OUGD601 - Extended Essay Reading - Sustainable by Design by Stuart Walker

Notes and Quotes

pg 1

- design can be sustainable and functional

- sustainable design can create more meaning

pg 2

- focusses on environmental and social ideas which will develop design further

- design focussed on environmental and social issues which lead to new ideas

pg 3

- need to know the negative impact the current design is having

- reconsider what functional means and the aesthetics of these products

pg 5

- sustainable development definition is broader

- sustainability definition everyday

pg 6

- sustainable development may not be possible

pg 7

- reassess material consumerism

- designers can influence society by creating original work

- aesthetics and ideas about design need to be reconsidered

- focus in the aesthetics of design

- design in this way superficial

- similar aesthetics used which is proved to sell – create same things

pg 8

- safe market led design prevents meaningful design that can solve problems in society

- need to challenge preconceived ways of design

pg 9

- need to take different approaches for original design

pg 30

- companies consider profit before sustainability

pg 31

- can sustainability and business work together?

- Design with sustainability in mind rather than forcing design after it is finished to fit

pg 32

- current production and consumption unsustainable in numerous ways

- environment legislation stopped because of the effect on profit

pg 33

- the primary reason products are made is for profit in mind

- need to change way things are designed and produced for it to be sustainable

- change is slow and difficult

pg 34

- know what is sustainable but uncertain what sustainable is

- designers do not know everything

- making / designing things as they have always been is unoriginal

- aesthetics reflects our values and ideas

- same products reflective of society – consumerism – design for things to sell and appeal to the consumer

pg 35

- sustainable and industrial design not compatible

- they are opposites to one another

- defining specialisms within the profession suggests how things should be and that sustainable design is holistic

- specific specialisms in design at odds with holistic approach to sustainable design

pg 36

- need to use materials creatively and use what we have

- the meaning of objects is more important than the function for traditional cultures

pg 37

- amateur approach suggests it is done because of enjoyment

- sustainable design can solve environmental problems and create meaningful products

- by solving one brief / problem design contributes to environmental problem

- we have suggested changes / new approaches but we are not fully behind changes