The Horse 2021/22

Environment & Technology

Task 17: The world without humans

Effect/impact?

I want to make people aware of what a big impact we humans have on the world. This project is intended to give a deeper insight into how the world would develop without any human influence. What would happen to the houses/cars/streets/animals?

 

Methods/techniques/tools?

  • Survey with the students
  • Research on the Internet
  • Documentation on Youtube
  • Interviews with experts, if possible

 

What are the required steps for achieving the effect?

By interviewing different people and the surveys of students my project should get a good balance. This project should stimulate the readers to think and eventually some will begin to live more consciously and become aware of what people have done to the world.

 

Audience?

Teenagers as well as adults

Corona virus in Cuba and Switzerland

With whom do we want to build a collaboration?

With Savina’s aunt. She’s been living in Cuba for 8 years and knows the situation in the country pretty good. 

How so we want to build the collaboration?

We want to ask her about the current situation in Cuba with the corona virus and compare it to Switzerland. So we will create an interview and ask her the questions per skype or telephone.

Team: Savina&’Céline

Collaboration partners / concept

My goal is a collaboration across the United States and India / the middle east.

Since the project is about women who code/living as a digital nomad, I will defenitley contact my aunt, Eileen Brewer.
Maybe it would be interesting to chat with one of her students on how coding has changed their life.

I will simply text my aunt via Whatsapp and ask for a zoom meeting, so I can interview her.
I doubt that it would be possible to meet her in person (thanks to covid).

VV Project with Alina Collaboration Partner

Collaboration partner

We decided, that we want to collaborate with different people from all around the world for our project. We already have some ideas who our collaboration partners could be:

- Host family from Zimmi in Korea (Interview)

- Our friends and family

- classmates

- nutritionist (Prof. Dr. Christine Brombach)

We are now focusing on getting in touch with these people.

Zimmi und Celia

AI

Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Partner: Rémy

 

Konzept/Vorgehen:

 

Was ist die Wirkung, welche die Gruppe mit ihrer Aktion genau auslösen möchte? (effect/impact?)

 

  • Die Auswirkungen/ Vorteile / Mögliche Gefahren von AI ermitteln

 

Hauptaspekte --> Medizin, Bildung, Marketing/Finanzen, Agrarbewegung

 

Mit welchen Mitteln soll diese Wirkung erzielt werden? (methods/techniques/tools?)

Recherche von diversen Quellen

 

 

  • Podcast Diskussion über AI

 

Wie (mit welcher Strategie) soll diese Wirkung erzielt werden? (What are the required steps for achieving the effect?)

 

Eine sorgfältige Recherche von Quellen, bereits geführten Interviews mit Persönlichkeiten wie z.B. Elon Musk, Marc Zurckerberg… ect. Auswerten und Erkenntnisse reflektieren.

 

 

Wer ist das Zielpublikum? (audience?)

  • Eine Informatik / Wirtschaftlich interessierte Zielgruppe

Heart project: How ecological are electric cars

What exactly is the effect that the group wants to trigger with its action?

Electric cars are considered by society to be enormously environmentally friendly and energy efficient.

But we set out to find out whether this is really true or whether a conventional combustion engine is not so bad after all.

What are the means by which the intended effect is to be achieved?

Through research and a specialist, we will investigate this question and come to a conclusion with confidence. A work colleague works in the car industry and can give us even more details about electric cars

How is this effect to be achieved?

  • A few questions might be:

How harmful to the environment is the production compared to a gasoline engine?

How does it compare in use?

We also want to make comparisons with diagrams 

Who is the target audience?

Our project is open to all. We also want to address especially people who have not thought much about the impact of cars on the environment until now.

 

From Mario and Joel

in progress..

 

 

 

 

Task 17 - Heart Project

Topic: Corona virus in Cuba vs Switzerland

What effect do we want to achieve with our project?

We want to inform the people what impact the corona virus has on Cuba and compare it to the situation in Switzerland.

Which method do we want to use?

  • Interview with a partner
  • Survey in the street/internet how people feel about the situation here.
  • Research on the internet

How do we want to reach our goal?

With research on the internet about the current situation in Switzerland an Cuba (Facts, numbers etc.) and lots of opinion of different persons.

What are the recommended steps?

  1. Find a collaboration partner
  2. Research on the internet
  3. Create an interview with good questions
  4. Ask the collaboration partner the questions
  5. Give audience our new knowledge in a post

Who is the audience?

Everyone who is interested in this topic.

 

Team: Savina&Céline

Foodwaste: facts, tips, impacts

Food waste has far-reaching and unnecessary consequences for animals, humans and our planet.

 

"In rich countries
7% of income is spent on
income on food, of which 30% ends up in waste."

"In developing countries
70% of income is spent on food, of which
3% ends up in waste."

https://www.firstbudget.ch/files/dateien/Downloads/Spartipps%20Foodwaste.pdf

  1. Food waste increase the issue of global food security because it increases the demand for food.
  2. The production of food requires large amounts of resources such as water, energy and soil, and pollutes the environment with exhaust fumes and chemicals.

exhaust fumes = Abgase

 

important and easy step to do something personally against foodwaste:

  • Buy according to shopping list and only as much as you need

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

 

Project Start

In the following we answered the questions and drew the steps how to start. We chose to not draw a Mindmaps but the different steps. 

1. What do we need?

2. What are the important questions?

3. What are the advantages of an international collaboration project?

4. What difficulties could arise? 

5. What are the chances?

6. How can you get connected and involved?

6. How can you become a team? More...