Space10 — Greywater products for Mexican homes
Space10 · Social innovation · Housing · Mexico · Innovation · Innovation Factory
The challenge
Space10, IKEA's innovation lab, came with a hard question: how to ease the burden water scarcity imposes on low-income Mexican families. The challenge could not be solved from the office or with a benchmark of premium European market products.
The approach
We entered users' homes. We identified their real needs and desires around domestic water management, especially greywater. Together with them we designed three affordable products that allow water to be reused more efficiently. We prototyped, tested and iterated each solution to guarantee it worked in real conditions of use.
The result
Three greywater management solutions, designed from and for the families that would use them. Affordable, functional and field-validated. Innovation didn't stay as a nice concept in a report: it shipped as a product that brings peace of mind around an increasingly scarce resource.
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