Reintroducing Materials To Design For Sustainability

Author : Mette Bak-Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000372766
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design written by Mette Bak-Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design provides instrumental theory and practical guidance to bring materials back into a central role in the design process and education. To create designs that are sustainable and respond to current environmental, economic and cultural concerns, practitioners and educators require a clear framework for materials use in design and product manufacturing. While much has been written about sustainable design over the last two decades, outlining systems of sustainability and product criteria, to design for material circularity requires a detailed understanding of the physical matter that constitutes products. Designers must not just know of materials but know how to manipulate them and work with them creatively. This book responds to the gap by offering a way to acquire the material knowledge necessary to design physical objects for sustainability. It reinforces the key role and responsibility of designers and encourages designers to take back control over the ideation and manufacturing process. Finally, it discusses the educational practice involved and the potential implications for design education following implementation, addressing didactics, facilities and expertise. This guide is a must-read for designers, educators and researchers engaged in sustainable product design and materials.

Author : Mette Bak-Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781003109525
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reintroducing Materials to Design for Sustainability written by Mette Bak-Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design provides instrumental theory and practical guidance to bring materials back into a central role in the design process and education. To create designs that are sustainable and respond to current environmental, economic, and cultural concerns, practitioners and educators require a clear framework for materials use in design and product manufacturing. While much has been written about sustainable design over the last two decades, outlining systems of sustainability and product criteria, to design for material circularity requires a detailed understanding of the physical matter that constitutes products. Designers must not just know of materials but know how to manipulate them and work with them creatively. This book responds to the gap by offering a way to acquire the material knowledge necessary to design physical objects for sustainability. It reinforces the key role and responsibility of designers and encourages designers to take back control over the ideation and manufacturing process. Finally, it addresses the educational practice involved and the potential implications for design education following implementation, looking at didactics, facilities and expertise. This guide is a must-read for designers, educators and researchers engaged in sustainable product design and materials"--

Author : Fabrizio Ceschin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429851952
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Sustainability (Open Access) written by Fabrizio Ceschin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It puts forward an innovation framework that is capable of coherently integrating multiple design for sustainability (DfS) approaches developed so far. It is now widely understood that design can and must play a crucial role in the societal transformations towards sustainability. Design can in fact act as a catalyst to trigger and support innovation, and can help to shape the world at different levels: from materials to products, product–service systems, social organisations and socio-technical systems. This book offers a unique perspective on how DfS has evolved in the past decades across these innovation levels, and provides insights on its promising and necessary future development directions. For design scholars, this book will trigger and feed the academic debate on the evolution of DfS and its next research frontiers. For design educators, the book can be used as a supporting tool to design courses and programmes on DfS. For bachelor’s and master’s level design, engineering and management students, the book can be a general resource to provide an understanding of the historical evolution of DfS. For design practitioners and businesses, the book offers a rich set of practical examples, design methods and tools to apply the various DfS approaches in practice, and an innovation framework which can be used as a tool to support change in organisations that aim to integrate DfS in their strategy and processes.

Author : Carlo Arnaldo Vezzoli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848001630
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Environmental Sustainability written by Carlo Arnaldo Vezzoli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products. The book provides a comprehensive framework and a practical tool to support the design process. This is an important text for those interested in the product development processes.

Author : Sharon B. Jaffe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119443733
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Design Basics written by Sharon B. Jaffe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, climate-diverse guide that transforms readers from sustainable design novices to whole-solution problem solvers. Sustainable Design Basics is a student-friendly introduction to a holistic and integral view of sustainable design. Comprehensive in scope, this textbook presents basic technical information, sustainability strategies, and a practical, step-by-step approach for sustainable building projects. Clear and relatable chapters illustrate how to identify the factors that reduce energy use, solve specific sustainable design problems, develop holistic design solutions, and address the social and cultural aspects of sustainable design. Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, the text’s easy-to-follow methodology leads readers through the fundamental sustainable design principles for the built environment. Sustainably-constructed and maintained buildings protect the health and improve the productivity of their occupants, as well as help to restore the global ecosystem. The authors, leading practitioners and educators in sustainable design, have created a resource that provides a solid introduction to broad level sustainability thinking that students can take forward into their professional practice. Topics include space planning for sustainable design, integrative and collaborative design, standards and rating systems, real-world strategies to conserve energy and resources through leveraging renewable natural resources and innovative construction techniques and their impact on our environment. Usable and useful both in and beyond the classroom, this book: Covers building location strategies, building envelopes and structures, integration of passive and active systems, green materials, and project presentation Examines cultural factors, social equity, ecological systems, and aesthetics Provides diverse student exercises that vary by climate, geography, setting, perspective, and typology Features a companion website containing extensive instructor resources Sustainable Design Basics is an important resource aimed at undergraduate architecture and interior design students, or first-year graduate students, as well as design professionals wishing to integrate sustainable design knowledge and techniques into their practice.

Author : Carlo Vezzoli
Publisher : Elsevier Inc. Chapters
ISBN 13 : 0128055871
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Materials Experience written by Carlo Vezzoli and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The designer plays an important part in choosing and using materials, and in the perspective of environmental sustainability design choices should be aimed at materials causing the lowest environmental impact. This assumption, that seems almost a triviality, needs to be seen in a systemic approach: it is mandatory to refer to the life cycle of the product and to its functional unit, in other terms choosing and using materials within a product Life Cycle Design approach. Furthermore such an approach could fit well in Product-Service System business models, capable of decoupling the economic and competitive interest for an increase in resources consumption and more in general an increase in environmental impact. Within this framework an introduction to the product Life Cycle Design is given at first, followed by the description of a material selection in such an approach, finally the conclusions, will frame material selection in system approach to design for sustainability..

Author : Rebecca Proctor
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780677243
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sustainable Design Book written by Rebecca Proctor and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainable Design Book updates the reader on the latest products and developments in the field of green design, and features 265 of the most exciting new products around. Q&As with leading designers give insight into trends and key techniques used within the industry, while handy icons highlight each product's sustainability credentials at a glance. Beginning with a chapter on sustainable materials, the book goes on to cover furniture, lighting, home accessories, and personal accessories. Web addresses of designers and retailers make each product easy to source. The Sustainable Design Book is an unbeatable resource for those aspiring to best practice within the field of sustainable design, as well as students of contemporary product design. Consumers looking for beautiful but environmentally conscious products and accessories will also find this an essential guide.

Author : S. M. Sapuan
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128194421
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Sustainability written by S. M. Sapuan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design for Sustainability: Green Materials and Processes provides fundamental and practical knowledge surrounding product development applications throughout the entire lifecycle of green materials, ranging from conceptual design, material and manufacturing process selection, and environmental lifecycle assessment. In addition, several topics covering recent advances in the application of sustainable design within the automotive, building and construction, packaging and consumer product industries are also included in this book to provide practical examples of this philosophy in current applications. Lastly, a section on implementation of design for sustainability in education is added to aid readers that wish to introduce this philosophy to younger students. This book will be beneficial to researchers, students in higher education institutions, design practitioners and engineers in private and public sector organization with aspirations to develop sustainable products in the future. Design for sustainability is one of the primary focuses in human advancement nowadays, with the aim of developing products and services that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Provides an overview on materials and process design for sustainability Discusses theoretical aspects about design for sustainability Includes a discussion of the most recent advances and applications in design for sustainability

Author : Amanda Davis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118957652
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchen & Bath Sustainable Design written by Amanda Davis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading industry association's handbook for going green inthe kitchen and bath Kitchen & Bath Sustainable Design is the NationalKitchen and Bath Association's complete guide to "greening" theseimportant rooms. The first book to focus exclusively on kitchen andbath sustainability, this full color guide covers everyconsideration for both remodels and new construction, making it ahandy reference for any kitchen and bath professional. Case studiesof award-winning projects demonstrate how space, budget, andsustainability can come together to create beautiful, functional,efficient rooms, and illustrations throughout provide visualexamples of the techniques discussed. The book includes informationon greening one's practice for the client's benefit, plus anappendix of additional resources and instructional materials forclassroom use. Outside of general heating and cooling, kitchen appliances usethe bulk of a household's energy. Kitchens and baths together usean average of 300 gallons of water per day for a family of four,and both rooms are high-use areas that require good air quality.Kitchen & Bath Sustainable Design provides a handbook todesigning these rooms for sustainability, without sacrificingcomfort or livability. With comprehensive guidance on approachingthese rooms sustainably, readers will: Communicate better with builders, clients, and potentialclients Understand technical considerations, and the criteria that makea design "green" Conduct a full design analysis, including life cycle costingand efficiency Learn the ratings systems and standards in play in the greenkitchen and bath The biggest elements of sustainable interior design—energyefficiency, water use, and materials selection—are all majorplayers in the kitchen and bath. Clients are increasingly demandingattention to sustainability issues, and designers must be up todate on the latest guidelines, best practices, and technology.Kitchen & Bath Sustainable Design is the completetechnical and practical guide to green design for the kitchen andbath professional.

Author : Carlo Arnaldo Vezzoli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781848820654
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Environmental Sustainability written by Carlo Arnaldo Vezzoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products. The book provides a comprehensive framework and a practical tool to support the design process. This is an important text for those interested in the product development processes.