Down to earth design.

With an ever expanding population where connectivity is binding all societies together; the world is getting smaller. There remains fewer places to visit where we can find solitude. 

Camping, raids, and expeditions are an ever expanding leisure activity throughout the world. A growing number of people desire to 'get away from it all'. 

It is a means to escape for while and disconnect from the world. 

Some people desire to get even further away than others, to be totally alone and commune with nature. 

Although , at present, this activity is illegal within the 'Hexagon'; regulations are under revue to ease them and new infrastructures are being developed to allow controlled access to the wilder parts of France. 

This escape can also take place in more hostile environments, mountains, desert, the sea, jungle etc. 

This activity is becoming more and more popular ; a reflected form of 'The effect Bear Grylls'. 

Most people will NOT go these extremes of totally living off the land, so they will take the necessary provisions in order to survive. These necessities will consist primarily of water and food. Once these provisions are consumed, the question arises is....

What do with the containers, water bottles, plastic wrapping, tin cans etc that are required to for hermetic protection?...... Far away from any dustbin.

We have become used and reliant on infrastructures which developed society has put in place to provide basic amenities...... water, food, shelter, power, waste treatment etc.

All these requirements are reduced and condensed when one travels in wilder realms.

The project that I want to investigate this semester is to develop propositions and solutions to alleviate this ever growing phenomenon.
 We will explore the possibilities of compacting refuse, recycling on site, and new forms of storage etc especially developed for traveling in the wilderness. 

Also possible scenarios to encourage a change in mentality for certain individuals who love leaving empty beer bottles around an extinguished camp fire. 

My semester will be structured by an intense, but short, research phase followed by the idea phase with a bias towards production of numerous propositions by each student presented in the form of DRAWINGS.

Drawing is the primal form of communication. I will concentrate on the evolution of ideas from 'free hand drawing', 3d virtual development, to final Model stage.

I will also ask each student to develop their 3d skills, whether virtual or physical right from the genesis of the semester; so they can provide more accomplish results for the final presentation.

There will be a closer relationship with the 'Ateliers' put in place earlier in the semester to avoid the 'traffic jam' scenario which habitually arrives at the end of the semester.