The "Pet Disaster Preparedness Kit" is one of the entries in Fudy Group's annual competition for social good, "Pack a Home." With disaster preparedness as the main focus and integrating the pet living scenario, we aimed to make the disaster emergency kit a part of daily life and provide rapid support in critical moments. By designing the disaster emergency kit to also function as a shoe-changing stool, we successfully integrated the concept of disaster preparedness into a part of a family's everyday life.
Taiwan is in a high-risk earthquake zone. Therefore, the Kaohsiung City Animal Protection Office actively advocates for "pet disaster preparedness," encouraging pet owners to prepare in advance. Our challenge lies in placing essential items in the disaster preparedness kit, ensuring that the kit serves other functions and integrates into daily life scenarios while promoting disaster preparedness awareness.
● Promoting disaster awareness
● Integrating into daily life scenarios
● Everyday practical applications
We conducted in-depth research and pain point analysis to find the most suitable location for placing the disaster preparedness kit. The result revealed that the entrance hall is an ideal placement location. Ｗe designed a clever solution to prevent the kit from becoming an obstacle: giving the kit an additional shoe-changing stool function. In this way, people can use it as a seat in their daily lives. When a disaster strikes, they can easily access the disaster emergency kit on the evacuation route without wasting extra effort and time.
The "Pet Guardian" disaster preparedness kit features a sturdy hexagonal structure that can bear the weight of an adult and can be disassembled into two trapezoidal portable boxes containing enough necessities to sustain a pet's life for three days. We integrated disaster awareness concepts from the courses the Kaohsiung City Animal Protection Office offered to design stickers, showing the criteria for judging animal health indicators. By doing so, pet owners' disaster awareness can be enhanced, enabling them to understand pets' needs during emergencies. Through this design, we hope every stray animal can find a permanent home and no longer wander.
Structural Designer | Zhang Luan, Ke Bosong (Taipei Fudy)."
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