Team Terøza: My Experience Designing a Zero-Waste Music Festival with InnovationSpace

InnovationSpace is a Design School program wherein teams of students spend a full year together generating, researching, and prototyping concepts for a sponsor company, which in our case was a local non-profit called Keep Tempe Beautiful. Although InnovationSpace typically entails designing and engineering physical products, Keep Tempe Beautiful took things in a different direction—they wanted our help designing a zero-waste music festival through which they could generate revenue for their park clean-up events. This thesis documents and describes the eight months of work my team undertook, from our earliest brainstorming sessions to our polished proposals, to produce two final concepts: a reusable cup system and alternative attendee transportation. Over the course of two semesters, Team Terøza dove into the literature on zero-waste event planning, generated dozens of both logistical and entertainment-focused concepts, conducted our own surveys and analysis, and progressively culled the herd until only our two best ideas remained to be presented to our colleagues at the end of the year.