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Sustainability Design Challenge Day 8 - Incorporating Sustainability Into Design
Do Now; Take 2 minutes to think about what sustainability is. In doing so:
1. Write down what sustainability means to you.
2. Write down what you think designers can do to design for sustainability.
LO: YWBAT categorize 4 areas in which design can promote sustainability.
Essential Question: At what point is a designer no longer responsible for his or her design?
- Classwork & Homework: Web search for sustainable products.
- Reflection on the sustainability of our water purification system.
Four Broad Categories:
1. Eco-design
2. Design for Purpose
3. Design for behavior
4. Systems design
Web Search: In groups of two, go to the computers and find a product that has been sustainably designed using one of the above practices of eco-design.
Placing an emphasis on user needs and motivations throughout the design process.
By creating a product that truly serves its users needs, users will not need to acquire other products that serve the same purpose.
Tonight's HW (reflection - submit via the form on make.nychscl.org): Last week we learned about interviewing for empathy. Today we learned about designing for purpose. Write a paragraph describing how the two are related. Conclude your writing by answer the following: How can the interviewing for empathy process help designers create more sustainable products?
Sustainability Design Challenge: Designing for Sustainability
Design for Purpose
Eco-Design
- Altering product design to reduce environmental impact.
This can be accomplished by:
1. Materials efficiency - reducing the materials required to create a product.
2. Environmentally-preferred materials - using materials that have a lower impact in their manufacture, use, or disposal.
3. Efficiency in use: products require fewer resources to operate.
Design's Potential Role in Achieving Sustainability
4. Disposal/recycling: "Cradle to grave" design mentality. Products are designed to be easily disassembled for recycling.