Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
RagBag
Fashion items upcycled from disposable HDPE shopping bags, picked up from the trash heaps of India.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Plastics Identification
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Rexite.com
Rexite Attila and Rexite Cricket, compactors for aluminium cans and PET bottles, designed by Julian Brown.
Video: Chindogu un-useless Japanese inventions
Volumes 1 and 2 of this book by Kenji Kawakami are available at the UNSW Library under P608.752/1.
Report: Useless Christmas gifts
More here
http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=337627
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1525907.htm
Enoughness.co.uk
Some of the recipients of the Landfill Prize include the Bra Dryer, the Motorized Ice Cream Cone, and the Philips Sonicare with UV sanitizer.
Video: Who killed the electric car?
Who killed the electric car?
©2006, 90 min
DVD available at UNSW Library PDVD 629.2293/29
Trailer at www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/electric.html
Trailer at http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJAlrYjGz8
Full video here: http://www.viddler.com/explore/etika/videos/7/
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Video: Greenfly > design greener products
Higher quality videos available at http://greenflyonline.org/video.php
Downloadable material data sheets and design guidelines available at http://greenflyonline.org/video.php
Video: Too many people
Click image for link to 2009 video from Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff, titled "Too many people", which shows that we are quickly reaching the limits of our reasources. Due to overpopulation the Earth has reached it's natural resource capacity.
Video: The Story of Bottled Water
More at http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/
NOTE: For Task Six, you may choose to reflect on Annie Leonards' latest short animated videos:
1. The Story of Cap and Trade.
2. The Story of Bottled Water.
3. The Story of Electronics. (coming soon on May 2010)
Reflections on this video due May 17.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Interecell Vaccine Patch Transcutaneous Immunization
Needle-free alternative to injected immunizations. Easy, sterile administration, applicability with both the developed and developing world. No needles left lying around. Designed by IDEO.
Video: Adaptive Eyecare
Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global plan to distribute them to a billion people in need by 2020.
Video: Carbon footprint
The Discovery Channel video "Global Warming : what you need to know : carbon footprint" demonstrates how much carbon dioxide the average American family produces and presents a graphical timeline of global warming throughout history. Hosted by Tom Brokaw, interviewing NASA's top climate scientist Dr James Hansen and Princeton University professors Michael Oppenheimer and Stephen Pacala.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
How many planets did my students need?
Well, the EcoFootprint results are out. It was great to see my students reflecting on the results of their own HONEST calculations of their lifestyle resource demands and resolving to reduce their own footprints. Great work guys and gals! I hope that by the end of the semester you could recalculate again and check if you needed less planets!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Undercover Table
The Undercover Table prototype, by Thom Faulders and Anna Rainer of Beige Design, turns into an emergency station in the event of a disaster. Three bands hold a tent and other supplies in storage containers beneath the tabletop, which pulls off to transform into a stretcher with handholds.
Factiva
I encourage you all to use this database of 8000 newspapers from around the world, which is free if you access via the UNSW Library. This would be very useful fo your Design for Disasters projects.
To access Factiva, you can either use the UNSW LRD (Library Resources Database) or Sirius. Look up "Factiva" and you'll find the link to the online resource.
You can set the dates to search for, as well as the particular region and country of the newspaper.
You can also filter results to include only English-language reports and articles.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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