Green Packaging

Green packaging

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؜Functional Storage

Why Green Packaging?

SPRINT BRIEF

In the “Green Packaging” sprint, you will dive into the world of sustainable packaging through hands-on experimentation and creative problem-solving.

You will explore eco-friendly materials, folding systems, and transformable structures through the creation of a creative Iftar package.

You will be creating an overall Iftar package and individual packages for 5 foods that go within.

These packages should be beautiful and functional.

WHAT WE ARE MAKING

WHY WE ARE MAKING IT

You will design and build transformable, eco-friendly packaging through hands-on prototyping.

To explore sustainability, creativity, and responsible innovation.

Final Project Expectations

You will create a functional packaging prototype for a Ramadan Iftar

You will document and present your design process and material choices.

Your final design must use sustainable materials and allow reuse or transformation.

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Studio Skills

Collaboration

Concept Development

Lo-Fi Prototyping

Product Design

Packaging Design

Empathy

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Student Examples

Real World Examples: Sustainable Creative Packaging

Picnic-style to-go box

Cookie box that looks like oven

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؜Paper alternative to plastic soy sauce holder

؜TV box packaging that converts to rocking horse for kids

Real World Examples: Innovative Reusable Packaging

؜Challenge Question:

How can we make functional, sustainable, and elegant packaging?

The design process will include these steps:

Brainstorming

Intro Activity

A good example of signals are "the launch of chatGPT" or "the fall of the iconic tunnel tree redwood" and good examples of drivers would be "artificial intelligence" or "climate change"

Then, identify signals (glimpses of the future we already see today) and drivers (what made the signal possible)

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Assemble a pre-designed packaging template by folding and connecting parts to understand structure and transformation.

You will select a product and explore how its packaging can become useful. Then, sketch initial concepts and share out.

SPRINT STEPS

؜Low-Fidelity Prototyping

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؜60 min

Get in pairs. Build a paper/cardboard prototype to test form, folding, and usability, while exploring elegant patterns and designs on the exterior of the forms.

High-Fidelity Prototyping

؜120 min

؜In small groups, provide one another with feedback on how to improve the form and the functionality of the packaging designs. Improve based on feedback using available (sustainable) materials and making the final product more elegant.

Final Presentation Prep

؜60 min

Refine the prototype and prepare a clear presentation explaining the concept, transformation, and sustainability goals.

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؜Model Food Creation

؜30 mins

؜Create small versions of the food to include in your iftar.

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Week 4

Week 7

Week 5-6

ACTIVITY MATERIALS

؜Printed Templates

Week 2

1st

Intro Activity

؜Download the attached templates on computer paper or (ideally) a light cardstock.

Cut the outlines and fold the patterns to make 3-dimensional shapes. Use gluestick and fold the tabs in to attach.

Make at least 2 different 3D shapes.

Discuss as a class how the 2D templates relate to the final 3D shapes.

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ACTIVITY MATERIALS

Week 3

2nd

؜Think of what you'd like to include in an Iftar package. If you were to offer this package for donation, what would you like to include,

Using paper or cardboard, make 2 examples of the foods you would package in your Iftar.

Create the Iftar Contents

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Brainstorming

؜From the food items made in the previous step, will choose 3-5 food items to include in an Iftar package you would wish to share with those less fortunate than you.

Then explore 2 unique ways you could package these items, so that the individual food packages and overall package (that you carry) could be beautiful, sustainable, and functional.

Quickly, sketch these initial concepts and then share in small groups.

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ACTIVITY MATERIALS

Cardboard

Paper/Cardstock

Zip-ties

Straws

Metal Ruler

Pencil

Markers

Cutting Blade

Masking Tape

Glue Stick

Hot Glue Gun

String

Brads

Wooden skewers

Laptop/Ipad

Week 4-6

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Low-Fidelity Prototyping

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Get in pairs. From your ideas, select a package design you both are interested in creating. Sketch that idea.
Write a 1-2 sentence description of what it will contain. What is innovative about the design? What the exterior will look like?
Build two full-scale paper prototypes to test form, folding, and usability.

FEEDBACK + ITERATION

Teachers are going to move around the class and give feedback to each group!

Make sure you have your research, sketches, and prototype.

During this time, also meet with at least one other group to get feedback from them as well.

Kinds of Feedback

There are three forms of feedback. Understanding these can help us understand the conversations we have with our teams and improve our own ability to react to and use feedback to strengthen our designs.

Reaction-Based

Feedback

Direction-Based

Feedback

Question-based Feedback

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High-Fidelity Prototyping

؜ Improve based on feedback using available (sustainable) materials and making the final product more elegant.

Visit the next slide for resources to make more advanced 3D packaging shapes

Advanced 3D Geometry Resources

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؜Custom Netting

Visit the Toolbox and follow the Netting: 2D to 3D Form-Making tutorial on how to make custom 3D shapes.

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Visit www.templatemaker.nl/en/

؜Template Maker

Those sites allows you to customize and print advanced 3D shapes.

https://www.pacdora.com/dielines

Laser Cutting

You will download the files as svg online, or head to your xtool software to draw the form. Once the software is open, import your drawing, make sure to have your cut/scoring lines in different colors. We will refer to the toolbox for detailed tutorial.

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ACTIVITY MATERIALS

Week 7

Devices to prepare presentations

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Final Presentation Prep

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Finish your packaging prototype
Take pictures and/or video of it opening and closing.
Prepare a clear short presentation explaining the ideas behind your Iftar package design.

Photo of Project

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First Prototype (testing)

Concept Idea

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Sketch

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Final prototype Video

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