Thursday, 21 January 2010

Technology and Sustainability Lecture

Globalisation

Socialist - Transformation of local/regional phenomenon into global ones.
Capitalist - Elimination of state enforced restrictions on exchanges across borders.

Sustainability

- Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
- Being able to co-exist with another system indefinatly without either being damaged.

'Most things arent designed for the needs of the people but for the needs of the manufacturers to sell to people.' Viktor Papanek 1983

Supply and Demand

Manufacturing Life Cycle

Manufacture - Consumption - In-built Obsolescence (things built not to last)

Credit/Money - Money = Consumption - Consumption = Manufacture

Eco ethical Parameters

Design for Development
Unfair Trade affected poverty alleviation.
Design for Sustainability
Farming/production methods for cloth. Unsustainable - toxic emissions, pesticides, biogradability.
Design for Remake
Abundance of discarded products that still have life in them
Design for Disposal
Biogradability and disposal. Limited carrying capacity for land fill.
Design for Performance and Durability
Losing attachment to products and buying into fast fashion.

The Hanover Principles

Remaking the way we make things.

People Tree
Recycling design
Vexed Generation
Hussein Chalayan
Refuge Wear
Lucy Orta

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