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Nicola Bould | [email protected]
Sustainable Design Education:Students take charge of creating a clean, green university
Nicola Bould
Nicola Bould | [email protected]
The terms ‘sustainable design’ and ‘product design’ appear to be polar opposites
Design history
Form & function
Human factors
Material selection
Manufacturing processes
Interaction between user and product
Sustainable design?
Introduction
Moggridge, 2007
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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?
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Can product designers balance ‘desirable’ (appealing and engaging to consumers) with ‘sustainable’ (environmentally acceptable and can
continue indefinitely)?Charter & Tischner, 2001
Balance
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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 TwoIn conjunction with DETE 321 Professional Design Project
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Audit of waste | Visit recycling centres | Meet experts in waste minimisation | Interview peers, academic staff, general staff & cleaners
Understanding the problems and achievements of recycling
User observations = students observed fellow students and staff
Field research
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Design OutcomesRetroCycle
Retrofits existing bins
Bottle & Can
Recycling
Trash Paper Recycling
Aluminium construction clips onto the current bin
frames. Three bin bags securely
attach to legs.
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Tri-Cycle
Retro fits existing small bins
Design Outcomes
Uses same symbols as RetroCycle
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Design OutcomesPaper Tower
Located next to the library Poster/sticker campaign advertises paper recycling
Paper stacks; covers trees. Aim is to reduce amount of paper waste
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Design OutcomesLED White Light
Plugs directly into computer
Light goes blue when computer sleeps
Brightness controlled from desktop
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Design OutcomesHydro Power
Bridge over Leith…
…becomes the home to the Hydro Power Station
Users interacting with info station
Info station on Leith Bridge
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Design OutcomesLowtech Furniture
z stool
One shape creates a multitude of furniture
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Sustainable Product Design
Desirable determines how appealing & engaging the product is to consumers.
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.
+ Sustainable ?
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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.
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Better by design
“Design for the Environment” “Does design shape your enterprise?”
Better by Design,
New Zealand
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Sustainable Design Education
Surrey >> www.cfsd.org.uk
RMIT >> www.cfd.rmit.edu.au
www.io.tudelft.nl
www.innovationspace.org
www.lboro.ac.uk/
Carnegie Mellon >>
www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign
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However…
Design Evaluation
Has the year provided the students with enough
knowledge to ensure they practise sustainable solutions themselves?
The project promoted social responsibility and
challenged student’s ideas about both the design process and their own ethical considerations.
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“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….” [email protected]
Questionnaire results
Evans, 2007
Questionnaire
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References
Datschefski, E. (2001). The Total Beauty of Sustainable
Products. England: Rotovision.
Evans, L. (2007). Dunedin Designs. Organic NZ (Soil and Health Association) January/February.
Charter, M., & Tishner, U. (2001). Sustainable Solutions:
Developing Products and Services for the Future.
Sheffield, England: Greenleaf Publications.
Flannery, T. (2005). The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company
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References
Gore, A. (2006). An Inconvenient Truth. United
States: Rodale Books.
Stern, N. (2006). Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Moggridge, B. (2007) Designing Interactions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
McDonough, W., & Braungart, M. (2002). Cradle to Cradle:
Remaking the way we make things. New York, United States: North Point Press.