I have been given a task to ask myself how design can change
the world, for the past week I have been stressing out about this task because
I couldn’t think where to start. However, I tried my best this is probably
wrong but this what I think about sustainable design and ideas relevant to my
learning.
How Design Can Change
the World
Changing the world by design. Its happening now but more
needs to be done. Through research I have found a lot about how design can
change the world and save it. I am not an expert but there are many people out
there waiting to get their chance to decide what could be life-changing ideas.
“it’s a superpower, and with it you can change the world” we
are still currently in a world of design where we dig the materials up from Africa,
make them in Asia and about six months later they’ve been stuck in a hole in
the ground. Recycling first came about thousands of years ago as the ancient
cultures melted down old broken tools and swords and making new ones. But became most popular in the 1970’s, as
mass production took over in the industrial age you could buy items more
cheaply and when they broke throw the old items away and purchase brand new
ones.
Recycling suffered for many years, and as the years went by
the public acceptance and the market for recycled goods were not growing. So
the improved economics and laws requiring recycled public collections or
enforcing content in certain manufacturing processes.
To improve the economy, “essential aspect of widening efforts to conceive
an ecologically responsible world.” In
other words a sustainable building must, by nature, be constructed using
locally sustainable materials, such as materials that can be used sourced
without harming the environment. There are other key elements to achieve this
by sourcing local and reducing the need to import and export. A good example of
local sourcing when you visit another county you realize that the building
materials are different, for example in the typical Cotswolds village made with
Cotswolds stone constructed homes and the difference from Essex you would come
across weather board.
If material is locally sourced and can be found locally
travelling can be kept to a minimum, reducing the harmful fuel emissions.
Travel, through the use of electricity sourced by solar panels. The carbon
dioxide emissions can be cut down from the decrease of the gas fuelled diesel
and petrol engines.
My conclusion is there are many more possibilities in design
to change the world; we just need the public to support who design. The way
that people are now creating, designing and producing sustainable design in
cars and houses and other appliances. The world can be changed. Could there be
a mass production in looking into the old design of ships where they could have
sails and electric motors powering the propellers? And also the design of more
buildings making use of the sun, not just pretty rays that light up the earth. Be
positively eco friendly where you can sit in the natural sunlight, and generate
your own electricity from the solar panels on your roof replacing the oil/gas
boiler.
Bibliography
Websites:
Books:
McCloud, K., 2012. THE BEST OF GRAND
DESIGNS. London: Collins
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