Joanne Jones

Industrial Design, 2017

Vive is an interrelated beekeeping service and beehive, harmonious in purpose and form, that aims to educate new beekeepers and remedy gaps between knowledge and application.

Humans rely on bees to pollinate 70% of the staple crops that provide 90% of the world’s food. Unfortunately, numbers of wild and domestic honeybees have drastically decreased within the past three decades due to pollution, disease, pesticides, and natural habitat loss. This decrease contributes to a potential loss of fruits and vegetables that are vital to the human diet. Vive demonstrates the connection between bee health and food supply while informing users about the environmental concerns associated with bee population loss. This beekeeping system increases awareness among Vive users in hope to generate greater action toward environmental efforts on all fronts.

The nucleus of this beekeeping system is the Vive Hive. Aspiring beekeepers purchase the beehive and begin a one year membership with Vive to connect with a mentor and learn to keep bees. Vive members can monitor their bee colony, schedule appointments with mentors, and learn new information through the Vive App.

Southwest sprouted and Midwest grown, Joanne Jones studies Industrial Design and Sustainability
in order to effect change within the contemptible consumer culture in which we reside. Her voracious hunger for acquiring new information and skills enables her to form a more holistic understanding of this world. She hopes to utilize her unique skill set consisting of industrial design, design research, and environmental studies to produce innovative sustainable solutions. These solutions will benefit humans and the environment in order to make a positive influence on the future of humanity and the world sustaining us.