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As part of my second year optional module (Sustainability), we were given a live brief..
“TOTORABAMBA, Peru – Smoke swirls around the hearth and hangs in the sunny doorway of the adobe kitchen where Espirita Lima Bautista crouches by an open fire, toasting barley grains. Soot dangles from the thatch roof in six-inch stalactites, a grim reminder of the particles she inhales whenever she cooks.
For this 80-year-old grandmother, breathing while cooking for an hour, is like inhaling the second-hand soot of 400 cigarettes. Although it only lasts as long as the meal is being prepared, exposure began when she was a baby, slung in a blanket over her mother’s back.”
The brief... to design a solution to the current problem in Peru, where fire is being started using plastic bags. Plastic bags are free and come in abundance, but leads to the death of young children inhaling poisonous gasses.
Working with Dr. Chris Mattson as head of project and mentor.