Week 3 Class

Today's class covered off Ethics and Business Canvas's

The ethics was particularly relevant to us given that we've already started doing primary research. Discussing this with Tristam he is happy for us to just email through what we've done so far and that we received verbal agreements to things like photos, but in future we need to check in to make sure we don't need to sign anything.

The business canvas was a little more tricky - especially given that we were using the one with a more social lean. We had a go at this and just had some fun with it for this first iteration.

The rest of class was spent working through our idea and talking it through with the tutors. This was particularly useful now that we are getting a better understanding of it ourselves. Gen has a nice wee story written up to give our idea a bit of colour and warmth.

We also got in touch with Karen from Juliette's Florist again to talk to her about the waste she was collecting for us and she had some set aside! So Gen and I popped down after class and picked it up and were super pleased and surprised to see just how much was there - and how beautiful it was! This revives our hope of being able to get produce from some florists.

We also knew that if we wanted to pursue the collection from businesses avenue further then we needed to find out how these flowers were managed. Our first call was to the Intercontinental Hotel in Wellington. They were more than happy to let us know that they had flowers delivered for their lobby weekly, and that the florist took these away when she delivered her new bunch. They also gave us her name - Yvette Edwards so that we could get in touch with her. And we did. I sent her an email to ask if we could meet with her for a chat which she was more than happy about so we are booked to see her at 2pm on Wednesday.

All in all it was a day of progress for us.

Next steps:

I am getting in touch with Tristam regarding ethics.
Tia is looking into some stats around mental health/wellbeing of our target recipients (elderly people living at home, alone).
Gen is looking after our collection of 'waste'.

On Wednesday we plan to trial making paper and inks with the 'waste' collected today. As well as meeting with Yvette to discover more about her floristry and the corporate flowers she sells.