Above: DEX filtration system

Water Project: Dex

Student: Peter Baily

Project description

The DEX Filtration System collects and stores greywater and makes use of a totally natural filtration medium (Plant root systems). This ensures the DEX System blurs the lines between garden and product and by extension the line between the garden, a greywater treatment facility and outdoor architecture. It is a modular system that can be adapted (retrofitted) to suit practically any domestic setting or lifestyle not only in terms of capacity but also through its form.

The DEX System is a low maintenance, easily implemented, versatile and a beautiful solution to a growing problem. Unlike other products in the marketplace the DEX System is perfectly suited to its working environment. Through its innovative choice of filtration medium it stands alone on the market, surpassing consumer expectations.

About the Water Project

The Water Project is a collective of design inspired solutions to the international water crisis. Students from IEN Member, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have come together from a variety of design backgrounds. They include graduate and postgraduate students in Communication Design, Industrial Design, Multimedia Design, Information Technology and Science. This cross disciplinary/inter faculty project also included strategic student mentoring by Cardinalbrand, a highly respected Melbourne based brand management consultancy.

Water Project was established as a direct response to the 2008 INDEX:/ AIGA Aspen Design Challenge, a student competition titled, Designing Water's Future. This initiative encourages students to frame how we think about water, how we manage it, how we save it.

Project leader

Russell Kennedy, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication,
Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design

Links

Water Project website
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