Design space
A lot of people like to go camping in their free time. It brings the opportunity to live in a slower pace on all kinds of different places. It gives autonomy over where you stay for the night and it offers the freedom to go outside. Even though camping is a fun activity, it has it’s downsides. It is known that the production of tents and other camping gear emits allot of carbon dioxide (Krättli, N. 2020, November), that camping itself is harmful for nature (Greenpeace. 2016) and that there is a camping gear waste problem at weekend festivals (Phillip Jones 2017). Disposing your worn out tent seems like an easy thing to do. But no matter where you throw it away, your tent is probably not going to be recycled. It will be an extra layer on the pile of waste that we already have. There are some tent recycling options, but for them the amount of tent waste is too big. It is hard to disassemble the tents itself and the fabric will lose allot of its properties when being recycled. Postponing the disposing will help with this problem. This leaves a design opportunity where a person itself can create with their own old tent.
