LECTURE 9 29th April

ECOLOGY OF THE ARTIFICIAL
Read reading for next Friday, the 9^thThink about PRO 3 design composition, chose a key word / concept
Mine could be waste, designer’s responsibility, green, extra, surplus, what we need, what we want. Excess

Green design, sustainable design

(Victoraparel 1985)
Industrial design is most harmful possession

Pollute air we breathe, designers have become a dangerous breed, moral responsibility from the designer.
Frans langtang, lite.

Birth of universe, energy became matter, matter came plasma, 4 billion years, volcanoes rains and oceans form. Earth cools. Water freezes. Life is fossilized. Harden it becomes defensive. Slugs = snails
New life mammals evolve. Primates, Lima's, apes. We go upright.
Blood veins Eco mash. Brain reflects tidal marsh. Life covers earth lie a skin
“The gods must be crazy” adapting to the environment
600 miles from bushman is a city full of civilized me.

ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE.
(diagram)

Human activity affects that balance. Easter Island limited environment maoi statues.
Lots of population massive technology. Globalization: societies are connected immigration trade spread of diseases. We face possibility of collapse. Ecological footprint

CONSUMPTION: comes from china, burnt to coal. Power to run factory. People work. 20, 000 people, making shoes high density small compact.

USA materials for lithosphere not biosphere (natural)

Take out, use it, put it back, into air, global warming
Invisible materials: what is in our hands is not all of it.
Production waste, stockpile, stuff that stops, contents what is it? Escape worn down
New car smell $2shop gas

Product: (diagram)

DOWN CYLCING (RE CYCLING)
Green designer recycled materials. Lose quality, Bangladesh
Tires hard to recycle

UP CYLCING
Add value to things 1 + 1 = 3

RESILIENCE
Natural and artificial layers and cycles form ecologically resilience. Small and short span mayfly 1 hour large and slow.

FILM
The transition form green to an ecological model of the artificial.
More than just materials. Becomes the memory of a product. Stop form throwing it away.
CHANGE. Time based living, mobius house, Ben van Berkle.

ETHICS OF A GREEN DESIGNER
Add in energy saving function, adds onto existing products.
Rebound effect, long life
Replacing parts, crating access to pre-cuts, instead of throwing entire thing away. De materialization, becomes a service, Luke showed an example of a computer that used this idea.
Different designing, connecting to a person
Reducing travel, distance communication
Dealing with energy. Indicators on appliances to regulate energy.
Reducing non renewable services, lighting restricted
Connection between senses and industrial and digital.
Controlling
Shared products, sustainable every day. Don’t be pessimistic.
Hear from the past.