Teddy bag - INDEX: Design to Improve Life

Teddy bag
François Verez
Ane Eguiguren

0.
INDEX
A project for:
INDEX:DESIGN
CHALLENGE
11/2010
1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS TEDDY BAG
3. TEDDY’S LIFE
3.1. Raw Materials
3.2. Production process
3.3. Use
4. WHAT DOES TEDDY BAG BRING
TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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1.
INTRO-
DUCTION
WHY DO WE PARTICIPATE IN INDEX: DESIGN CHALLENGE.
We found that the contest was an opportunity to think
about a product whose purpose was not intended for
financial gain. It was also an opportunity to create affordable
and socially responsible objects for the developing
countries, especially to improve education. In our opinion,
education is the basis for the develpment of a country.
The principal purpose was to use design to help and create
useful products.
WHY DID WE CHOOSE THE OPEN CHALLENGE.
We wanted to make something moral and emotionally
rewarding, instead of something technical. We started
thinking about why children want to go to school and how
do they take pleasure in it. We decided to create an useful
object that at the same time would have an emotional
bond with the child.
We all know how much children like school equipment;
the new pencil for the back to school, the old school bag
they get attached to... The kid’s studying equipment is as
important as the place where he studies.
So our aim was to create an “emotionally living” object
that motivate children to study at school and at home.
We have created an object that allows the kid work anywhere
and that is his education partner.

2.
WHAT IS
TEDDY BAG
TEDDY BAG IS A CONCEPT OF SCHOOL FURNITURE/
EQUIPMENT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
It is an school bag that
turns into a desk.
Allows children carry
all what they need to
study; in school, at
home or anywhere.
Teddy bag
It is made by cardboard
so it is light.
Its simple production
process makes
possible to produce
it easily in developing
countries.

3.
TEDDY’S
LIFE
1. RAW MATERIALS
Everything is recovered:
WHERE DO THESE MATERIALS COME FROM
TYPOLOGIES OF MUNICIPAL WASTE COLLECTION AND
TREATMENT BY COUNTRY INCOME
The attitude to waste and
waste treatments varies significantly
between countries
and depends on their history,
their culture and their
geography.
An abstract of 2006 World Waste Survey
Veolia environmental service.
For the moment in developing countries there is less waste
than in the developed ones, but it is estimated that the
quantity of waste will increase with their development. This
way, products like Teddy bag can be a way to educate them
in reusing waste. As we can see in the second diagram, even
the developed countries are not used to reuse waste. And
the most used treatment is always the controlled landfill or
incineration for the asiatic developed countries.
MUNICIPAL WASTE TREATMENT BREAKDOWN IN
A SELECTED NUMBER OF COUNTRIES (AS %)
Both diagrams extracted from:
An abstract of 2006 World
Waste Survey
Veolia environmental service.
Cardboard boxes
Plastic bags

In the past, humans regarded their
resources as rare, knowing that
their demands outweighed supply.
Everything available had to be
used and almost nothing went to
waste. Due to limited techniques,
natural resources remained largely
unexploited and all types of
waste had to be recycled.
An abstract of 2006 World Waste Survey
Veolia environmental service
2. PRODUCTION PROCESS
FOR THE BAG:
1
3
Recover cardboard boxes
(corrugated, 5mm of thickness)
2
4
Draw the plan on the cardboard
Cut, fold and glue* the cardboard
* we can glue with white glue or with a mixture of
starch and therebentine alcohol (more ecological)
Put craft paper tape in every corner
in order to fill in all the gaps
9x
5 6
3x
Marl
a mix of calcium
carbonate and clay
Water
6x
1x
White
glue
Linen oil
Apply a mixture* that will then allow painting
* we can also use starch and therebentine
alcohol to create the mixture (more ecological)
7 8
Apply acrylic paint*
* we can also use potatoes and
pigments to create the paint
VARNISH
Apply varnish*
* we can also use shellac and alcohol
to create the varnish (more ecological)
RESULT:
A COLORED AND WATER
RESISTANT* CARDBOARD OBJECT
* can resist to the rain and exterior humidity

FOR THE BAG:
The bag has three parts
PART 2: STOOL
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3
24
PART 1: SCHOOL BAG
7
27 5
7
11
15
20
36,5
15
20
27 13 13 27 13 13 27
Scale 1:10
10
10
How to build it:
18
12
18
This is the original
drawing and it could be
built from one or several
cardboard sheets
5
27
Scale 1:10
How to build it:
PART 3: TABLE
How to build it:
1
2,5
velcro clasp
2
15
water bottle tops
as protectors
36 27
x2
31
7
26
21
Scale 1:10

The chair
With its accordion shape it can easily
resist up to 60kg.
The table
The cardboard sheet which allows to build the
table permits to carry and protect some paper
sheets. This table includes also a little space to
keep some pencils stable.
The school bag
It has space to carry the table and some school
material; as a ring binder, with some books.

FOR THE HANDLES:
1
2
Recover plastic bags
(a plastic bag is enough for two handles,
one meter each)
Cut the plastic bags creating
a long thread
3
4
RESULT:
VERY RESISTANT AND
SUSTAINABLE WAY TO REUSE
PLASTIC BAGS, WHICH POLLUTE
THE LANDSCAPE
Knit the plastic thread creating a mesh

3. USE
THE SCHOOL BAG ALLOWS CARRYING
UP TO 10KG OF WEIGHT
THE SCHOOL DESK ENCOURAGES SHARING

Colorama

3.
WHAT DOES TEDDY
BAG BRING TO
DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES
AND YOU CAN ALSO MAKE
YOUR OWN DESIGN!
Teddy Bag can be easily produced in the country without any
complicated tools or machines.
This fact creates work that can be executed by anybody,
without needing any specific formation.
This type of products help creating small business and participate
in the development of the community. The sustainable aspect of
Teddy Bag (no costs in raw material and very simple production
process) makes it a very accesible product.
Moreover, its easy production makes possible to adapt its dimensions
to different ages.
Teddy Bag carries the idea of making a large collection of cardboard
made school equipment.
MArie
Marie’s example

Yes we bag!