Aasiya Khalil
Aikaterini Aznaourova
Aleksandra Cwikla
Alice Ferrante
Alexandra Andrews
Amy Bean
Ana Lucia Sarabia Villegas
Ananya Dunn
Andrea Werres
Anna Savel
Arthur Rowe Jones
Ash Mohammed-Grange
Avina Jain
Bella Yahin Geiwald
Bobby Ingham
Bradley Claytor
Bridget Mosiya
Caleb Woodward
Cam Harris
Cassandra Dickinson
Charlotte Ross
Cherrie Tong
Chloe Eia Hancock
Cornelia Skrok
Daniela Morris
Elissa Lenoir Ajaka
Ell Lenton
Ella Clancy
Ellecia Marie
Ellen Brandi
Elliott Bulman
Eunbyeol Choi
Flo Bender
Freddie Alexander-Morris
Gal Patal
George Murphy
Gerrick King
Gruffudd Drury
Haitian Xu
Han Bao
Hannah Stockwell
Iman Amjid
Isa Rios Martinez
Isla Burnett
Isabelle Van Zijl
James King
Janine Mody
Janvi Jain
Jiachen Shao
Jihun Lee
Joshua Haswell
Josselin Demelier
Kainuo Huang
Karen Tadrous
Kayla Russell
Ke Bao
Kyeongjin Kim
Leeso Kweon
Leslyn Zhou
Liberty Leatherbarrow Stokes
Lucy Lay
Luke Cahalin
Manil Rai
Mathilda Schmidt
Maya Seth
Maya Tastet
Megan Lim
MengTing Ruan (Stella)
Oli Roper
Panka Fürjes
Qiuxuan Jin
Qiyang Yu
Reid Jameson Potts
Samina Rahman
Sayuri Okazaki
Scarlett Hayes
Seungbum Ha (John)
Sohyun Lim
Stefano Stavrou
Stephanie Pyburn
Tara Ferguson
Teodora Dimitrova
Therese Mastek
Tom Heap
Tongzheng Chu
Violet Wang
Xiaohua (Laura) Liu
Xinyi Zhang
Ya Lucia Kang
Yangzhizhuo Qu
Yawen Chen
Ye Zhang (Lily)
Yeji Kim
Yelley Genkin
Yichen Liao
Yuanming (Krystal) Song
Yufei Liu
Yuming Xu
Yuna Goda
Zhaowei Wang
Zih-Jie Weng (Artemis)
Ziru Wang
From Waste to Watts: Converting Student Movement into Usable Electricity
Anna Savel
Exploring the education sector as a system of energy production and consumption, in the context of current energy scarcity and an increasingly climate aware world, my project aims to offer an alternative solution to electrifying our schools. My proposed designs are retrofitted objects, furniture and school facilities that capitalise on everyday movement and behaviours of students and staff within the school, in the form of mechanical, kinetic and sound energy. These retrofits enable the other-wise wasted energy exercised on these objects to be turned into usable electricity to power lamps, electrical appliances and stored in batteries.
In addition to being an environmentally driven project, it aims to make schools a more inclusive space, especially for students with hyperactivity. Fidgeting is no longer discouraged, as this motion exercised on a foot pedal (placed under each chair), powers a lamp in the classroom. As much as it is a practical project, it is also a conceptual one as it intends to give new meanings to everyday behaviours and objects and ask important questions regarding the future of energy and its ethical, political and social implications on the world. Additionally, these objects will be part of an enhanced curriculum, teaching students about small, tangible everyday actions that can be part of the wider goal of a sustainable future.
Email: savelanna01@gmail.com
