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The article exposes findings on the lack of ability of users to perceive the volume of water consumption and associate it with their daily activities. For such effect, the phenomenon of interfaces of water saving products on the market, which are more often focused on consumers who have more demand for it is explained (Moles, 1972). However, as products, they do not express their saving qualities through use, but only in times of purchase or paying consumption bills, where the user can easily confuse them with other factors, without perceiving their real impact and, after making confusing consumption estimates, they can identify any anomaly or simply when returns on investment in them are not perceived. The research findings are generated from the results of a methodological exercise of action-research, in which you can explore current solutions in search of new products, which beyond passive profit, incorporate readings about our acting in the dimension of consciousness, not so much in the approach to morality, as in that of the required responsibility (Schvarstein, 2003). Much of the theoretical foundation of the methodology used is presented. It describes and details its different stages on the basis of what is developed in the first cycle of the project Exhausts "Explorative interfaces of household water saving products development". It describes the application of the action-research methodology in the project and concludes by exposing its first qualitative findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How to intervene the territory of a vulnerable community? This was the question that we attempted to respond, from the research project called Physical and spatial interventions through design and participatory construction in areas of environmental interest: the case of trail, garden center and soccer field Niños de los Andes (Children of the Andes) Foundation (2015). The project was developed between the Catholic University of Manizales, the Architecture program and the Niños de los Andes Manizales (Children of the Andes, Manizales) Foundation. The relationship between the inhabitant and the place he occupies was studied, with the aim of identifying criteria to transform, reconstruct, improve, and enhance spatial relationships between the inhabitants of the Foundation and three spaces that are favorable to meditation, education, and recreation of a community of children of ages ranging from 7 to 17. This process raised a strategy of community participation in order to engage the population with activities about these spaces and to try to transcend them into places in pursuit of generating a sense of belonging. This brings into play various aspects that guide the case study: identifying who occupies it, what they feel in and for this place, how they live it, etc. This is done hand in hand with a spatial analysis as landscape structure with a shape, a topography, a fauna and a flora, but also the possibility of projecting it from the institutional philosophy of the Foundation and the desire and need for its inhabitants to lead a change in their sense of life toward much better and more inclusive horizons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]