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For the 2014-15 Lille Design for Change Challenge, we were tasked to tackle the concept of "mass catering" in Lille, France. Our approach was to encourage citizens to drink tap water instead of expensive, wasteful bottled water.
Lake to Lille is a mobile, interactive exhibit that builds trust and pride in Lille city water by taking students through the journey of tap water “from lake, to Lille.” By involving primary school students in a model process of water collection, filtration, and distribution, Lake to Lille engages themes of sustainability, economics, and community health, and creates lifelong tap water drinkers.
My work in this project is mainly about logo design, app game design and story board in truck.
This work
Our Solution
We proposed the solution of Lake to Lille: a mobile, interactive exhibit that builds trust and pride in Lille water by taking primary school students through the journey of tap water “from lake, to Lille.” The exhibit, contained in two trailers, driven by a biodiesel-fuled truck, travels from school to school and becomes an out-of-the ordinary experience for students ages 6-11.
Once entering the exhibit, students travel through four rooms with playful, participatory exhibits that are metaphors for the stages of water treatment: (1) collection from nature, (2) extensive filtration in the treatment plant, (3) distribution through the city pipes, and (4) the many uses of water at home. Throughout the process, they discuss issues of sustainability, health, and why Lille tap water is of very high quality.
Collection
In the Collection phase, children enter from the rear door of the truck. They walk through a “lake” filled with balls that symbolically represent water. Blue balls signify clean water, while the purple, pink, yellow, and green balls represent impurities found in unfiltered water. Each set of colored balls is a different size.The students collect the water along with its “impurities” and bring it into the next stage, the “treatment plant.”
The tour guide invites small groups into the truck. The students walk in and are greeted with the ambiance of running water and chirping birds. A huge ball pit fills the floor space and kids proceed to walk through the ball pit gathering different colored and different sized balls that they have to put through the wall before they enter the next section, filtration. Blue,small balls represent water, while the balls that are are bigger and not blue represent the impurities found in the water.
After the kids symbolically collect the water, they enter the filtration room, where the kids begin to eliminate the different sized and colored balls by fitting the balls into circular holes. If the ball is too big for the hole, it is left behind. This process happens four times, and by the end, only the small blue balls that represent water are remaining. The remaining balls are put through another wall to arrive into the next section, transportation.
The kids slide into the distribution section, which will symbolize how the water gets from the water treatment plant into the homes, businesses, and schools that need the water. The sound of rushing water through pipes fills the compartment. Here, the kids place their water balls into a pump, in which they then have to physically pump the water balls up into the ceiling of the truck, where the homes are located. This can be seen as a competition between the students. Once they distribute all of the water balls using the pumps, they then enter the home section.
Kids then enter the kitchen of the home, which simulates a real kitchen. the fridge is full of goodies that are made using water, such as ice pops, and the kids receive their takeaways. Here, they get a ball shaped water bottle for their participation, as well as, a poster that they can hang in their rooms. The tour guide will then end the experience in this section and will direct the students toward the exit, which is also located in this section.