luna

I enjoyed this article. It brings up a few very interesting points.
Everyone wants to be a designer! And why not, why shouldn’t we be able to put our mark on everything and customize everything to serve as a reflection of how we see ourselves or how we want to be seen. It makes the job of the serious that much more challenging. I love the analogy of playing together in the design sandbox. There’s a lesson in working together. We can work wisely and consciously with concern for the impact and outcome.
Designing Substainability is the key here! I agree that this is going to have to be one of our main concerns as we design for the future. The future where “Design by ego ends, and Design by Conservation Begins”.
Why do we have to constantly replace everything with the bigger, better, newer, cooler version? The basic design could be made to be expanded upon.
We should stop being so wasteful and thinking of everything as disposable. I think that it’s going to come up more and more. At the seminar, someone asked about the materials used for the construction of temporary booths. Were the materials recycled and/or recyclable?
And of course, we all know about the importance of reuse from our bags in Sylvia’s class!