Watercalipse Duology
Water. Shutoff. Watercalipse.
Yesterday, I spent my afternoon filling all kinds of containers with water, from tupperwares to water pitches, from buckets to water filters, even small exercise bottles, you name it. Some were put in the fridge, some by the bathroom but on every small action I took, I thought about a future when this was the present reality. The possible 'what if' either by shortage, water rationing, or a chaotic event, all of them provided different scenarios that went through my head, and design strategies or products of course came to mind too.
What would I do to solve this? How about freezing it in small units for rationing? The consequences of living in Mexico would play out different from other cultures as water became a currency for kidnappings, water pipes guarded by the army, collapse or paying of bribes to keep businesses running, the slow end of the world as we know it. Yet the impact on a smaller, daily scale use was what rather, occupied my thoughts: boiling eggs or pasta, washing dishes, teeth, showering. Priorities of hydration, hierarchies of water consumption, young people first, animals or plants after? Would people take pictures and make angry posts of people using water to hydrate their pets? Use hashtags like: #WatertoHumansOnly or #WaterforAnimalsToo?
Meanwhile, water pipes, and bottled water companies are making huge amounts of money out of the shortage, them, and any kind of plastic container producer that vary in size: jugs, buckets, or water tanks.
These reflections only brings us to the following dystopic scenarios duology:
Yesterday, I spent my afternoon filling all kinds of containers with water, from tupperwares to water pitches, from buckets to water filters, even small exercise bottles, you name it. Some were put in the fridge, some by the bathroom but on every small action I took, I thought about a future when this was the present reality. The possible 'what if' either by shortage, water rationing, or a chaotic event, all of them provided different scenarios that went through my head, and design strategies or products of course came to mind too.
What would I do to solve this? How about freezing it in small units for rationing? The consequences of living in Mexico would play out different from other cultures as water became a currency for kidnappings, water pipes guarded by the army, collapse or paying of bribes to keep businesses running, the slow end of the world as we know it. Yet the impact on a smaller, daily scale use was what rather, occupied my thoughts: boiling eggs or pasta, washing dishes, teeth, showering. Priorities of hydration, hierarchies of water consumption, young people first, animals or plants after? Would people take pictures and make angry posts of people using water to hydrate their pets? Use hashtags like: #WatertoHumansOnly or #WaterforAnimalsToo?
Meanwhile, water pipes, and bottled water companies are making huge amounts of money out of the shortage, them, and any kind of plastic container producer that vary in size: jugs, buckets, or water tanks.
These reflections only brings us to the following dystopic scenarios duology:
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