If 'decisions made in design are responsible for eighty to ninety percent of a product's environmental and economic costs' (Graedel et al. 1995) what are designers meant to do about this?
TED's 10
1. Design to Minimise Waste
2. Design for Recycling/Upcycling
3. Design to Reduce Chemical Impacts
4. Design to Reduce Energy & Water use
5. Design that explores Cleaner/Better Technologies
6. Design that Looks at Models from Nature & history
7. Design to Replace the Need to Consume
8. Design for Ethical Production
9. Design to Dematerialise & Develop Systems/Services
10. Design Activism
Humans have not only prospered and created fantastic technology they have also damaged and depleted many of the world's resources. We are using up more than we can produce. Must reduce human's ecological footprint! Need to not be limited by what we can use but use resources cleverly and considerately. Consider design strategies for change and how inspiring designers have begun to target the growing global, economic and environmental waste.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
1. People first and from the heart
2. Aesthetics/beauty - needs to be attractive and sustainable
3. Innovation for sustainability - is not limiting
We need to create things that aren't wasteful; that put back into the universe what we take out...
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