Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design

2021-05-07 Design

Author : Mette Bak-Andersen
Release : 2021-05-07
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 766/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design by : Mette Bak-Andersen

Download or read book Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design written by Mette Bak-Andersen. This book was released on 2021-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design provides instrumental theory and practical guidance to bring materials back into a central role in the design process and education. To create designs that are sustainable and respond to current environmental, economic and cultural concerns, practitioners and educators require a clear framework for materials use in design and product manufacturing. While much has been written about sustainable design over the last two decades, outlining systems of sustainability and product criteria, to design for material circularity requires a detailed understanding of the physical matter that constitutes products. Designers must not just know of materials but know how to manipulate them and work with them creatively. This book responds to the gap by offering a way to acquire the material knowledge necessary to design physical objects for sustainability. It reinforces the key role and responsibility of designers and encourages designers to take back control over the ideation and manufacturing process. Finally, it discusses the educational practice involved and the potential implications for design education following implementation, addressing didactics, facilities and expertise. This guide is a must-read for designers, educators and researchers engaged in sustainable product design and materials.

Reintroducing Materials to Design for Sustainability

2021 Design

Author : Mette Bak-Andersen
Release : 2021
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 525/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reintroducing Materials to Design for Sustainability by : Mette Bak-Andersen

Download or read book Reintroducing Materials to Design for Sustainability written by Mette Bak-Andersen. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design provides instrumental theory and practical guidance to bring materials back into a central role in the design process and education. To create designs that are sustainable and respond to current environmental, economic, and cultural concerns, practitioners and educators require a clear framework for materials use in design and product manufacturing. While much has been written about sustainable design over the last two decades, outlining systems of sustainability and product criteria, to design for material circularity requires a detailed understanding of the physical matter that constitutes products. Designers must not just know of materials but know how to manipulate them and work with them creatively. This book responds to the gap by offering a way to acquire the material knowledge necessary to design physical objects for sustainability. It reinforces the key role and responsibility of designers and encourages designers to take back control over the ideation and manufacturing process. Finally, it addresses the educational practice involved and the potential implications for design education following implementation, looking at didactics, facilities and expertise. This guide is a must-read for designers, educators and researchers engaged in sustainable product design and materials"--

Design for Sustainability (Open Access)

2019-08-21 Design

Author : Fabrizio Ceschin
Release : 2019-08-21
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 952/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Design for Sustainability (Open Access) written by Fabrizio Ceschin. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It puts forward an innovation framework that is capable of coherently integrating multiple design for sustainability (DfS) approaches developed so far. It is now widely understood that design can and must play a crucial role in the societal transformations towards sustainability. Design can in fact act as a catalyst to trigger and support innovation, and can help to shape the world at different levels: from materials to products, product–service systems, social organisations and socio-technical systems. This book offers a unique perspective on how DfS has evolved in the past decades across these innovation levels, and provides insights on its promising and necessary future development directions. For design scholars, this book will trigger and feed the academic debate on the evolution of DfS and its next research frontiers. For design educators, the book can be used as a supporting tool to design courses and programmes on DfS. For bachelor’s and master’s level design, engineering and management students, the book can be a general resource to provide an understanding of the historical evolution of DfS. For design practitioners and businesses, the book offers a rich set of practical examples, design methods and tools to apply the various DfS approaches in practice, and an innovation framework which can be used as a tool to support change in organisations that aim to integrate DfS in their strategy and processes.

The Sustainable Design Book

2015-03-23 Design

Author : Rebecca Proctor
Release : 2015-03-23
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 243/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Sustainable Design Book written by Rebecca Proctor. This book was released on 2015-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainable Design Book updates the reader on the latest products and developments in the field of green design, and features 265 of the most exciting new products around. Q&As with leading designers give insight into trends and key techniques used within the industry, while handy icons highlight each product's sustainability credentials at a glance. Beginning with a chapter on sustainable materials, the book goes on to cover furniture, lighting, home accessories, and personal accessories. Web addresses of designers and retailers make each product easy to source. The Sustainable Design Book is an unbeatable resource for those aspiring to best practice within the field of sustainable design, as well as students of contemporary product design. Consumers looking for beautiful but environmentally conscious products and accessories will also find this an essential guide.

Design for Sustainability

2021-03-13 Technology & Engineering

Author : S. M. Sapuan
Release : 2021-03-13
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Design for Sustainability written by S. M. Sapuan. This book was released on 2021-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design for Sustainability: Green Materials and Processes provides fundamental and practical knowledge surrounding product development applications throughout the entire lifecycle of green materials, ranging from conceptual design, material and manufacturing process selection, and environmental lifecycle assessment. In addition, several topics covering recent advances in the application of sustainable design within the automotive, building and construction, packaging and consumer product industries are also included in this book to provide practical examples of this philosophy in current applications. Lastly, a section on implementation of design for sustainability in education is added to aid readers that wish to introduce this philosophy to younger students. This book will be beneficial to researchers, students in higher education institutions, design practitioners and engineers in private and public sector organization with aspirations to develop sustainable products in the future. Design for sustainability is one of the primary focuses in human advancement nowadays, with the aim of developing products and services that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Provides an overview on materials and process design for sustainability Discusses theoretical aspects about design for sustainability Includes a discussion of the most recent advances and applications in design for sustainability

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