Riding a bike is something that provides more than just the practical benefit of moving people from point A to B.
Quite true, especially if we consider what the SF Bay area industrial designer Jesse Harrington is proposing through his all-inclusive learning schema that is supposed to revolve around bike wheels in motion. The designer identifies three types of active learners: Kinesthetic, Converging and Tactillian, who learn better by physical involvement. The designer aims to elucidate how the Power on Demand (POD) concept could be a great learning experience for all.
Design Inspiration:
Power on Demand concept utilizes human power to generate electric or non-electric mechanical power for several uses. While Jesse takes a flyer on bike as the mode of instruction, all three kinds of learners get a practical awareness of human power as an alternative energy source.
Mechanism:
Esse proposes the RMSC-Cycle for Converging Learners. The mechanism includes a curved seat that sits slightly above a pedal-driven machine. The user/learner applies manual labor to run a washing machine, television, blender, grain sheller, forklift, computer and other instruments.
Second, there is Edu-Cycle for Kinesthetic Learners, which tends to teach learners how much energy they consume while biking, and how one could harness it for a better use.
Finally, there is a pack of DIY Plans for Tactillian Learners who could see human power converted into usable energy in real time.
Designer: Jesse Harrington
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