Sustainable Design students projects at Unistmo
Sustainable Design students projects at Unistmo from Industrial Designer ...
Sustainable Design students projects at Unistmo

Sustainable Design project developed by students under my guidance at the "Sustainable Design" Semester at Unistmo, Universidad del Istmo, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México.
I applied the concept of "Social Design":
-What material resources exist at the community?
-What intellectual resouces exist at the community?
-How to develop a low-technology device to address issues related to water supply, agricultural, food processing and packaging?
The idea was to transform design students in "agents of social impact through design" fostering the idea of going beyond design.
Projects were developed for users of Oaxaca, a state in Mexico with strong indigenous presence and culture, that demanded solutions for their daily life with low technology and simple building.
Design has to be thinking for the "greater good" always. Design is no longer about manufacturing and consumption only, is about creating and providing better education, health, sanitation, housing together with other professions.

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Student Jorge Antonio - Machine to cut and storage cereal. Scale model of a machine to cut and storage of local cereal know as ajonjoli. Cut and processing is hand-made allocating time and physical effort with low productivity. The goal of the project is to optimize cutting with a frontal blade and storage, as the cereal remains in the circular walls of the machine itself. Design optimizing local needs in a mexican agricultural community in Oaxaca.
Machine to cut and storage cereal (Ajonjoli) Second scale model proposed by student.
First wood prototype of the Machine from student Jorge Antonio. Optimized several aspects of the previous scale models. Front blade to cut ajonjoli and flexible wall around to storage the ajonjoli. Low-technology machine, blade is activated by the movement of the wheels and as the agricultor walks in the field, plantation is cutted and stored at the same machine.
Wood prototype
Top view of cutting mechanism (blade) at wood prototype.
Design Professor at Unistmo, Universidad del Istmo, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México.
Student Angel Luis - Box to store and transport Totopos. Totopos - Big Tortillas are a very common food in the mexican istmo. Made of corn, they are very fragile and dont´have a proper packaking. This deficiency brings economic - transportation - health issues. Student Angel Luis made a brilliant design proposal. Once again, Design is here to optimize very local and cultural issues at the mexican Istmo.
Totopo´s packaging - open view. Local economy have several issues with food transportation, health and sanitation.
Student Rodolfo Sanchez - Contemporary Iztamal Kiln Iztamal is a tortilla made of corn in traditional clay kiln at the city of Juchitan. However, this traditional manner brings issues of health, due to the heat needed to cook the Iztamal. Also the kiln is not thought to be ergonomic. Rodolfo Sanchez´s great design modernize the clay kiln and bring a series of benefits, such as heat can be used at the top to cook other food, no danger of heat burning at hands and arms, safer kiln, iztamal can be handled easier due to metalic trays.
Contemporary Iztamal Kiln
Student Yamirsa Martines - Coconut Opener Coconut is a typical food and founded at all places. However, the coconut is still opened with a large and dangerous blade. This system requires a high degree of expertise, training and physical force. The student proposal allows other users, such as children and women to safely open the coconuts at the market or at home. Universal design project.
Student Francisco Heriberto - Mechanical Water extractor Istmo is an agricultural zone and as such, suffers from water issues. Unistmo´s student proposes a mechanical water extractor to be used at local water wells in an unexpensive way, not requirement expensive and big extractions machines. The same water´s weight and gravity would move the machine allowing water to go to the surface.
Mechanical Machine for Water Extraction.
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Sustainable Design students projects at Unistmo

Sustainable Design project developed by students under my guidance at the "Sustainable Design" Semester at Unistmo, Universidad del Istmo, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México.
I applied the concept of "Social Design":
-What material resources exist at the community?
-What intellectual resouces exist at the community?
-How to develop a low-technology device to address issues related to water supply, agricultural, food processing and packaging?
The idea was to transform design students in "agents of social impact through design" fostering the idea of going beyond design.
Projects were developed for users of Oaxaca, a state in Mexico with strong indigenous presence and culture, that demanded solutions for their daily life with low technology and simple building.
Design has to be thinking for the "greater good" always. Design is no longer about manufacturing and consumption only, is about creating and providing better education, health, sanitation, housing together with other professions.

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