Why we are starting this blog

The Guatefilter blog exists to track our progress through this collaborative process. We are part of a class — E/ME 105, Product Design for the Developing World — that is a joint effort of Caltech (Pasadena), Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) and Universidad Rafael Landivar (Guatemala City).

Guatefilter is the name for our project which is building on one of last year's projects, the AWA water filter.

This blog should serve as an online process book, so we can neatly document our weekly progress which includes a trip to Guatemala from August 19th to the 27th. We hope to regularly update it during the trip and throughout the course which begins in September 2009.

Ultimately it will serve as a way to inform others about the project and as a record for us as the project moves along. If the project is passed on to another team in Fall 2010, they could build on it as well.

cheers
matt