- 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?
there are 5 parts directly connected with our team:
1 Student: Our prior “target audience” are students, and it is necessary to get their attention and awareness. At the same time, they could provide some important feedback that could help us better improve our plans.
2Website: A website is an essential tool to draw students’ attention and bring their awareness by letting them understand the potential carbon value in each food.
3Dining hall staff: They help us to visualize and work on our ideas like putting the stickers in the dining hall.
4Dining hall: We are connected with the dining hall because our ultimate goal is to change the food supply structure in the dining hall. We are expecting to see a decline in the high carbon emission food.
5Social media: we are making posts to increase our influence. It is an essential way to bring students awareness.
External systems:
1Lehigh dining hall function system in including the menu selection and food supply.
2 Other Lehigh research team focusing on the food system.
The functionality would be detected by the change of food consumption in the Lehigh dining hall. Also, it can be reflected by student’s satisfaction and participation.
2 . Identify five (5) different leverage points that your team could use.
1 Feedback: The intensive interaction with students in our project could provide us the convenience to hear their feelings and feedbacks. We could also conduct a survey to collect those opinions. Also, we could see the comment in the post to check our effort. And those feedbacks would be valuable.
2 Design: The website design would be beneficial to those who want to know more about our project. This design is very efficient and can spread information.
3 Material: We would produce some stickers and put them into the dining hall. These materials could have contained some information and convey our ideas.
4 Intent: Changing mindset would be essential in our project since many people used to ignore the effect of carbon value contained in the food. Much attention has been drawn to the carbon emission in vehicle emissions, but we could also make an impact by reducing food carbon emissions. So the small shift or awareness in the mindset would make big changes.
5 Design: We design those posts and making them interesting to inform more people and draw students’ attention.