Sustainable design describes a design philosophy that values the natural environment as an integral factor in creating new products or modifying old ones.Sustainable designs try to maximize overall efficiency with surrounding resources, such as transportation such as well as energy efficiency, habitat preservation and restoration, natural and renewable energy sources, water conservation, recycled, local and non – toxic materials, and healthy and productive interiors.
Learning about green buildings; environmentally friendly and cradle-to- cradle design; when designing you’re already thinking of how it can be reborn again.
Planned obsolescence; how long the product is going to stay good and how much it will be used. It’s based on the concept of intentionally limiting the life of products so that the consumers are manipulated into consuming more.
The conflicting views:
1. Keeps workers/designers in employment and helps the economy
2. Waste is created by the premature replacement of the commodities
For example batteries, unless they are un rechargeable they’re useless. They’re also things you’d buy while knowing you’d be throwing it away for example Gillette razors and Make up refills instead of buying the whole products again.
Planned obsolescence can arise from:
1. Change in appearance/style: cookers from others and microwaves
2. Change in technology: from Samsung s4 to Samsung s5
Cradle to cradle:
It’s a method to minimize the environmental impact of products by employing sustainable production operation and disposable practice and aims to incorporate social responsibility into product development
Under the cradle to cradle philosophy products are evaluated for sustainability and efficiency in manufacturing processes material properties and toxicity as well as potential to reuse materials through recycling or composting.
Notes were taken in class.
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