Enhance By Raw Natural Material
2017-12-31I have been thinking about this for a while and it would be cool to see a different kind of product design. Products, like a backpack or bike, that are made in a way that they need the addition of Raw Natural Materials. To make an example. You could buy a backpack in the store and it would need you to go out and find branches to put into the sloths for the creation of the frame. It would also require you to stuff in padding in several areas. One could use dried grasses or mosses.
There are a few characteristics that would go hand in with this.
skill
These products could require some degree of skill, or knowledge of the natural world. Example: knife handling so one can trim the branches for the frame.
caring
These products are not to be made in a way they last forever. They are made in a way they last a very long time if taken care of. One is inclined to nurture such a product and with doing so building an (emotional) relationship with it.
Many of today's products use materials, like plastic, that are meant to last. It is harder to nurture such a product and most of them would not even benefit from it.
return with no burden
Discarded modern products tend to be are a burden to Nature. Once they are not used anymore, the very effort that made those materials last forever, becomes a burden.
The product returns back to the Earth without any need of human interaction. No need for recycling, the energy used for the whole recycling process can be used to nurture your personal products into health instead. They are products that are unable to pollute the Earth as they would simply return back to the earth.
enhanced return
Products that do return to Earth could be actually be beneficial. In corporate seeds, minerals,… in the design for example.
independance & DIY
These products can be fixed and altered by yourself.
no warranty
Because I find the idea of warranty is nonsensical. I can explain why another time.