D&T Presentation Boards

The way the D&T worked was each team was given a specific image of a social setting, and required to analyze the setting, remove the structure from the image, and design our own intervention to enhance and facilitate that setting. My team's image was of an elementary school classroom, where the kids were, as we decided, at the point of the day just prior to going out to the playground. It was this anticipatory period that we decided to key on, implementing some way to heighten and enhance the anticipation of going outside. Our proposal for how to do this was though the use of smell, being the most powerful of the senses, generating some sort of way to release smells of the outdoors with increasing intensity as the time grew near to go outside. There would be a floor with varying tiles of a new material called Aerogel,, which can absorb and store various types of particles. The idea was that the tiles would be infused with the scents, and heated from below to slowly release the scents into the air, which was then regulated by a series of air curtains from above. Then, as time elapsed, the air currents would change, allowing for the scents to permeate into the classroom at a natural dispersion rate. From this point, the scents would begin to lead the students outside due to their increasing intensity as they progressed out to the playground.