Leslie Friesen (College of Art) and Thad Druffle (Speed School/Conn Center) and have collaborated once again on a class integrating engineering and art/design. This one is “Co-Creation/Industrial Design” and the student teams’ final presentations for innovations in rainwater capture & storage are at UofL this Thursday April 28th @ 5:30pm.

The class concept was covered in Insider Louisville and IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) … and you can read more about it here:

• New U of L course links art and engineering for Industrial Design Co-Creation
• IDSA Members Teach First ID Class at University of Louisville

Location

Speed Engineering Garage (connected to FirstBuild)

Schedule

Arrive promptly by 5:30, estimate 1.5 – 2 hrs duration.

Agenda:

• Welcome …
  • to understand the context of the course guest instructors Jarvis Ward and Walter Hargrove will briefly review their (5) week segments.
  • Jarvis Ward, senior industrial design manager at GE Appliances
  • Walter Hargrove, director of Product Development at Brown Jordan

• Overview
  • Leslie Friesen will give a brief overview of why the Course exists, its goals, objective(s), aspirations and future direction.

• Start Student/Team Presentations:
  • Team 1, H20 Reclamation: Rainwater capture, collection, cleaning and re-distribution utilizing a clever venturi effect valve leveraging water pressure to supplement H2O inflow powered by an off-the-grid storage and supply system.
  • Team 2, RainWater Collection System (We Love H2O): Rain/Storm water capture, with multiple levels (pun intended) of imaginative and unique collection for long term storage designed for year-round best-use of potable water.
  • Team 3, RainWater Harvest: Roof & Driveway/Parking Rain/Storm water capture, Team 3 has designed a unique, modular long-term storage system approach to architecturally integrate the traditional “homeowner” rain barrel, allowing placement options, greater storage capacity and custom volume sizing.