Lecture in design thinking series.
Editor of "design philosophy papers" online journal.
Journal of design politics blog.
What is the relationship between design sustainability and practice. Research into sustainability issues, Looked at through an Australian context. Lectures Ravensbourne Queensland.
1. Seeing the unsustainable.
Re directive practice, redirect itself. Direct efforts towards sustainability.
EU programmes towards sustainable development. Convenient political labels. Symptomatic conditions. Underpinning structure, how do we think what we do and influence our lives. The all encompassing is hard to see. The artificial is something we become dependent on. How can we redesign to be sustained.
Unsustainable
- amplified by technology
- Normality of industrial development
Design fits in:
What is not designer? in an unsustainable situation?
In an expanded sense; most design is anonymous. Designing of the designed. Design = prefiguring and directionality.
Material form lies in what it does. The essence of a hammer is in its hammering.
Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden or life in the woods "classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written" (www.albris.com).
Chris Jordan creates work commenting on multiplicity.
It shows the sheer value. Is design disposable?Remove responsibility
Materiality of your environment is inducing you to act in certain ways, a whole system. Throwing a way a plastic cup. exerting pressure on us. You can't seem to make things without destroying it. Re purposing things.
Most designers focus on the end form. Aesthetics is not necessary. But it does seem to need to come together. Designing of the design, internal logic. Appropriated by technology. What a camera does.
We are born into a world of the naturalised artificial. Comfort, cleanliness, interests, fun, where to eat = technologised form.
It is hard to illustrate what a real want is. This structuring equalises a world of unsustainable. This could be a creative challenge.
There are limits to sustainable design. Everywhere green consumers can search for it. No where, having both sustainable and unsustainable.
Architecture is where sustainable has been more successful, light, air circulation and structural issues.
Creating different kinds of design practice.
Why does design need to change its practice?
CAD generative multi solution software.
Bruce Newborn; " Everybody can be a designer now"
Designers won't be needed. This knowledge will be disembodied into the software. Designers need to become thinkers and strategists, or technicians or directors to compete with the software- a lot more intellectual input. The shift from unsustainable to sustainable.
3. Re directive practice
Designers want to approach problems and re design. Recognise the world is dull of this task to re direct it. Practice of design needs to be designed. How can I? Designing you own life is a design exercise- towards sustainment. Functionality and convenience; What are the costs of convenience?
Well developed aesthetic skills, doesn't need to be attractive. Not necessarily a dedication, just helps to put it into context. One attachment and education, what structures dispositions towards practice?
Re directing it; miscoupling it and then putting it back together.
Sustainment is the right word.
Develop ecological sustainment. Development is the end point. Sustainability was used in bad ways, sustainment is proper.
Sustainment- enlightenment, politics and scientific inquiry, freedom of justice.
Design futuring. Tony Fry.
Discussion:
Making strategic decisions, how will it affect peoples behaviour. coordinating efforts of other designers. Changing peoples mode of being. How we are and act. Conserve resources to use less. Appropriate technology movement. Designing for the pyramid.
Mobile telephony
Leap frog adapt and get new forms of technology from a developing world. Continue sustainability. by throwing money at it. Sustaining something that shouldn't be sustained. Maybe whats needed is wellbeing.
People are prepared to change their behaviours. Have a better way of life, scale down house size.
Definining whats enough or too much.
Deep confusement around sustainability and sustainment.
Sustainable consumption
-to stop/hold
-support it
-keep something longer
The way the eco system works. Nature has no waste. Just as we design poverty.
Sustainable; the ability to sustain and economically viable.
Sustainment is ongoing - biophysical processes need to sustain in order to have sustainment.
A change in thinking; Can we understand the need for limits, will we ever?
Darwin; "Only species survive by adapting themselves".
Synergies occur as a performance indicator, creating the unexpected. Enjoying designing something can make it more successful.
Understanding how the eco system works. The more complex the system the more likely it will be impossible.
Refusal of ideas that are in conflict with each other.
Generating a new form of activity in that area. Talking with the communities to work it out. Designers are often not involved in the decision making. Some people are the designers without declaring it. You speak to different occupancies to understand the way people think and their agendas. To create a sense of their activities.
How to counteract the negative design effects. Michael Bowell, a chemist who redevelops industries and creates products that do not harm. Designers are like confidants. Teach designers to think. We can miss the whole picture. The thinking should be transferred from one person to another, Misunderstand the rule of language, designers can invent new categories.
Redesign ourselves as team work.
Jon Chris Jones, a pioneer in designing design, created a background of ideas.
Hilary Cotore, service design industry. redesigning the health.
The way in which to start to instrument change. Who responds to the change. Can people accommodate a total change? Redesigning design using design wherever you can to try and make a difference. Chip away to try and change.
If there was a generous approach. What kind of lifestyle are you sustaining?
If you sustain you should sustain everything.
Spreading a culture of wellbeing and communication.
Interior designers can completely redesign to design a better way of living.
Sell the idea of less, like Muji.
Big opportunity for designers to recreate money.
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