WEEK 1

This subject is looking at waste management and how designers can play a crucial part in solving waste issues and can help reduce Sydney's waste. We started off by forming into groups of 5 which saw me in a group of 5 students with all of the 4 being interdisciplinary students. I think we will work well as a group because there is a mix in perspectives. Plus some people will be stronger at doing certain tasks along the way then other people due to their studies. So my group members involve Visual Communications students- Queena and Rainie, Fashion student Courtney and Industrial student Vanessa.
Each group was allocated in a kind of first in best dressed way and luckily we were able to get the location that we wanted in Pyrmont/Ultimo. I love the area and am often there so I found that I would be alot more comfortable in going there often then say Redfern. In selecting Pyrmont we were also required to pick a street and so everyone got out their Iphones and were able to check almost instantly and decide upon streets they would do. I decided on looking at Pyrmont street and Point Street. These streets I knew had character with from memory small cafes, bars, restaurants and Star City Casino which I knew would be interesting to look at. For next lesson we should gather information about the sorts of waste that would be generated on these streets and then once we put our information together we develop a 'waste snapshot' of the area to help understand demographics, lifestyle and most importantly the waste and types of waste that is produced.

Some images taken from trip to Pyrmont street and Point street: