15 September 2015
Other ideas and sketches
First idea: Washing machines powered by bicycles are already considered “DIY” technology in poor countries and eco-villages, however it remains a niche solution, seen as a “remedy for the poor”, which most of the people wouldn’t allow in their luxurious houses, therefore, I thought about adding a simple element which would make it more fun and probably accepted by more…
11 September 2015
Found instructions for the wheel
Quite overwhelmed with the new size of the project, which I don’t particularly like as I simply don’t like to build (in my opinion a designer is not a carpenter), I did the first thing I always do when I don’t know how to do something, I googled “How to build a human-size hamster wheel?” and guess what? I literally…
10 September 2015
Human-sized hamster wheel
After the dissertation, as I mentioned in a previous post, the last big task is to realise a final project related to the thesis, which will be exposed to the public in The Well Gallery at London College of Communication from the 6th till the 8th of November 2015. After weeks of indecision on what to do for it, today…
13 August 2015
Persuasive games
As I reported in a previous post, Ian Bogost is one of the main opponent to the theory of gamification, claiming that this practice is an impoverishment of games, which are actually a powerful tool to influence and to persuade people. In his book Persuasive Games he talks about videogames completely in a new and enlightening way. He describes why…
6 August 2015
First 2 chapters in 15800 words, way too long!
Here is a draft of the first two chapters, it’s just a lot of materials I found online and on papers and books, but it’s way too long for a dissertation which must be 5000 words long overall. I’ll have to do a big trimming work. 1st CHAPTER – EMERGENCY OF CLIMATE CHANGE 1.1. Climate change should unify everyone. “The…
3 August 2015
Worrying data on climate change
To back up my thesis I had a look to some data which show how bad the situation for our environment currently is. The NASA website on climate change offers a good and clear insight. To sum up, here I listed the main statistics. The level of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the air has risen of +400.47 parts per million,…
25 July 2015
Thesis Draft feedbacks
From last Friday tutorial I got the feedbacks for my thesis draft and honestly they are not bad at all. Overall the research is moving in the right direction, but I should be more critical, especially in the first chapter where I talk about the emergency of climate change. There I shouldn’t take anything for granted, but critically reflect on…
15 July 2015
1st Thesis draft
For my first thesis draft I divided the thesis in 4 chapter and assigned an estimated number of words for each one of those. 1st Chapter – Emergency of climate change 2nd Chapter – Design for sustainability 3rd Chapter – How to influence people? Challenges or games? 4th Chapter – The end justify the means Introduction How can we incentivise…
7 July 2015
Against gamification
Just when I started to be more convinced about the effectiveness and potentials of gamification, I read the text of John Ferrara Games for Persuasion: Argumentation, Procedurality, and the Lie of Gamification, where he express his opinion against gamification, describing it as a deprivation of games. Although, in the beginning I was a bit adverse to his theory, as simply…
5 July 2015
Deterding – defining gamification
After an introduction to gamification and having read many of the definitions, I started analysing this concept more critically and in depth and to do so I found a series of research papers on the e-library portal of the UAL  (I’ve been honestly pleasantly surprise by the amount of papers available there). One of the most influential and interesting researcher…

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