2013年8月16日星期五

Video Reflection


Greenfly: Design greener products
Greenfly is a great website to allows us to predict and test our design concept whether is sustainable, eco friendly, etc. This website become a powerful tool of access of environment consideration and life cycle data. 1) It makes us redesign concept if the result isn’t come out well. 2) As a good designer, we should consider a lot more about protect environment instead of thinking how to make a fancy look.
3) This video told me there are some considerations I have to think, like Transport, Distribution, water use, energy use…

 ——Autodesk: Whole system and lifecycle thinking
The ways to design the product more sustainable is to think the picture more broadly and try looking the problem form other perspective views.
Every product will impact manufacturing, distributing, use and disposal, and through this process the product may produce gas emissions, water pollution, air pollution.
The first step is to more deeply define the problem by looking at the whole system,
And second, to optimize for environmental performance we need to consider impacts through the entire lifecycle of product or service.
Thirdly we should look for solutions by looking again at the whole system.
And the end carefully makes a choice and repeat and repeat.
This video bring us the better way of thinking and to develop a better design solution, the sustainable design is not save some waste by a piece of material is look the whole cycle to reduce the waste of it.

——Autodesk: Improving product life time
Design sustainably means getting the most use out of the materials and energy that go into your product. The keyword is “extending useful life”.
There many ways to maximize the product lifetime, like make it more durable or easier to repair or upgrades, design it easier to recyclable. Try to decrease the disposal part to have a much longer life.
There are three kind of the product to design, short lifetime product, long lifetime product and the product in between. There have different design principles. Recycle and compost for short lifetime product, durable for long lifetime product and repair and upgrade for the product in between. The best design will incorporate all of them.

——Light weighting
Product made with less material is a great helpful of reduce disposal part. A lot of product can be made lightweight to help the environment. Innovation design is really great part to reduce the weight of the product.
“Every pound of material you save in your product saves much more upstream”
But there are different situation for designer using lightweight strategy, materials for waster bigger part, if there is an energy power source, when you understand your product function and form.

——Green materials selection
A good green material is abundant and non-toxic which doesn’t require a lot of energy and other resources, good end of products…
To make a sustainable design, designers should pay a lot of attention on material choose, the origin of the material and manufacture making. As a designer, we should always using the more efficiently and green materials.

——Energy efficient design
As a designer, we need to understand the sources of energy, and know energy converted.
When we using energy, we have to think about where is the energy come from or how they come. For example, during the process of electrical from coal, it is not efficiency at all. When the electricity came to our home, the energy already waste 84% efficient.
To be sustainable, we need choose an energy source that is much lower impact like solar plant.
On the daily life, we can avoid a lot of unnecessary energy waste.
As a designer, we can use energy more effectively by understanding energy systems to make our design fit in.

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