Our Big Idea: Anti-Tobacco: Inhaling Carcinogen ATIC
Features of ATIC
Main body> Transparent, shape of a human head with a wide opened mouth.
Several ATIC structures will be placed randomly around the popular smoking area of OCAD.
Material Used> Automend: Automated Self Repairing Plastic
Funnel Mouth to allow ash and buds to fall and prevent less fumes to leak out.
Notch and small door at the bottom of the structure (emptying out sand and buds)
Light bulb inside (placed at the bottom structure where the inside plate is slanted) which provides heat and light. Example: Lizard light, which heats plastic that allows the plastic to heal itself and provides light for display reason.
Carcinogen filtering system placed in the “head” part of the structure.
1) Our Target audience -- smokers, OCAD students (ages 18-25)
2) Goals of ATIC:
- to encourage students to throw cig. buds into our new ATIC ashtray.
- to visually let the smokers aware of the harm that smoking may cause and try to encourage them to smoke less. (ex: the amount of cigarettes smoked per day displayed through our transparent structure will disgust smokers and allow them to smoke less --Guerilla Approach)
- to convert carcinogen and other toxic chemicals (from cigarettes) into oxygen and clean air.
- to make OCAD into more artsy and innovative place through this sculpture-like installment.
3) The first time installment cost would be expensive but maintenance would be cheap as only sand will be replaced daily and would be the only cost.
4) couple of these structures will be placed randomly in popular public smoking areas nearby OCAD. we will publicly promote this new innovative structure.
The basic function & material of this structure are:
- transparent plastic of self-healing plastic called Automend that will repair itself when heated. This material will last much longer than normal plastic and would produce less waste as instead of throwing out the damaged structure it will just repair itself.
- Funnel opening allows cig. butts to slide and enter the structure but allowing the smoke to stay inside the structure so it doesn't release as much toxin into the air.
- Sand is to diffuse the cigar if it isn't already diffused.
- Hatch to open an empty out the sand and cigar and simply re-pour sand through the mouth.
- light bulb inside bottom that in under a slanting platform and produces heat that allows the plastic to heal. The lights will turn on every night and if there is a crack it will heal and will illuminate the structure.
THANK YOU~
- Danbee and Ayumi
2 comments:
This suggestion fails to meet any of its conceived goals. In fact doesn't achieve any positive or beneficial ends, except perhaps as listed the goal to convert carcinogen and other toxic chemicals (from cigarettes) into oxygen and clean air. My technical knowledge of the possibility of this goal is lacking and so I could not say that its attainable or not.
There are a lot of other ways to decorate the school in a positive way to encourage none smoking though motivation.
People will not smoke less because of how gross these structures will look. People will only ignore them and walk in a different direction because they are scary and a reminder of something they probably want to deny.
People do not smoke because they don't know how damaging it is.
Lets focus on making OCAD a more beautiful place.
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