Mia Dreher
mndreher99@gmail.com
Bio
Mia Dreher is an honors student at UWM working towards a BFA in Design and Visual Communication and a certificate in Digital Design and Fabrication. She is always passionate about finding opportunities to research and learn, and design affords her the chance to combine those academic processes with her adoration for creating and making. She is fortunate to also combine these same passions working for the Manfred Olson Planetarium as a production designer.
Combining her Design and Visual Communications studies with her Digital Design and Fabrication studies pushes Mia to consider design in its many forms. This interdisciplinary work encourages her to think about design beyond the screen, thinking about kinetics, interaction, and dimensionality in the same ways she considers color, typography, and hierarchy.
Mia’s involvement at the planetarium and in the Honors College has developed her curiosity. Learning about anything and everything helps develop her skills in research, writing, and critical thinking, while strengthening her ability to design for a variety of audiences. Combining traditional academic experience and design practice is ideal in developing her dedication to problem solving and ability to work both collaboratively and independently towards creative and innovative solutions as a designer.
Design Team
Team Person 1:
Mentor: Emma Oldehoeft
Team Person 2:
Design Student: Lauren Robertson
Team Person 3:
User Testing: Ariana Strupp
High School & Notable Teachers
Hononegah Community High School
Arra Van Galder
Description
Bagged is an initiative to make local, low waste products and practices available to the masses at a lower cost. Through guidance from environmentalists, local businesses/ vendors, and designers, Bagged seeks to offer a shopping experience that is convenient, comfortable, and educational, encouraging its customers to look to their community, rather than chain retailers. Sustainability has spent too long being an all-or-nothing luxury, used as a token to promote major retailers and one’s own image. Bagged seeks to end this stigma and make sustainability something practiced and possible for everyone. Our goal is to provide a space for low waste education and consumption by leading by example in low-waste practices. We know that going zero-waste isn’t possible for everyone, so instead of promoting the impossible, we want to enable better habits. Being conscious of personal waste is something that requires practice, working small habits or changes into everyday life. These should never be disruptive, or any more complex than a basic household chore. By providing products that take out extra steps and the services to make remaining steps easier, Bagged does away with utilizing intimidation or shame tactics, working towards a greener, healthier community alongside our consumers.
Mission
Bagged is an initiative to make low waste product affordable and accessible.
Vision
Low waste shouldn’t be high cost.
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