I was particularly curious about this panel to see how design education was talking about sustainability
Peter Fine and Eric Peacock
Re-Form and Re-Design: Design Education and Ethics
Understanding systems that graphic design is part of
Messages crafted to address behaviors
Imperatives
Looked at 60s and 70s. Stuart Brand and how materials were viewed.
Maybe the problem to be addresses isn't tangle objects but systems. Confront impending lack of resources.
Looking at designer as reforming systems for a better life.
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Paul J. Nini
A Design Seminar Course Addressing Issues of Ethics + Sustainability
Course placing issue of sustainability into context of design ethics
Readings:
Design for Society, Nigel Whisiely (?)
Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek
Cradle to Cradle
What student do in the class:
Project outline of what reading was about and pose questions for the disucssion
And write something about their response.
Films:
Inconvenient Truth
Corporation
Who Killed the Electric Car
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solution from Curatiba, Brazil
Energy Crossroads
Class is all about awareness
Students identify issues
Small scale projects proposed and investigated
Personal project that raise awareness (diagrams showing their own consumption)
Outcomes
Students become painfully aware of issues in consumer society.
Explore ways design can become more sustainable and ethical
Move beyond initial ideas about what design practice might be.
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Aaris Sharin
Place, Space, and Opportunity: Designers confront sustainability challenges
What happens after school in practice?
Case Studies:
TwoTwelve
Making a living and thriving
TwoTwelve has library has library of materials but decided to "take on sustainability"
Conceptually considered sustainability in the studio: Created a checklist of how to look at every project.
Represents easily implementable targets and can easily evolve as context evolves.
Noah Scale (?)
Designs to what's already on press. Being flexible.
Michael Hardt
Educator working in Norway
Rethinking Packaging Lifecycle
Potato pak that dissolve within product lifecycle
michaelhardt.com
Sebastian Guerrini
Sustainability in Argentina. Paper already very expensive and not recycled so lives sustainable design by necessity.
Eco-materials exhibit. Recycling and reusing.
Tackled how to draw an audience.
Tricycle: is a Sustainable Design Company. Developing Markets Innovation Repurposing.
Don't assume outcome of design (posters, booklets, websites)
Example show for carpet industry by creating other way for carpet samples. Went to interior designers to change behavior, but not received well. Offered alternatives to corporations.
Blink (interactive website they created to show carpet in home and sticky notes of carpets. See "Set."
Also created system for "parasitic" binders. "Nood."
Aaris Sharin's book:
SustainAble
A case study book/field guide.
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