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Presentation Content:

Problem

- Urban statistics (Laura)

• Today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050.
• Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050.
• The urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014.
• The world’s urban population is expected to surpass six billion by 2045.
• In New Zealand over 70% of us live in urban areas, where we spend an amazing 90% of our time indoors

Target Audience (sickness in flats) (Clarke)
The indoor environment is so important to our health as we spend about 90% of our time indoors, therefore having a major impact on our health.

Common flat issues:
– cold
– poorly insulated
– hard to maintain heat
– damp

– moisture from; hot showers, cooking, drying laundry, and even just breathing
– poor ventilation, no fresh airflow
– condensation, growing mould

– Mould can be toxic and cause reactions to people with pre-existing respiratory conditions such as hay fever and asthma.

– While you're more likely to get a cold if you are tired, or emotionally or physically stressed, or do not have a healthy diet. Which are common traits of students especially when studying for exams, completing assignments, or just trying to keep on top of studies.

- Benefits of indoor plants for wellbeing (Nat)

Key Points:

The stress of an unpleasant environment can cause you to feel anxious, or sad, or helpless. This in turn elevates your blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension and suppresses your immune system. A pleasing environment reverses that.

Adjusting our surroundings with natural elements can benefit our overall wellbeing. Research reveals that environments can increase or reduce our stress, which in turn impacts our bodies.

Indoor plants in particular are the main contributor to air purification which can benefit our health and wellbeing especially being stuck in a damp, cold flat.

- Trees in NZ (Emma)

Only 24% of our country's land area is covered in native forest.

Studies say that 1000 years of Polynesian and European settlement has resulted in the destruction of nearly three-quarters of our country's indigenous forest cover.

So locally our Wellington City council has established a vision to plant two million trees in Wellington by 2020.

And it is with this vision and the other context we have just mentioned that has sparked the inspiration towards our project concept

Solution

– Introducing Budbee an app that helps you place, grown and track plants indoors. The app will use smartphone technology such as the compass, camera and weather, to guide you where to situate you plant indoors. (L)

– Budbee will also be able to identify plants through the camera. It will suggest what type of plant will thrive in a particular part of the room and what fertilizers to use. Improving air purification, mental health and well being.  (C)

– Plants become personalised through the naming feature in our plant profiling section, along with the ability to share amongst your friends through the app. The plant profiling will also send you notifications for watering reminders for each plant buddy.  (N)

Where to from here?  (E)

Next our team hopes to seek further validation amongst both the intended users of budbee and potential partners.

We see a collaboration between bud bees indoor planting endeavours and wider urban applications through forwarding our potential income into donations towards a charity operation that is seeking funding for either local forest restoration or wildlife protection.

We hope to start building relationships with local gardening shops to understand how bud bee could affect and improve their businesses

And how their current knowledge of planting in new zealand could help us refine and craft our app to the best it can be.

Through working closely alongside these centres If our project requires any sponsorship we would look into seeing whether any centre would be willing to cooperate.

The Kereru Discovery project aims to restore large flocks of kereru to the skies of Wellington.

A key part of which is to restore large fruiting trees back to Wellington's forest.

or the council has provided an opportunity to Sponsor a new forest

Where they help identify a reserve area, and we provide funds for tree planting. In return, they have a number of options to highlight our involvement.

Or you can partner with their urban designers and green your street by sponsoring a tree.

App names:

Herbit

Seedbe

Seedly

Bushbe

Bebush

Peebly

Budbe

Budin

Budbee