Reframing : additional research

Problems I am facing with my design

In the first weeks, I had contact with my former clients to ask them what the daily problems caused by the corona virus they are facing. The thing that struck my most were the travel issues; they don't want to use public transport / taxi services anymore, because they are affraid to be infected.

After I did research and ideation sessions, I came up with the protection screen for in cars. On the internet I saw a lot of variations and implentations of this idea, but the bioplastic version was still missing. That's when I knew I wanted to make a bioplastic screen for in cars.

I called my former employer, RMC Amsterdam, to ask if I could measure out a car for my screen. They told me they already have corona protection screens installed in their cars. I immediately felt like my idea was obsolete, because they already have protection screens installed.

After some thinking I concluded that my project is still a solution to the current problem. The screens the taxis are using right now are made of plexiglass. When the corona crisis is over, most of these plexiglass screens are unnessecary and will be recycled. The proces of recycling plexiglass is hard, and will not be accepted by most recylcing companies. Bioplastic however can easily be recycled and molded over in other objects, without any extensive and harmfull recycling processes.