Sustainable design and development should meet the needs of people in the present without compromising the needs of future generations. According to serial entrepreneur John Elkington, organizations need to consider profit, people and the planet when thinking about new innovations.
Join Prasad Boradkar, a professor emeritus of industrial design at Arizona State University, as he explains sustainable design and how designers should consider using renewable resources to meet these goals.
In this video, you’ll learn about the entire lifecycle of products, from the initial materials to when it’s thrown back to the Earth. You’ll learn how designers strive to reduce resources, reuse products and recycle. They must consider the raw materials, manufacturing process, transportation of an object and the product life cycle, from conception to end of life. Sustainable design actions include using non-polluting materials, reducing energy consumption, reducing waste generated, minimizing transportation and designing for recyclability.
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Understanding Design is an educational series of online design courses about the fundamentals of design. The series delves into how great designers think and how the design process works with case studies of many iconic items. We interview professional designers from a range of disciplines about how they incorporate beauty, utility and sustainability into the design work they do.
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