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Sustainable Design Education:

Sustainable Design Education:. Students take charge of creating a clean, green university. Nicola Bould. Design history Form & function Human factors Material selection Manufacturing processes Interaction between user and product Sustainable design ?. Introduction.

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Sustainable Design Education:

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  1. Sustainable Design Education: Students take charge of creating a clean, green university Nicola Bould

  2. Design history Form & function Human factors Material selection Manufacturing processes Interaction between user and product Sustainable design? Introduction The terms ‘sustainable design’ and ‘product design’ appear to be polar opposites Moggridge, 2007

  3. Comp -rubbish How often do we judge designer objects on superficial values? How do we believe we are cutting edge designers when we are producing consumer products that are made using un-renewable resources, polluting processes or encourage un-sustainable behaviour?

  4. Balance Can product designers balance ‘desirable’ (appealing and engaging to consumers) with ‘sustainable’ (environmentally acceptable and can continue indefinitely)? Charter & Tischner, 2001

  5. Design Brief Create a product, system or service to reduce waste (paper, trash, recyclables, organic, energy or water) which is useful, usable, desirable and sustainable. To 27 students taking full year papers: DESI 301 Product Design Two In conjunction with DETE 321 Professional Design Project

  6. Research Research Free exploration = student + digital camera

  7. Bibliographic search

  8. Field research Understanding the problems and achievements of recycling Audit of waste | Visit recycling centres | Meet experts in waste minimisation | Interview peers, academic staff, general staff & cleaners User observations = students observed fellow students and staff

  9. Design Outcomes Aluminium construction clips onto the current bin frames. Three bin bags securely attach to legs. Retrofits existing bins RetroCycle Bottle & Can Recycling Trash Paper Recycling

  10. Design Outcomes Tri-Cycle Retro fits existing small bins Uses same symbols as RetroCycle

  11. Design Outcomes Located next to the library Poster/sticker campaign advertises paper recycling Paper Tower Paper stacks; covers trees. Aim is to reduce amount of paper waste

  12. Design Outcomes Plugs directly into computer LED White Light Brightness controlled from desktop Light goes blue when computer sleeps

  13. Design Outcomes Info station on Leith Bridge Bridge over Leith… Users interacting with info station Hydro Power …becomes the home to the Hydro Power Station

  14. Design Outcomes lowtec.furniture@gmail.com One shape creates a multitude of furniture Lowtech Furniture z stool

  15. Sustainable Product Design Useful considers the point of view of the user & queries if the product does its job. Useable questions whether the product fits the hand & mind of the human being. Desirable determines how appealing & engaging the product is to consumers. + Sustainable ?

  16. cradle-to-grave

  17. cradle-to-cradle McDonough & Braungart, 2002 z

  18. Sustainable Economy Triple Bottom Line: Economic prosperity, Environmental quality & Social justice Elkington, J. (2005). Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. Connecticut, United States: New Society Publishers.

  19. Better by design Better by Design, New Zealand “Design for the Environment” “Does design shape your enterprise?”

  20. Sustainable Design Education RMIT >> www.cfd.rmit.edu.au Surrey >> www.cfsd.org.uk Carnegie Mellon >> www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign www.io.tudelft.nl www.innovationspace.org www.lboro.ac.uk/

  21. Design Evaluation The project promotedsocial responsibility and challenged student’s ideas about both the design process and their own ethical considerations. However… Has the year provided the students with enough knowledge to ensure they practise sustainable solutions themselves?

  22. Questionnaire “The reason this started was because one of our lecturers, Nicola Bould, got us to write a submission for the Dunedin City Council waste strategy….” Questionnaire results lowtec.furniture@gmail.com Evans, 2007

  23. References Charter, M., & Tishner, U. (2001). Sustainable Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future.Sheffield, England: Greenleaf Publications. Evans, L. (2007). Dunedin Designs. Organic NZ (Soil and Health Association) January/February. Flannery, T. (2005). The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company Datschefski, E. (2001). The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products. England: Rotovision.

  24. References Gore, A. (2006). An Inconvenient Truth. United States: Rodale Books. Moggridge, B. (2007) Designing Interactions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Stern, N. (2006). Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. McDonough, W., & Braungart, M. (2002). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things. New York, United States: North Point Press.

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