William Su-Project 12-Proposal

1. While I can’t exactly articulate every detail of what I want to do exactly right now. I am planning on doing something illustrates the problems with E-waste (electronic waste) and planned obsolescence. I think it will be an motion-infographic that is kinda similar to the stuff on this website: http://www.distancetomars.com/. Here it illustrates the distances between the Earth and Mars using time and speed. I want to show how “easy” it is for us to just throw away an old computer when so many resources and labor went into making it. This will probably done with interactive graphical elements and storytelling. As far as the statistic side of things, I know that 300,000,000 computers are produced every year but only a small percentage are recycled. It takes 530 pounds of fossil fuels, 48 pounds of chemicals, and 1.5 tons of water to manufacture a single computer.

As a back-up, I will likely do a game with custom sprite animations. It would probably have an 8-bit aesthetic with simple controls and objectives.