A Backpack for a Flooded Future

Convertable Backpack

For a Flooded Future | KU ID

VERONICA VILLHARD | 2016

Prompt: “Surging sea levels will leave up to 760 million people homeless, according to estimates from scientific research organization Climate Central. Should global temperature rise by 4 degrees Celsius, global sea level will accordingly rise up to 35 feet, submerging the homes of 10% of the world’s population.”

–Discovery.com – blog post

Research/Imagine & Design a “personal utility” responding to the increasing conditions caused by tidal flooding. (this should be a solution limited in scale to at most, the size of the human body...no larger.)

NIGHT IN TH E STREET The tides co me fast There is a morning tide and an even tide ing power outage s shallow vs. deep water highter nigh t tide

problem ~ in spiration

Flooded city streets = lo ss of visibi side walk lity buckled road s holes debris stairs loss of powe r

~ solution

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H C R A E S E R N O I T A L INF tation, purpose: floa

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WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

Heating Planet

Thinning Ice

Rising Sea Levels

Encroaching Tides

The average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 1.4° Fahrenheit since 1880.

In recent years, the amount of ice replaced in the winter has not been sufficient to offset summer ice losses.

Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting land ice and the expansion of sea water as it warms.

Longer term, the crucial issue is probably not how much the oceans are going to rise, but how fast.

Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.150.20°C per decade.

Between 2004 and 2008, multi-year ice cover shrank 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles) -- nearly the size of Alaska’s land area.

(NASA’s GISS)

Rising at a rate of 3.41 mm annually.

Coastal flooding will grow more frequent and damaging. (http://nyti.ms/1Oxn6qh)

(NASA)

(NASA)

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WHO IS AFFECTED, RIGHT NOW | BANGLADESH also, Beyonce

BANGLADESH

Low-Lying and riddeled with rivers.

Monsoon weather Spring tidal upsurges at the coastal belts Sumer and Fall floods every year affecting 2/3 of the country

(Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh)

ADAPTIVE EDUCATION | BOAT SCHOOLS

ADAPTIVE SOLUTION | BACKPACK + CHAIR Systematic Air vs. Foam

Versatile Buoyant

Age Group: 6-11 years old demensions based on back size of children Waterproof Recylced Plastic Tarp Paracord

11”

Balanced

- in design and function 10”

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Compact

IDEATION | STUDY OF FORM

Thank you

VERONICA VILLHARD | 2016