16 Şubat 2011 Çarşamba

Cansu Akarsu'dan “INDEX: DESIGN CHALLENGE 2010”da çifte başarı!!

ITU Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölümü 4. sınıf öğrencisi Cansu Akarsu, iki projesi ile birden “INDEX: DESIGN CHALLENGE 2010” yarışmasının finalistleri arasına girdi. Halen Korean Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST)'de değişim öğrencisi olan Cansu Akarsu, padBack ve Eun Jung Lee ile birlikte geliştirdiği Soap Shish isimli projeleriyle 7 finalist proje arasına girmeye hak kazandı ve bu başarısı özel mansiyon ile ödüllendirildi. 
Cansu'yu yürekten tebrik ediyor ve başarılarının devamını diliyoruz... 
INDEX: DESIGN CHALLENGE 2010 hakkında bilgi için: 
http://designtoimprovelife.dk/designchallenge/about.php 
Finalist ve kazanan projeler hakkında bilgi için: 
http://designtoimprovelife.dk/designchallenge/finalists.php 
http://index.createsend5.com/t/ViewEmail/r/5B6DF6142D37345E/E75823263A3AAA93C9C291422E3DE149 

padBack – Cansu Akarsu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR), Istanbul Technical University (TR) 

padBACK is a sanitary protection method for rural areas in Africa. The aim of the project is to ensure that girls do not drop out of school due to stigmatization of their menstrual cycle. The padBack is a self-maintaining system and the pads are made of papyrus and biodegradable non-woven fabric. The Jury felt the designer constructed ‘very well thought opportunities for local procurement and distribution and job creation for papyrus farmers, jobs for production workers and health for women’ and the design focuses on a ‘whole system and not only on a product to a very important and stigmatized issue’. 



Soap Shish - Cansu Akarsu and Eun Jung Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR), Istanbul Technical University (TR)



The Soap Shish is inspired by an abacus and uses the colorful and slippery features of soap and thereby attracting kids to play with it, whilst at the same time clean their hands. It aims to provide hygiene to schools at all times, preventing the soap bars from being removed or melted. The Jury praised the designer for ‘an interesting design that solves a problem while involving the local community in the soap production process.’