tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44855363915007133362024-03-13T07:02:15.497-07:00Sustainable Design Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01346306426239466068noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485536391500713336.post-14901149455779639982014-01-12T17:29:00.004-08:002014-01-12T17:29:49.077-08:00Blog Reflection<!--StartFragment-->
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I really enjoyed my chosen elective of
Sustainable Design. The series of lectures really opened my eyes to the amount
of work designers are performing to help promote and encourage
sustainability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lectures
taught me not only about the problems within our current environment, but also
the solutions that creative’s are coming up with to help solve them. TED’s Ten
strategies revealed different methods of how change can be made. The ten
strategies also helped me section each design and designer into different
categories on what and the reasons why for their designs.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Learning about environmental issues around
the world really fascinated me, as well as learning about design solutions for
them. This elective revealed to me the vast amount of creativity and energy
there is behind the sustainable design industry. I had no idea before hand how
alive and relevant it is to our every day lives. When thinking about my own
designs now, I am much more conscious of the implications and consequences of
certain design choices. In the future, I hope to design sustainably, for a
customer that is aware of their environmental impact and desire to change it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The system of a blog helped me keep all my research findings and thoughts in a clarified format.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Throughout the elective I have become more
and more interested in the social side of sustainable design. Design that
improves the welfare of those who help make the products really inspires me. I
hope that my designs can benefit people in that way someday too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one of our very first lectures we
learnt about the designer Florie Salnot. Salnot is a designer who created a
method of making beautifully delicate and unique jewelry using plastic bottles
from Saharawi. These pieces are created by women from refugee camps in the
desert, giving them financial independence since living in exile. I love the
simplicity of taking something that once was rubbish like a plastic bottle and
turning it into a treasured object that changes people’s lives. By thinking of
alternative uses for unwanted objects, the environment as well as the people
within it can be saved. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Before I studied sustainable design in any
depth, I thought that sustainable design was less beautiful because the
aesthetics had to be sacrificed due to the production. This elective opened my
eyes to the stunning sustainable designs across the world. A design company
that really stood out to me aesthetically was Studio Swine. They married the
idea of sustainably and beauty perfectly in lots of their products. Their ‘Hair
Glasses’ is an example of unique and beautiful. Not only this, being made from
human hair, the product is biodegradable and therefore sustainable too. There
is so much more value in sustainable products than just aesthetics, the story
behind them adds to their physical appearance. If something is made with
consideration to the environment and the people within it, in my eyes it makes
the product so much more valuable. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sustainable design to me is about working
with what is available and exploring the different possibilities to the
solutions of design we have today. Our environment is in continuous change
therefore our design solutions need constantly changing too. It’s exciting to
have had the opportunity to explore what sustainable designers are currently researching
and creating. Design is an integral part of our environments future, which is
an exciting prospect yet a huge responsibility for designers around the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Agbogbloshie is a destination site for electronic waste. Migrants from rural areas inhabit the site, earning money from scavenging for metals in the waste. Many illegal cargo containers arrive in Ghana to unload waste from countries such as the UK and America. Unprotected workers, may of them children, sift through the waste for precious metals. Plastics are melted down, emitting toxic fumes and chemicals into the atmosphere and water. </div>
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The area is known to be outside the control of the police, therefore crime is rife. Locals call Agbogbloshie 'Sodom and Gomarrah" after the two condemned Biblical cities. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Possibly one of the most environmentally friendly ways of transportation would be by sail boat. The ocean makes up such a vast proportion of our earth, what better way to explore it than with the wind in your sails! </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Swoon is a American street artist who constructed a raft from New York City garbage and scrap material. 'The Swimming Cities' rafts were then sailed from Slovenia to Venice with the help of a team of anarchists. The rafts are built with reused materials symbolising the freedom that comes with self reliance. The boats are an embodiment of the philosophy of reusing found materials and waste.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">However these boats do run on fuel. “We’re not perfect,” Swoon says. “How much jet fuel was used to fly all of us here? But we’re not going to let being imperfect stop us. If you are too rigid in your ethics, you undo positive action.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Another design aim of TED is to create using recycling or upcycling. Lallitara is a great example of recycling saris from India into unique products. By saving what would have been thrown into landfill, recycling these saris also means less environmental damage is created in the manufacturing stages. </span></div>
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The technique of upcycling means that all the products created are totally unique, which gives a bespoke and personalised feeling to the garments. </div>
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One of the aims of "TED's Ten' is 'Design to Reduce Energy and Water Use.' The dyeing of textiles uses vast quantities of water and therefore is incredibly polluting. Scientists have created a way of minimising the water usage in the dying process. Silkworm larvae are fed on a diet of dyed mulberry leaves, which naturally coloured their usually white cocoons. Experimentations on this type of dyeing are far from finished, but scientists are well on their way to create intrinsically dyed silks.</div>
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The North Circular is fashion brand that embraces the skills and talents of grandmothers across the country. The products are all either hand made or hand woven. The designing process ignores trends, rather choosing to focus on the consistency of skill. The brand encourages the long term use of their products. The garments are made using ethical wool from rescued Wensleydale sheep, housed at the sanctuary in North Yorkshire. Their mantra is, "Do what you can with what you've got where you are."</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">"With us you're receiving a high quality item that is ethical, supporting high standards of animal welfare, it is eco/green with low mileage, minimal packaging, supporting UK industries, traditional arts and crafts."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The North Circular. 2014. </span></span><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The North Circular</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. [ONLINE] Available at: </span></span><u><a href="http://thenorthcircular.com/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://thenorthcircular.com/</span></span></a></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. [Accessed 26 December 13]</span></span>.</blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">CRED Jewellery . 2014. </span><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">CRED Jewellery</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">. [ONLINE] Available at: </span><u><a href="http://www.credjewellery.com/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.credjewellery.com/</span></a></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">. [Accessed 25 December 13].</span></blockquote>
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The photojournalist Stuart Matthews travelled to Bangladesh on what ended up to be a three year trip to investigate a meet the people that the countries cyclones have affected. Due to the flooding, mass migration from the countryside to the countries capital is growing to be a big problem in Bangladesh. Shantytowns are growing rapidly, by 2025 the predicted population of the capital, Dhaka, will be 20 million people. </div>
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Dwellers in these shanty towns are forced to take out unregulated loans to pay for rent, water and electricity. The water is polluted, causing illness throughout these towns. To pay their way, these people are forced to work low income jobs for relentless hours in places like garment factories. This situation is almost impossible to escape, until they find employment that will pay them a fair wage for an appropriate amount of work. </div>
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Matthews states, "The Bangladeshi people are very strong, they seem to adapt a lot, something that really affected me and inspired me to keep going back.”</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01346306426239466068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485536391500713336.post-65379909044713170512013-12-04T08:08:00.001-08:002013-12-04T08:08:07.026-08:00Fashion and Sustainable Design<!--StartFragment-->
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Fashion is in a
state of constant flux. What is popular in fashion changes continually. Thus
the fashion industry causes strain on natural resources. Typically, Fashion and
sustainability do not coincide. However, they need not conflict. Change is
something that should be celebrated and not condemned. Changes encourages
creativity and new solutions, its what keeps our design world alive. The
continually changing fashion industry creates a constant flow of money and
employment. Change allows us to adapt to our environment, instead of using out
of date ideas and opinions. A design industry without change would not only be
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<span lang="EN-US">However a
continuously changing fashion industry can create shallow values. We expect
newness and easily bore of garments after just a few months. ‘Clothing sales
have increased by 60% in the last ten years.’ (Oakdene Hollins, 2006) One of
TED’s 10 strategies is to ‘Design to Replace the Need to Consume.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The value of garments are usually based
on their aesthesis. By taking small evolutionary steps we can shift this value
to the quality and ethical construction of products. The idea of sustainable
design is much like the fashion industry. Our tries at sustainability will not
be perfect initially; instead constant change will perfect our ideas. Sustainability
needs constant refinement and therefore needs constant change, much like the fashion
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Nothing Design
Group explores the relationship between people are their environment. Their
work is inspired by the oriental philosophy of ‘nothing’ and how this can be
designed into something. The collection of transparent wind fishes are
simplistic yet beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hung on
large poles around a riverfront, the piece plays with the idea of perspective;
the viewer questions the sky to be the sea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smaller fishes were given out for people to hang on their
bicycles, giving the design an interactive feel. This idea of playing with the
rigidity of urban space coincides the ideas previously stated, of how playfulness
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Sustainable design is about the exploration
of alternative possibilities of the products and systems of our current
material culture. We need to take a fresh look on how we understand materials
and products. Most products on the market today are wholly judged on their
aesthetic value. Behind their attractiveness they are usually damaging to the
environment and people. New design solutions need to be generated that deal
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collective that defy existing classifications of design and reconsider
boundaries. Their manifesto reads, ‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Beauty and experience with minimal means,
always with a twist. Not so much less is more, as less and more.’</span></div>
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designer, Tejo Remy, piled together found draws into a chest like pile. The
piece encourages us to reconsider the idea of value, and the histories and
lives of objects. </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remy gives revalue to what would usually have been
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It can be argued that the main motivations of human life are to create,
to produce and to consume. The idea of consumption has become an integral part
of our daily lives, the idea of humans not consuming, in my view, is an overly
optimistic one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, for a
more sustainable future, we should steer our consumption tendencies to more
sustainable alternatives, instead of most of the products that are on the
market today. Sustainable progress can be achieved step by step through the
exploration and experiment of design. Currently the appeal of most products on
the market to consumers is their aesthetic value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The role of sustainable designers is to divert the consumers
desires away from aesthetic appeal and towards the appeals of ethical
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Sophy Stoenner creates fur trimmings from the fur that has naturally fallen out of animals. After discovering the fur market trade is increasing, she set out to create ethically created fur trimmings, to counter act to brutality behind the current market. </div>
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Stoenner collected animal fur that had naturally fallen from the animal. By combing and cutting, no animal was harmed in creating her trimmings. The trimmings still have the sophistication and luxury of antique furs, yet without the cruelity. </div>
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BioElectric is a project that explores the process of making Bio-plastics from the unwanted and abundant material of crab shells. The production of the plastic is chemical free and much healthier for workers to manufacture. Here are some examples of castings to cover electronic products made from the crab shell bio-plastic. </div>
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Hyun Jin Jeong explored South Korea and the UK rediscovering the potential of earth and its dying qualities. The technique of dying with earth has been used for centuries. The colour palate from earth is surprisingly wide ranging, the tones changing subtly according to where the earth has been collected. The colours sourced where separated into 7 different colour groups. The soil based paint is the painted directly onto fabric. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">TFRC Research. 2013. </span><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Short Life</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">. [ONLINE] Available at: </span><u><a href="http://www.tfrc.org.uk/research/short-life/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.tfrc.org.uk/research/short-life/</span></a></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">. [Accessed 23 October 13].</span></blockquote>
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Here is an example of how sustainable resources can be used to create unique and beautiful products. Studio Swine is an a collaboration that focuses not only on the aesthetic beauty of their products, but also the sustainability of the systems and materials used.</div>
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Hair Glasses explored the potential of human hair, and how it can be used as a renewable material that is being produced in excess. The glasses frames are biodegradable and no harmful substances are released during production. </div>
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To me, the aesthetic appearance of products should not be compromised when designing sustainably. Studio Swine are a perfect example of balancing the two. </div>
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Florie Salnot was one of the designers that really stood out to me during todays lecture. Through her jewellery designs, she has encouraged the independence of women in refugee camps. With few resources to hand, Salnot creates bespoke jewelry pieces from plastic bottles. Created in a refugee camp in Saharawi, the technique uses only hot sand, bottles and a little paint. </div>
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