Design: Sustainability

Sincerest Form of Flattery

The creator of biomimicry, Janine Benyus has initiated a new trend for a variety of industrial designers.  Such designers now consider biologists and others, who are knowledgeable of nature’s works to have their pitch at projects.  Benyus understands that nature as a self dependable entity has answers for problems the contemporary world resolves with other means of technology.  For example, nature’s own spiders produce such complex and whimsical structures such as their webs to survive right around us, and could be the basis of a major architectural project.

·      Janine Benyus is the founder of Biomimicry Institute

·      Biomimicry is the practice of imitating nature’s ways of design to create sustainable projects in the society.

·      Biomimicry can help design evolve  with the help of nature’s wonders.

·      The philosophy suggests heat and explosive forces aren’t te only way to create.

·      Natural resources should as important to the contemporary world as the artificial ones.

Speculative Prehistory of Humanity

 Buckminster Fuller truly believe the society has come to appoint of taking energy for granted. He believes people do not use the products to their full potential, and because of that, energy is wasted.  The average household wastes 95/100 units of energy that is consumed. Because energy is not seen by the naked eye, the consumer becomes oblivious to anything relating to it. Fuller strongly believes society should take more interest in science and understand the workings of energy and how it’s being used or wasted.  In the contemporary world, industries should be able manufacture products that are environmentally efficient, it is then that public would become more conscious of their environment.

·      -Efficiency can be found in simpler forms of physics

·      -Scientist should change their focus from creating new weaponry to creating better life for humanity

·      -Technology which nurtures us is the most valuable asset to our live, not money.

·      -An efficient society leads better and happier lives

·      -Contemporary societies don’t understand science.

A Question of Design

William McDonough and Michael Braungart focused on displaying the importance of the Industrial Revolution and the impact it made on the contemporary technologies and design. The initial innovations evolved as people were trying to solve problems that fought nature’s way. That eventually proved to be a significant factor in today’s mistreatment of it. They imply that manufacturers began manufacturing products with the intent, that they would last for a certain period of time and it was to be expected for them to stop functioning, as they should at one point.  This suddenly stared the ’throw away’ culture, which ultimately encourages people to keep buying new products.

·      -Industrial revolution initiated the overlooking of the negative aspects of technology

·      -Working against nature, making own rules

·      -Public is harmed by the design of production during the industrial revolution

·      -The industrial revolution led to the depletion of artisan skills

·      -The initial belief was that nature can provide sustainability forever, however, now the world sees otherwise.