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Project by Industrial Design students at the Sãlao Design Casa Brasil 2007 event

August 31, 2007
The AMEA Project, developed by seventh-semester students in the Bachelor of Industrial Design program, participated in the "Designing the Future" project, an event held as part of the Sãlao Design Casa Brasil 2007, which took place in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, from August 21 to 25.

The AMEA project is developing self-sufficiency subsystems for the home of 2050, utilizing renewable natural resources and emerging technologies designed for the future: water, materials, energy, and air.

Each of these systems is environmentally sustainable and innovative; they can coexist but are not dependent on one another. The students participating in the AMEA project are Martina Alonso, Analaura Antúnez, Valentina Belassi, Leticia Bermudez, Cecilia Etcheverrigaray, Erika Graetz, Natalia Hochman, Elian Kazcka, Gabriela Lebel, Denise Latarowski, Agustina Liguori, Francisca Maya, Jimena Panzera, Claudia Raggio, Magdalena Rodiño, Juan Severino, Gabriel Spinelli, and Alana Tassino.

Professor DI Gabriel Crosa led the development of the project.

Universidad ORT Uruguay allocated a 9-square-meter booth to showcase the project, sharing the "Plaza de la Creación" with 12 universities from Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba.

A group of seven students—Alonso, Belassi, Bermúdez, Graetz, Hochman, Etcheverrigaray, and Maya—are attending the exhibition as ambassadors for the AMEA Project and as university representatives.

In addition to the display panels explaining the project, the students have put together a catalog featuring their best projects from the Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design.