Daily Archives: November 10, 2025

We held an online meeting with Team 10 on Zoom at 6:00 p.m. Beijing Time (1:00 p.m. Turkish Time) on November 8th. What preparations did we make for this meeting? Burcu connected with members of our group on WeChat using the contact information provided in our briefing document. She also thoughtfully created a dedicated WeChat group to streamline communication between both parties. Additionally, she inquired about our availability for an online meeting—intended to review the briefing document and enable a brief introductory check-in. As we had classes scheduled on Thursday and Friday, we coordinated via email, WeChat, and Instagram to finalize the meeting details, confirming an online session for Saturday afternoon. During the meeting, we greeted each other warmly, raised questions regarding both parties' briefing documents, and the most interesting part was that Burcu and Nisa showed us Lahmacun—a traditional Turkish delicacy. Since I didn’t get a screenshot of it, I found a picture of Lahmacun online instead. Does it look a bit like pizza? I thought so at first too, but it isn’t. Filiz explained that Lahmacun has a distinct flavor from pizza. Unlike pizza, which is topped with a variety of ingredients such as mushrooms, olives, and sausages, Lahmacun consists of minced meat mixed with chili peppers, tomato sauce, and onions, all spread over a thin piece of bread. It is then wrapped with fresh tomatoes, onions, and parsley and eaten as a roll—and it sounds absolutely delicious Regarding the questions about our design project, due to our limited English proficiency, we had a brief discussion about the missing information that each party needs in our respective briefing documents, and decided to supplement this information on the blog. We were truly delighted to connect with Team 10 through this opportunity—their warmth and enthusiasm were tangible, even across the screen. It was also a wonderful surprise to learn about Turkish cuisine, which added such a lovely touch to our conversation. Though we hail from different corners of the world, there’s something truly special about building connections in this way; it feels like a small but precious bridge between our cultures.That said, we do feel a gentle regret that our limited English kept us from diving deeper into more conversations—there was so much we wanted to share and ask. Even so, we’re eager to keep nurturing this connection through our design projects moving forward. Meeting all of you has been such a joy, and we hope every day brings you the same brightness and energy you brought to our video call. Wishing you lots of happiness in your days ahead, and we’re already looking forward to our next chance to connect. The above content is provided by Team 1.

Thank you for Filiz's question. Regarding usage scenarios, we would like to add some supplementary details. In China, some elderly people often convert the yards of old-style houses into small vegetable gardens. For elderly residents living in new residential communities, due to the restriction that they cannot use the community spaces arbitrarily, they choose to grow plants on their balconies. Additionally, there is a group of elderly people living in old residential communities who not only grow plants on their balconies but also make use of the unused spaces or flower beds downstairs in the community for planting. Our target audience is exactly this last group of elderly people, and the problem we need to solve is how to transport tools when they need to take care of plants both upstairs (on the balcony) and downstairs (in the community spaces). The tools they commonly use for caring for both indoor and outdoor plants are all the tools in picture (5-1) except the dipper and the iron shovel. This is because all the other tools are needed for both indoor and outdoor planting.The key question is how to better store these tools after using them for balcony planting and then carry them downstairs for outdoor planting. Elderly people may have unsteady steps when going downstairs, and the old residential communities where they live often lack elevators, so they need to hold onto handrails to go down. On one hand, this tool storage bag should be easy to carry—for example, it could be a single-shoulder bag that can be slung over the shoulder while going downstairs. On the other hand, this hand-carried bag needs to secure the gardening tools properly, preventing sharp tools from falling due to the elderly’s unsteady steps and causing harm to them. For watering tools and large iron shovels, we don’t think you need to consider them as items for storage. Indoors, watering is usually done with water ladles or plastic bottles, while outdoors, water guns and iron shovels are used. Whether indoors or outdoors, these tools are not only different from each other but also difficult to store with lightweight storage tools. Wish you all the best.