On Day One we put our heads together to tackle the issue of pollution in the San Marcos river. We compiled our assumptions of Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How the issue developed. As a team we came up with the following assumptions:Contaminated/polluted river and water systems are affecting human & animal health.Political resistance/obstacles […]
First meeting.
First unofficial meeting, pitching DFA and going over important dates.
HEYO! Can’t believe this was our last meeting before the expo! What a great and productive meeting to start wrapping things up for Wednesday. We started the meeting by recapping with the team and each committee to see what still needs to happen. Once we were all on the same page, we had to get going […]
HEYO! Wow, what a crazy week! With prototype meetings, expo meetings, video meetings, and more, we’re sure keeping busy. Our expo is quickly approaching (UAC May 1st from 5–8pm) and we have a lot to get done before then. Our expo is getting a lot of attention by our peers, faculty, and community, which is just […]
HEYO! It’s officially crunch time here in the TXState DFA studio. With a few meetings over the week, we’ve started laying out plans for prototyping, testing, and our end of the semester exhibition event. The event team has been hard at work getting a date, time, and location for our event, which will be in […]
HEYO! This week we all got together to share what we came up with during our numerous ideation meeting during the week. Some ideas where wacky while others seemed impossible to achieve but they were all part of the process. From there we further condensed our ideas, picked our favorite and started prototyping! It was […]
HEYO! After a well deserved break, our team has come back stronger than ever! With three key categories of insight (transportation, community, and communication) identified during the Re-framing phase, we were able to compile HMW (How Might We) statements based on all of the research compiled thus far. These HMW’s were placed on a scale […]
HEYO! In preparation for Spring Break we had a shorter meeting this week. We are continuing the Reframe step, and during this meeting we reviewed our secondary research, as well as the primary research our Outreach team and other members have been collecting with our community partners. We discussed this information and made some good […]
HEYO! We are happy to announce that Reframing has begun!!! In the next couple of weeks we will be able to start ideating. It has been a long journey but we are excited to see where our research will take us. Thanks to our Outreach team we were able to gain great insight on the struggles […]