Capstone

Introduction

Resource-efficient Society aim to maximising the supply of money, materials and other staff and minimum wasted effort or expense that can be in order to function effectively.

Natural resources support the functioning of global economy and our quality of life. These resources include raw materials such as fuels, minerals and metals. The pressures on resources are increasing.

If current trends continue, by 2050, the global population is expected to have grown by 30% to around 9 billion and people in developing and emerging economies will legitimately aspire to the welfare and consumption levels of developed countries. (A resource-efficient Europe 2013)­­

The intensive use of the world's resources puts our plant on dangerous situation. Continuing our current situation of resources use is not an option.

To dealing with situation, increasing resource efficiency will be key to securing our life. It will bring major economic opportunities, improve productivity, and decrease costs. It is necessary to develop new products and services and find new ways to reduce inputs, minimise waste, improve management of resource, change consumption patterns, optimise production processes.

In general speaking, building up a Resource-efficient society will be huge benefit for all human beings. For people who do value resource-efficient will gain more positive emotion through experience of using new product or services. Because of maximizing of using product value, people will get more efficient daily life without big wastage like previous life pattern.

­When Resource-efficient society working into right track, Society will develop sustainable.

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A resource-efficient Europe – Flagship initiative of the Europe 2020 Strategy 05/2013 (http://ec.europa.eu/resource-efficient-europe/)

Approach (My interest and abilities)

As an international student, I am not having a stable home in Australia. Because we renting place and when we come back hometown, we will terminate the contact with agent. When we come will renting a place to stay.

For this reason, we move a lot. As resource-efficient products, it will really help us to improve the efficient of our life.

Compared with other countries, China has a small amount of per-capita resources. That consumes a large amount of natural resources and produce a large amount of waste, has caused serious environmental pollution problems.

When my holiday I will back to china and have some travel, I can really see how resource shortage of some area. So I become quite value of resource like water, paper, electronic etc.

Approach or method

­­“Extreme User Interviews” from IDEO methods card really helped. Live in china my parents are very familiar of this situation in china.

“Narration” is a good way to reach user’s motivations, concerns, perception and reasoning.

Also online research is important of primary stage of design.

Library contain some literature review is quite helped me.