Week 2 Day 1

Reflection on the Trailer building excercise at the end of last week.
Strengths:
- Highly productive
- Efficient (when good task delegation is utilised)
- Sharing of ideas and skillbases'
- Able to work with trial and error
- positive Working and creative environment.
Weaknesses:
- Delay in sourcing components
- Lack of communication between different projects and within small groups
- Building before the design has been clarified
- Time Management
- Task Division
- Need for Leaders
- Rushed Schedule
- Lack of Tools/equipment

Our Realistic Goals for the rest of the project
- Need for physical outcomes/concepts for the forum, dinner and festival
- Keep it Simple (existing components/mechanisms)
- Aesthetic considerations (clean finished projects)
- The outcomes are to be "locally responsive" for Melbourne
- Introduce new possibilities and gain universal appeal for bicycling
- Recycling possibilities
- Use of Retrofitting
- Possible conceptual outcomes (to persue in the future)
- Alliances (eg with Green Collect)

- Continue to develop the hitching mechanism and trailer
- Develop a food/service vehicle
- Develop a mobile bike maintenance vehicle

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