Re-Designing Africa's Ox-Powered Farm Tools REMIX
Buying tractors or the fuel required to power them is far beyond the reach of most African small farmers. At the same time, they are tired from the energy draining attempt to raise their families bey
Hello, we are students in the 2009/10 Industrial Design class at The University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas USA. We are interested in applying socially directed design to make meaningful contributions to solving everyday problems faced by the majority of people in our world today. We are offering our collaboration as design students to contribute to this IDEA and assist in advancing its presentation or implementation in some way. Inspired by the problem statement posted we have ideas and questions we hope can be clarified by collaborative input from those of you who are experts in your field or have lived or observed the condition the IDEA intends to resolve. Here are some of the initial questions we would like some help with:
- What specific farm tools need to be re-designed?
- Why do those tools need to be re-designed?
- Should tool re-designs be focused more toward donkeys or oxen?
- What materials would be used and would they be readily available in the local communities?
Got a suggestion on how to make this idea even better?
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