IDES3221-2011: 2011

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Life in the year 2050

Not a drop to drink

Energy efficiency, fuel consumption

Growing better rice for a hungry world

Simple innovations help African farmers thrive

The opportunity gap

What's an LED?

Monday, April 4, 2011

Video: Sustainable Fridge

Thursday, March 24, 2011

BJ Fogg: Behavior Change Model

Dr BJ Fogg, founder of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, provides a convenient model for understanding how we can use design to influence behavioral change.

More at
www.behavioralmodel.org
www.bjfogg.com
http://captology.stanford.edu

Video: Collaborative Consumption

More at http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/

WHAT'S MINE IS YOURS from rachel botsman on Vimeo.

Collaborative Consumption Groundswell Video from rachel botsman on Vimeo.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

PPT: Nathan Shedroff > Design is the problem

PPT: Nathan Shedroff > Becoming a Sustainable Designer in 47 Easy Steps

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Plastics identification charts

Some sites for identifying plastics and elastomers

http://www.texloc.com/closet/cl_plasticsid.html

http://www.consultekusa.com/pdf/Tech%20Resources/New%20ID%20chart%20.pdf
http://www.partec.qld.edu.au/files/Plastics_Identification_Flow_Chart.pdf

GreenflyOnline.org

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Ezine: MADE Materials And Design Exchange

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Ebook: Designers Field Guide to Sustainability

http://www.lunar.com/docs/the_designers_field_guide_to_sustainability_v1.pdf

http://www.lunar.com/fieldguide/tips.html

IDES3221-2010 student blogs

Ebook: Guided tour in Ecodesign

This e-book, Guided Tour in Ecodesign, www.ivt.ntnu.no/ipd/fag/ecodesign, was based on the book, "Ecodesign: a Promising Approach to Sustainable Production & Consumption", ©1997 Technical University of Delft & United Nations Environment Programme. A copy of the printed book is available at UNSW Library: PQ 745.2/127.

The book mentions 8 ecodesign strategies, and under those a total of 33 substrategies. Explanations can be found in Module A and Chapter 5.1 of the book.

1. Dematerialization
2. Shared use of the product
3. Integration of functions
4. Functional optimization of product (components)
5. Cleaner materials
6. Renewable materials
7. Lower energy content materials
8. Recycled materials
9. Recyclable materials
10. Reduction of weight
11. Reduction in (transport) volume
12. Alternative production techniques
13. Fewer production steps
14. Lower/cleaner energy consumption
15. Less production waste
16. Fewer/cleaner production consumables
17. Less/cleaner/reusable packaging
18. Energy-efficient transport mode
19. Energy-efficient logistics
20. Lower energy consumption
21. Cleaner energy sources
22. Fewer consumables needed
23. Cleaner consumables
24. Reduce wastage of energy and other consumables
25. Reliability and durability
26. Easier maintenance and repair
27. Modular product structure
28. Classic design
29. Stronger product-user relation
30. Reuse of product
31. Remanufacturing/refurbishing
32. Recycling of materials
33. Safer incineration

These strategies were also reiterated in Chapter 8 of the e-book D4S Design for Sustainability: A practical approach for developing economies, freely downloadable at www.d4s-de.org.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products | Video on TED.com

Friday, February 25, 2011

Design4Disaster.org

A website which allows designers to show their proposals for designs for aiding in disaster prevention, response, reconstruction.

http://www.design4disaster.org/

Rematerialise

http://research.kingston.ac.uk/rematerialise/

Rematerialise is a database of sustainable materials, a project of Jakki Dehn at Kingston University.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Video: Autodesk Sustainability Workshop

More at http://students.autodesk.com/?nd=sustainable_home

Friday, February 18, 2011

Video: Objectified

This 75-minute feature length-documentary examining the role of everyday objects in our daily lives, directed by Gary Hustwit, 2009. Link to video here.

Can be viewed at COFA
CFAAV 791.43023/HUS/1

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Video: The genius of design

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/UX2xpmrtqis/

or watch it on ABC1 http://abc.com.au/tv/guide/abc1/201010/programs/ZX1054A003D2010-10-05T180000.htm?program=The%20Genius%20Of%20Design

Video: Design for Life

BBC is running a new reality TV program called "Design for Life", in which Philippe Starck puts weekly challenges to 12 British design students competing for the chance to work with him in his design agency in Paris.

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5

Episode 6

Video: The Corporation

More info on the official website.
All the chapters can be watched here.

DVD can also be watched from UNSW Library:
CFAAV338.74/1
SVIDQ338.74/80/(1-3)