THE PROBLEM
The consumer society, characterized by excessive consumption, has profound consequences, primarily resource shortages and environmental damage. This issue encompasses:
- Resource Depletion: Over-extraction of finite resources and a growing e-waste problem.
- Environmental Degradation: Pollution, deforestation, and climate change due to production and transportation.
- Waste Generation: Single-use culture leading to vast waste quantities.
- Resource Inequity: Global disparities and water stress due to overconsumption.
- Psychological Impact: Materialism and a throwaway mentality affecting well-being.
THE SOLUTION
Our solution to this problem was to create a website or web application in form of a sharing economy plattform to adress not only resource shortage but also to give small communites the opportunity to locally buy, sell or lend their belongings/products etc. This sharing economy plattform will be similar, almost a kind of hybrid to bigger websites like Facebook and Ebay, so it’s able to connect with local buyers/sellers and always see the newest post in your area.
TARGET GROUP/PERSONA etc.
THE IDEA (Design)
We worked on some designs ideas to bring this idea to life – this includes wireframes/mock-ups of the web application/website and also an app version of the plattform
Group members: Julius, Max, Patricia