Lab+5

Bodystorming is the same concept of brainstorming except you use your body instead. It is a most physical experience of brainstorming. This process allows for people to figure things out with the use of their own bodies. People are told to go out and explore in order to figure out a plan for an invention. This allows people to develop ideas to fit the real world instead of simply just discussing them, bodystorming allows for a process to go out and test ideas in society to see how they work within the real world.

There are three steps to bodystorming. The first is to go out and observe. This step gives the creator inspiration and ideas on what to create. It is important for bodystormers to blend in with the surroundings of their project and think of themselves as someone involved in the atmosphere they are trying to improve so they may know firsthand what needs to be done to better things. An example of this would be someone who wants to make the mall a more efficient place, they would have to visit a couple of malls and observe their surroundings, they would have to take the role of a shopper and think about ideas on how to make their experience a more efficient one.

The next step is to try it out. This step requires the use of role play and imagination to act out situations and come up with ideas to fix them. This process allows for different inputs, it’s a creative process to bring forth ideas. The final step is to reflect on the positive and negative ideas that were derived from the previous step. By engaging in an activity physically and putting yourself in a situation to act out an idea, it is very easy for the bodystormers to understand what works well and what does not. Through this process of elimination they will focus on the ideas that best work to better certain issues. Citation Gray Dave, Oct15th, 2010, online at: [] on Feb 6th, 2010.

__ Design of Medicine Bottle __

By: Melissa Stepanians and Anam Khan

The design of the medicine bottle is made to conform to the needs of an elderly woman who is partially blind and deaf and also suffers from pain in her joints due to arthritis. The design for the bottle we have made is one inspired by a food dispenser for birds. One the elderly person takes a pill which is dispensed into a small container another one comes out for the next time she needs medication. This medicine bottle is made to stick to the wall, far away from the reach of children but perfect enough to be able to feel on the wall since she cannot see very well. It will always be on the same spot on the wall, she can even stick to a bathroom mirror so she may be able to feel her way on the wall and find her medicine which will dispense for her so she does not have to use her joints to open a bottle.