Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies
Regenerative design: meet the creatives taking a rooting interest in learning from nature
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The design world reinvents assumptions and recombines ideas to turn “What if?” and “How might we?” into “What we can do.” Design thinking will be critical in taking the world of Collaborative Consumption out of the realm of possibilities and into real workable solutions, solutions that fulfill our consumer whims, desires, and unarticulated needs, b
... See moreRachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
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Taking on a holistic approach to design and systems’ thinking can help us understand how different elements relate to each other — and helps us remember that the world is an interconnected web. Everything we design is part of a whole that has a wider social and ecological impact.
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Design has evolved to meet the challenge of the new relationship between people and the material goods they need. Today, designers — artisans, manufacturers, engineers, architects — think far beyond the way things look. Comparing pre-industrial design to post-industrial design with a picture is absurd. Critiquing a modern object based on its appear... See more
Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
Out of disparate scholarship and studies, scholars in the United Kingdom have identified five core strategies for circular design:
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
The Circular Economy—Designing for longevity and reuse of materials beyond the first use