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S'Proud is a product service-system which enables its users to start composting organic scraps at home and encourages them to co-create commons at a neighbourhood scale, by growing vegetables and plants in the neighbourhood gardens
1. The Opportunity
The topic of the studio was “HOMES FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES" which focused on how to design product-service system solutions for a very uncertain and unpredictable future. The context was the state of California in the year 2036.
Our group focused the project on the adverse effects of climate change on people's psychosocial wellbeing. Stats show that 1 in 6 people in California suffer from mental illnesses, and 12% of teenagers have depression. The mental healthcare system is broken and the number of healthcare professionals are constantly dropping. We foresaw intervening at the stage before a person’s mental health reaches extreme adversities. Therefore, we wanted to look at the general mental wellbeing of people and build their psychosocial resilience to help them cope with adversities.
2. The Process
After a thorough desk research on California and climate change, we proceeded by doing in-depth interviews with people who were living in California at the time to get an understanding of how uncertain times like the pandemic as well as climate change in the form of bushfires had affected them. Did it change their idea of what home is and what they want it to be? We defined a scenario for California in 2036 using the data and came up with our concept.
Insight
There was a strong sense of how keeping in touch with people, maintaining social connections or finding new ones during times of distress, fear, confinement in homes or future uncertainty were essential for them. It helped them cope-up in these moments. A collective psychosocial wellbeing adds to an individual’s personal growth curve, positive functioning and resilience.
Scenario
The scenario we framed "Come-unity" directly responded to our main insight. It primarily addresses migrant people/ families, ageing adults and young adults who would be most prone to environmental and/or economic adversities.
How may we activate individuals and facilitate social bonding to build psychosocial resilience to cope better in case of climate related adversities or other changes?
3. The Concept
Studies show that individuals in a healthy, socially-connected community have greater overall resilience and withstand the psychological impact related to natural disasters better. Efforts aimed at improving communication and working together to solve day-to-day problems may increase community preparedness in the face of climate change.
S'Proud is a product service-system which enables its users to start composting organic scraps at home and encourages them to co-create commons at a neighbourhood scale- by growing vegetables and plants in the neighbourhood gardens. These gardens are curated and managed by S’proud (the organization). The collective action of participating in growing vegetables and plants in the community garden strengthens the community and its resilience. It activates individuals by creating opportunities for physical activity driven by the motivation to have improved nutrition. Studies show that growing and tending to plants significantly helps in reducing stress - catering to better mental wellbeing and enhanced psychosocial resilience.
4. The Product
S'Proudy is a composting kit that makes the process of composting at home easy, flawless and enjoyable.
It is not just another compost bin hidden under the kitchen sink, it is something that you can flaunt in your home. This completely changes the perception and meaning of how compost bins are supposed to be. It can be placed in your kitchen, living room, balconies or any place of your choice. It is easy to carry, does not smell, is 100% biodegrable (made out of pulp paper) and has a charming presence.
How it works
5. The Service System
We envision the system and service associated with S’Proudy to give our customers an organized system to begin composting organic scraps at home, a tailored user experience of growing organic vegetables at the community grow spot, and participate in reforestation drives to contribute for a healthier and greener California.
6. The System Map
The larger system of our PSS has three main elements: S’PROUDY (the product), Collection Spot and Grow Spot.
The User can subscribe to S’PROUDY, grow spot or both. The filled S’PROUDY can be replaced with a fresh one at the Collection spot.
S’proud completes the process of composting, which is then used at the Grow Spot and given to organizations that do reforestation drives.
7. The Grow Spot
8. The Service
S'Proudy Service
The User gets a fresh S’PROUDY on subscription. After discarding kitchen scraps into the container and starting the process of composting, the User gives the filled container to S’PROUD at the Collection Spot and gets a fresh S’PROUDY in return.
Grow Spot Service
The User can grow and/or pluck veggies and plants at the community garden space in the grow spot. They can also rent a private space (read: Patch) to grow their own veggies and plants. The compost that users help make is readily available at the grow spot to start planting.
9. The Business Model Canvas
10. Outcomes
Website
App Mockups
Final Video
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The Team
Bianca, Prathana, Simone,Valeria, Amarinder
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