Today, more than ever we are living in a society built upon consumption and pollution. We wanted to change this pessimistic outlook to the future and make people adapt to sustainable lifestyles.

We did research and we saw that people gain habits harder and harder when they have to go out of their comfort zones, and also most of the sustainability habits are out of their comfort zones. Therefore, we believed in design were, people will step by step change their habits and convert their world into a better place. For this, we came up with Applanet, which is an application. In Applanet, you will build your world to preserve some badges. You need to repeat the same action in a limited timeframe. For example, if you gave water and food to street animals, you would get a dog badge, and dogs will appear in your world. However, if you do not repeat this action in a week, dogs will disappear from your world. In other words, the message is, you can shape the world, but you have to keep repeating your actions to sustain this beautiful world.

For stakeholders, in the future, we might need to work with the Engineering Faculty and have advisors for the marketing of this application, since we will need to have a strong marketing strategy to succeed.

For now, our biggest resources are our motivation to leave behind a better world and create sustainability habits in people who use our app. You can share your Applanet world on different social media platforms and invite your friends to change and create their worlds too!

If you wish to learn more about our project, please visit the our Medium post!