Design · Product & Industrial Design
A topic within Product & Industrial Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.
No prior grounding assumed.
The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability
William McDonough & Michael Braungart · 1992
Sets out design principles built on the premise that waste is a design failure and not an inevitability, arguing that products and buildings should…
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Design for Sustainability: A Practical Approach for Developing Economies
UNEP · 2009
Argues that redesigning a product's function and use pattern, not just swapping materials, gives the largest lifecycle environmental gains, and sets…
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William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Sets out design principles built on the premise that waste is a design failure and not an inevitability, arguing that products and buildings should be designed from the outset to be either fully biodegradable or fully recoverable.
UNEP
Argues that redesigning a product's function and use pattern, not just swapping materials, gives the largest lifecycle environmental gains, and sets out an eight-step method for applying that redesign in a resource-constrained business.
Michael C. Kowalski & JungKyoon Yoon
Argues that emotional attachment to a product predicts whether it is actually kept in use, and that designing for sustainability therefore has to design for attachment, not just for durable materials and repairability.