The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

Calculation

3. April 2020 Straeuli-Deia Step 3 Experience, M17a Zurich, SHARING, Team Game sharing (1)

Helo everyone

The calculation of how much energy we can save if we would increasingly share video games is as follows: If we assume that 400,000 people in Switzerland use a PS4 or similar and that the download for one gigabyte takes 0.06 kilowatt hours , everyone has an average of 300 GB on their Playstation, the download comes with a power consumption of around 7,000,000 kWh. This does not even include other things as the server's power consumption for example. We believe that sharing video games could save at least a third. That means we would save about 2’300’00 kWh. By the way: Around 60,000,000 kWh of electricity is consumed in Switzerland each year for video games. And that if you only use the PS4 on average for one hour a day.

Kind regards,

Deia and Rezon

Feedback round peers to peers

3. April 2020 Rahel-Kuenzle M17a Zurich, SHARING, Team Share it app (0)

Dear Lars

Dear Dharany

We really like our idea of the "SHARE-it App". You can save a lot of money, if you rent things and not buy them.

Unfortunately you couldn't create a real app which could be used, but you found a good solution with the PowerPoint. It' is possible to search systematical and there are further details to every object which is great.

We are looking Forward to your results.

Best regards,

Shana and Rahel

Results Game-Sharing

27. March 2020 Rezon M17a Zurich, SHARING, Team Game sharing (1)

Hello Everyone

Last week, we forgot to show you our results of our gamesharing tasks. We want to apologise for that

We thought of a way of how people can share games efficiently. We found out, that there are two options (if you have more, feel free to inspire us in the comments!)

Option 1 : Sharing function on the PS4. The PS4 is the most popular console in this world and luckily, it has some sort of sharing functions, where two players can share all of their games together. It works like that. Every player has an own account and own console. Now, the two player need to log in to the other players console and mark their PS4 as their own PS4.  Like that, the original owner, can download all the games the other player bought. It is some sort of tricking around the system. The problem with this method is, that you can only share downloaded games and not the ones bought on a cd. But that's why we thought of a different method.

Option 2 : Share the Gaming CD's. First of all we thought of sharing the whole console. But not all of us live together with their gaming partner and that's why this method would have taken away a lot of fun. In addition to that, the gamers wouldn't be able to play at the same time.

So, we thought about of buying and sharing games together. This method would save a massive amount of CD's and a lot of energy would be spared. The only disadvantage would be, that the gamers cannot play the same games at the same time. But if they're anyway only storygame-players, this wouldn't cause any problems.

Either way, both methods would save a lot of energy, as downloading games and burning CD's uses a huge amount of energy.

So what did we do? We tried out the sharing function on the PS4 and started to play together. To be honest, we where very impressed and overwhelmed. We gave each other our log-in informations and started to play games TOGETHER, while only one of us bought the games. It didn't have any disadvantages, as we both only buy games online and not per CD. The only thing you need here is trust, because you give away each other your informations.

Then we asked some friends of ours, if they use this function too. And, impressingly, they don't. A lot of us don't even know about this function. So we started to inspire our friends to use this function while saving money, energy and downloads.

Today, we want to send out a survey to all the gamers we know. Stay tuned!

Best regards,

Rezon and Deia

Sharing clothes - research on the internet (in progress)

27. March 2020 Oscar-de-Ruijter Project planning, Step 2 Research, SHARING, Team Clothes sharing (0)

Hello everybody

Our team did some research on the internet this week.

In a first step we searched for "clothes to rent" and found out that some special clothes like high quality wedding dresses and suits are already for rent in some online shops.

Until now we haven't found any online shops that "share clothes". We understand that it is difficult to share clothes because of the following;

- The bodysize must be the same or else the clothes will get ugly with the time

- An uncarful person may cause damage to your clothes

- You need the clothes while it's rented to another person

We did some further resarch on how much clothes is getting wasted every year.

As an example of this we found out that every year 20 percent of the newly produced clothes are destroyed unworn by companies like Zalando. We thougt about an idea to reduce this waste by sharing those clothes. You can offer them to homeless people in the winter but also to regular people to wear it for a short amount of time and then give/share it with another person. This concept is the base of our app that we want to create. By bringing those unworn clothes in the market homeless poeple don't need to buy clothes. People who just want to wear another style can also profit off it by wearing it for a certain amount of time and then give/share it with another person.

Then we went on to the Task Miss Suter gave us. The question was to determine how much energy can be saved when 10 poeple would do it/wouldn't do it.

Best regards

Oscar, David und Joel

 

M17a - Special: Lectures will be held as a distance learning experiment II

26. March 2020 Eliane-Suter M17a Zurich, SHARING (0)

Dear M17a students, please check out your program & tasks and get in contact via Office365 Teams as indicated here: https://2020.the-horse.education/page/m17a-program-and-tasks

Meetings via Office365 Teams at least to the following hours with me (all class members), you have to be online during this time for teacher's questions and discussions:
Start of lecture 1: 13:20
     Teacher's talk with teams and accessible for questions
     Have a break 14:00
Start of lecture 2: 14:10
     Teacher's talk with teams and accessible for questions
Class meeting end of lectures: 14:55

 

=>Note reg. your project steps and research tasks: You must post your content and results of the steps directly on The Horse (e.g. research step with links and media you found regarding your Sharing topic!), all steps and material so far should be transparent on The Horse, provided with the corresponding team category!

Step 5 - Reflection

23. March 2020 Dharany-Theivendran Step 5 Reflection, M17a Zurich, SHARING, Team Share it app (0)

Hello everyone

We tend to consider it a given that sharing is a good thing. As children, we're taught (and made) to share our toys, our crayons, and our rooms. As we age, our toys and our personal space become larger and more expensive, and we share them less and less, but we still value the idea of sharing. There are lots of ways to share resources as adults, including shared gardens, food, meals, jobs and many more. More...