking me five thoughtful questions about my project, one at a time, in separate messages. Wait for my response to each question before asking the next one. These questions should aim to uncover important aspects of my project, such as its purpose, audience, uniqueness, impact, and practical details.

META-ETHICS 
Reform justice and society by a good vision of our surroundings. I mean if we are in a more responsible environment we would have more respect and take care of it. Like for example I discovered that here in Barcelona people take care and has clean urban space, not because they are lucky or something like that; but because some designer defined a trajectory and ethics while they were developing Barcelona urban’s area.    

NORMATIVE ETHICS 
No danger_ users has to feel safe to use this sabotage kit.
Convenience_ users will use this only if they are interested and this process is more convenient instead of a consumer process.
Kit_ A kit has to have roles and responsibilities, defined by the process for making all the artifacts 

APPLIED ETHICS 
If people use it, it would sabotage our society.This action (made/develope/define by me) hasn’t to create danger or politics/governance problem (jail).  Maybe people couldn’t understand my purpose and start act in a bad way (civil war?or something like that Idk). I have a lot of responsibilities, but I think that if I will design a critical trajectory and narratives, it wouldn’t been any problems.

SCENARIO 
A dystopian future to explain all the narratives, but I wanna design something to take action in the present (I think that a best reference could be “Big brother”). People probably couldn’t understand this design approach and believe I’m crazy, or maybe look at me like a terrorist as for example UNA bomber.

DEMOCRATIZE 
A way to bee more democratized is define a DIY process to follow while using the sabotage kit. Also I need to understand who’s gonna use this kit: technical citizens? Child ? young people? Old man/woman? 

TRANSPARENT 
I don’t have to force anyone, just let them make some effort. Like this they will understand the approach. I hope with these methodologies people could DIY artifacts and find out that isn’t a dangerous or strange way to live, instead they're gonna be more satisfied. 

COLLABORATIVE 
This sabotage kit has to create in you fire. It will be something that involves people to do that, express, make a community.

ACCOUNTABLE
I need to try before publications.

ACTANTS
Citizens 
Tools 
Arduino
Digital fabrication
Wood making 
DIY tools 
Book/Kit 
Process
Community 
Media 
Instagram
Radio 
Website 
Guerrilla / Ecoterrorism 

ACTANTS
Citizens 
Planet (heart healthy)
Coorporations 
Politics 
Nature 
Future citizens 
Knowledge  
  • Based on my answers, create a concise project definition, no longer than 1000 words, written in a friendly and easy-to-understand tone.

  • Once the project definition is complete, help me define my project’s purpose using Simon Sinek's Golden Circle framework:

  1. First, ask questions to clarify What the project does.

  2. Then, ask questions to understand How the project does it.

  3. Finally, ask questions to uncover Why the project exists.

Your Golden Circle Summary:

  • WHAT: A movement that provides a DIY process to help people transition to off-grid living through a manifesto, a sabotage kit, and an accessible, step-by-step guide.

  • HOW: By making the process simple, visual, and data-driven, engaging people through guerrilla marketing and a low-cost economic strategy, starting with young Europeans.

  • WHY: Because our world is being irreversibly destroyed, and instead of fixing broken systems, it’s time to destroy and rebuild. You want to create a functional, sustainable alternative to wasteful capitalism while expressing your love for hands-on design, radical prototyping, and underground aesthetics.

The final purpose statement should be no longer than a tweet (280 characters) and should clearly express the core inspiration behind the project.

"Destroy to rebuild. A DIY movement for young Europeans 
to escape wasteful systems and live consciously. 
Through radical design, guerrilla tactics, and hands-on creation, 
we empower people to prototype a new way of life—functional, underground
and truly free."

\\ Graphics

Just for have a fun exercise I tried to make some graphics with Chat GPT about this movement, I think they are good but at the same time I donìt feel to follow this work flow. It was an exercise just for have fun, discovered and experimentation.

I prompt some description about what it would be my outcome, principal key words were: BAUHAUS / DIY / DESTROY TO REBUILD / PLANET's CARE / HUMAN's BEING

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