Develop your systems diagram further. Define your own system better so you can design it better. Apply principles of regulation, having a feedback loop (end-to-end operation). How will you ultimately ensure that your system is functioning?
We will ensure that our system is functioning essentially by asking students if it’s working. What we mean by that is performing research on the effectiveness of our system in reaching our goals. Overall, the goal is to make a living space that helps reduce stress. To know that we have succeeded in that task, we have to interview students, and use their input to change our system if it isn’t working.
Identify five (5) different leverage points that your team could use.
- Changing whole purpose of project (already did)
- First couple weeks of projects, we tried to create solutions to a problem that we didn’t even know. We asked our faculty mentor and other colleagues about the making of the project and their purpose didn’t really mean anything. In that case, we had to state a problem that our project will solve and that is exactly what we did.
- As get more input from students, we can change our design for our system
- What makes a space stress reducing is not created through a simple formula. We need to hear what students want and need from their study spaces to create as impactful of a space as possible.
- Convincing stakeholders to increase funding for project
- Funding changes the potential scale of our project.
- As we scale up, we should be able to measure a more significant change in all of our results. More green study spaces means more stress reduction, as more students are reached.
- Combining efforts with other sustainability projects like the grey water system.
- We can improve our efforts to make a sustainable project by working with other campus groups.
- Our project will be as efficient as we can make it without their help, but we can improve it by also using recycled water, plastic, or renewable energy through the help of other projects.
- Studying interactions with our project
- We want to use this project as a source of future research
- The direction the research goes can contribute to its value to our stakeholders. Depending on what it studied and what the results are, the research can determine how far the project goes.