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EeD's new workshop!

9/2/2020

 

Our new Eden for product development

It had to be the right place. The right environment. The right moment. 
The development of a product is, in essence, about introspection. But it requires lots of interaction with the world, too. Needs of inspiration and good vibes, and it all has to happen when you have access to your work materials: you need to be in your tailored atelier. 
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Our workshop is born in the guts of an ancient watermill. Centuries ago, the emplacement served as a convent and, later, belonged to the Lords of La Sarra. This emblematic place called Le Moulin Bornu, was also known at that time as The Middle of the World, and links both Rhone and Rhine and, further, Mediterranean Sea with Nordic Sea.

Today, it has been re-adapted for the local industry, and there we gather a variety of enterprises, from service companies, to construction, blacksmiths, restaurants, artists... The watermill has turned a hydroelectric power station providing electricity to local areas.


Everyday, we pass right close to the river basin to enter to the workshop. Isn't it magic?​ So it is to count with a part of the old watermill mechanism right inside our workspace :) Old-tech and new-tech gathered in the same place!

What we do there

Such an adequate environment brings a flow of things to do:
  • devising and development of ideas
  • functional analysis of the needs of our products
  • building of mock-ups and prototypes
  • testing and optimisation
For that, we count with all the tools needed for materialising our ideas which include drilling, cutting, soldering, welding, and general purpose tools. Soon, a 3D printer, a CNC machine, and a plastic recycling system for injection moulding, will be part of our equipment.

Some facts

  • We use 100% renewable energy which, as expected, comes from hydroelectric power,
  • We mostly reuse materials for prototyping,
  • We upcycle or recycle to the limit,
  • We co-work with JAVI Multiservices to share machinery, tools, materials, and ideas, 
  • We promote industrial symbiosis with local companies in the area.
EeD's design stage is about carbon neutral,
produces very limited waste, and
optimises available material resources
Soon, we will share some images of how we refurbished the place and how it looks like with you :) 
​Find the place here!

Interview with Kelly Logan about ecoefficiency

6/18/2020

 
This is the first piece of a kind interview that Kelly Logan, managing director at Logan & Partners, made me at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne.
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Kelly is much interested in getting deeper knowledge about Circular Economy. So, he contacted Eco-efficient Design to know more about it from an ecodesigner's perspective.

​We talked for quite long, but in this short fragment I introduce the concept of ecoefficiency and how this objective is so important for a company...and how it happened to name our product design agency.

- Santiago - 

Back to the basics

4/25/2020

 

A half-full glass

These are days to stay home. For some resigned teleworkers it is an endless chaotic period in which balancing work and personal life makes it sort of a hell. 
For others, this is an opportunity to do things differently, to learn something new, or just to wake up a little bit later and forget about traffic jams and ringing phones and to work in pyjamas. 

A pen is a mighty tool

I was sitting in the kitchen with my daughter doing some hand-painting. A red right hand here, a green left half-hand there, spare lines and paint stains everywhere. 

Following we started on the colour pencils... and the magic did the rest. Hands, lines and stains became crocodiles, puppies, swan eggs, uncle Michael, mum and dad, whales and cars.
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For me it was a clear invitation to get back to pen an paper - under her permission, of course. I was determined to just do the same. Enjoying. So, I did some wild sketching of stuff and ideas. No matter what.

​All of a sudden, a solution to a project I had been wandering about for days came like a spark. This experience was a turning point.
Isn't it amazing how fast and free a child's mind can move?
How simple they find connections in a disperse Venn diagram?
​How constrained we are by logic?

​Keep it simple and enjoy it!


- Santiago

Linking geriatrics and Circular Economy | new project ongoing!

6/11/2019

 

Helping older people: an additional motivation

We have the great luck to take part in touching projects. But this time, not only will it defy our design skills, but also will it involve us emotionally.
Our new goal is to develop a device allowing older people to stroll freely, and preventing them from being injured or harmed in case of falling.
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Specialists of a Day Care Centre in Madrid, explained to us the huge need of such a device, and how existing strollers do not solve this problem. So, we have been honoured to devise it and to make it available and, of course, affordable.
This project implies many design constraints. We have tight collaboration with specialists in geriatrics and physiotherapist, to find a technically and economically feasible solution that is also adequate to the reality our elderly live. 
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This will be a product created by end-users for the benefit of themselves. We are just putting engineering to work, translating needs into well-being, physical limitations into freedom. Design Thinking in its purest state to create an innovative fall-preventive zimmer frame. 

Needless to say that, the product will strictly follow all ecodesign rules to provide a top-quality solution without harming the environment. Well...we have just said it :)

Curso online: biometano

7/11/2018

 
Junto con nuetro curso online sobre Biometano Vehicular, hemos creado también un curso genérico y extenso sobre biometano. 
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En él podrás aprender cómodamente a tu ritmo qué son el el biogás y el biometano, en que se parecen y diferencian del gas natural, sus recursos y sistemas de producción, sus multiples usos. También podrás conocer sus consecuencias de cara a una Economía Circular y su potencial medioambiental.

​¡El curso comienza en breve! Podrás encontrar más información y la matrícula en este link. 

¡Apúntate!

Curso online Biometano Vehicular

6/27/2018

 
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Nueva edición del curso online Biometano Vehicular, ofrecido por Eco-efficient Design a través de la plataforma de Structuralia.

Aprende desde casa y a tu ritmo cómo se producen el biogás y el biometano, y sus aplicaciones, beneficios, y consecuencias en el sector vehicular.

Más información y matrícula en 
​https://www.structuralia.com/formacion/biometano-vehicular

​¡Apúntate! Comienza el 19 de septiembre.

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