No Trespassing

The purpose of this action project was to introduce “No Trespassing”  to my neighborhood because it is done everyday and i want to change that by stopping the violence as one with people outside of my home so that way they know that trespassing is not good and can make people their unsafe in their own homes and work together to stop it because it is a highly risk of getting hurt or even killed.

A way that people that know about this is by..

-Flyers

-Introducing the issue with people outside.

-Sharing a post with online sources.

-Talking to people that would like to help also.

The reason why I chose this issue “Trespassing” was because this was happening in my neighborhood and i thought it should stop because it’s bringing more violence and it think its a huge risk for a lot of people outside and and can make things unsafe or make people think that it’s unsafe to be in your own house. Trespassing because its non-stop being done in my neighborhood and this why I created this flyer to let people know that this is getting out of control and we should make a change and help out our community. The flyer I made was to make people think its important and make this a conversation with family and friends and spread the message so that way people can be aware of what is going on in the city of Chicago.

What I did was I printed out 20 copies of the flyers that I created and I went home I had a friend take pictures of me posting my flyers onto the poles around my street and me passing flyers to people and explaining how it’s bad and how we should make a change in our neighborhood and stop the violence together.

Pot-Bellied Badger

The purpose of this action project is to choose an animal and create a design from the animal you chose.Therefore, I created a collage to show humans the special and cool things we can learn from the honey badger's body. I focus on its skin and stomach to inspire a new design of a stove for humans. I am most proud of my collage because it took me a long time to create. I learned about the animal itself, and will remember most the amazing fact that it can literally eat poison and survive.

JR (2013) Pot-Bellied Badgers. Collage, magazine on paper. GCE Voices Blog: Chicago.

The Animal: Honey Badger

In researching this animal, I learned several interesting facts: honey badgers have very strong claws, little hinged legs, and they hunt together during their breeding season in May. Out of my research, I also found the honey badger has several cool adaptations which humans could learn from and apply to solve design problems.

First, its skin is TOUGH & LOOSE. When a bee stings or when a snake tries to bite the honey badger, its skin protects the animal from serious harm. This means the badger can access unique foods (like honey from a hive) which few other animals - even bigger animals - can.

Second, the honey badger's insides are as tough as its outsides. Its digestive system is STRONG enough to process the venom of snakes and the poison of insects it encounters in its life and eating. The honey badger, after eating venomous snakes (cobras, for example), stays in a coma for 2 hours after eating and then wakes up after venom has been digested. Afterward, its body is like normal.

The Design: Stove
What are the features/parts and the characteristics of traditional potbellied stoves?

The traditional potbellied stove characteristic is the fat man's pot belly which gets it name from "belly". The top of the pot belly stove is used to cook food and heat water.

Some Problems that the potbelly stove has is the top part which can burn someones hand or (etc.anything that touches the top because of no door no edges to keep from burning to keep hands from touching the sides of the potbelly which is hand freely.

What are 1-2 problems with traditional stoves as currently designed (get too hot? dangerous? can they not burn certain materials?)

Why are you interested in redesigning it?

I am interested in redesigning this because I feel that the honey badger is strong enough just as the potbelly stove itself. Also, because the way is built is kind of similar as the honey badger's Digestive system, like the belly it can hold lots and cook very strongly and honey badger's can survive through poison.
Explanation
How do the toughness and strength of the HB's skin and stomach help us think about better stoves?

Why a stove out of HB? Why not a car? pen?
The reason why i chose a stove was because since the stove is metal and metal is hard and strong to deal with than i chose it to describe the animal i picked out honey badger


The design that I created was a honey badger with a pot belly stove as the stomach because I think a pot belly stove is very strong and tough just as the honey badgers digestive system.

References (In MLA format)

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