Designing the cow

The cow was designed slowly and in a complicating process. At first everyone had put out their ideas to the class. Afterwards we had put them all together onto two big pieces of paper. It was then transferred onto the computer.

There were two sides of the cow. The first side was the barbeque. The design for this side of the cow would be to have a barbeque that was built into the cow. You could open the door where there would be a hole cut into the cow. This barbeque would have meat placed into them. The meat would then have the status of the meat production. The world drawn on would focus on the main countries that Australia exports livestock and beef into. A clothesline connecting from the other side of the cow would be connected to the barbeque.

Then we would have a blanket that was stiffened and add all sorts of models like a homeless person and little people to represent the community, falling out of the blanket. Miss King’s idea was to have the homeless girl hanging onto the blanket to represent the organisations that were using donations and etc. to ensure the homeless were fed and clothed properly. The people who were falling out of the blanket would also represent the variety of members of the community. We designed for the people to be elderly, mums and dads, little children and a high school student.

There would also be ships and worlds falling out of the blanket. The countries would represent the wider community of exports of livestock, beef and veal. We researched the countries with the highest percentage of beef exports. Those three countries were America, Japan and Korea. Roads were designed for trucks and trolleys. The trucks and trolleys would show the products that would help and feed our local community. The trolleys would be designed to have by-products made from cows like soap, brushes, etc. Buildings that help with selling products would be made and stuck onto. We thought of exaggerating the buildings. The main sellers of Australia are Coles, Woolworths, Aldi and Costco. Muscles were designed to be painted on the legs. This was because the main part that we eat for meat on a cow is the muscles.

The roads will be continuing from the other side of the cow to represent that the two sides of the cow are connected in sustainably feeding and farming a community for one day. We took advantage of the cow looking forwards to represent the future. The cow would have a space station and a rocket taking cows to the moon. We would have Ag Chat Oz as farmer’s use social media technologies to be able to talk to each other and they can tell each other information about sustainable farming.