?ebelino (Slurbee) | Rok Oblak
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?ebelino (Slurbee) is a ceramic drinking vessel for bees and other pollinators made of natural clay mixed with sawdust that provides a clean source of water for bees, essential for surviving the hot and dry summers. Glaze is made of construction waste material.
Project Details
- Does your design take social and cultural challenges and human wellbeing into consideration?
The shape and material mixtures as well as potion recipes are a fluid ever changing and updating data, similar to software development process. The data is collected through a participatory based platform where the information is collected from various parties, like beekepers, organisations, institutions and regular household users. But in a first place the design is a co-creation with the bees and other pollinators, where the users take an active role in their ecosystem and daily routine, learning about their lifestyle in co-habitation.
- Does your design support sustainable production, embodying circular or regenerative design practices?
The bottom line purpose is to keep the bee and other pollinators population high, consequentially high quality plants and garden produce yields. Users, like kids and urban citizens, who have less contact with pollinators and plants, learn about natural ecosystems and the essential role we have to improve the global warming effects like dry summers with hot temperatures have on pollinator populations. High aesthetic value plays a crucial role in attracting the users, like flowers attract the pollinators, to own a decorative object and place it in a visible space in the garden or balcony to actively water the product and observe the pollinators come and drink the potion, enjoying the scene on the everyday basis.
- Does your design use principles of distribution and open source?
The project is looking at modes how a product can be designed for bees with a help of AI, in terms of functionality as well as aesthetics and the designer as well as users are merely in service of the bees and their ecosystem. The shape itself will be freely accessible on the product website as an open source file, ready to be printed in clay, as clay 3D printers will soon be available in all major towns or cities. Also the material mixture recipe, potion recipes and making process will be shared online as well as usability experiences shared by all users on the product platform / website through a user generated forum.
- Does your design promote awareness of responsible design and consumption?
Besides the satisfactory benefits of enjoying the help for the bees, the users learn about the pollinators lifecycle and the ecosystem they actively participate. The package includes an educational booklet with all information regarding the crucial role pollinators play in our environment, how and when to feed them. Through careful observation, the users learn about their behaviour and how the environment (flora, fauna & the climate) changes through seasons. The website based forum will pull together all the enthusiasts to establish a conversation based on the usability and observation.
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