Global Sustainability

Sustainability is the concept that is discussed by everyone around the world that includes non-designers as well. Due to globalization and advanced technological advancements, people are well informed about things that are going on at the same time. Although the concept of sustainability is for every person who is a part of this globe, as designers we have the social responsibility to be conscious of our design decisions and come up with solutions that will facilitate in working toward the deteriorated conditions in the globe and also serve good for the future generations to come. This paper explores about the necessity to be explorative in design to

The author in “Three Principles” talks about how the design profession imparts the humungous amount of knowledge and history of the classic designs in a abridged amount of time and yet we denounce about the knowledge the students lack. One other reason being that the designer is comparatively inefficient to take up the challenge of sustainability because we still seem to be in a nutshell and as designers we have to open up to be more innovative and efficient to incorporate sustainability. The author mentions about the necessity for designers to explore the possibilities because in the advanced world, we cannot solve any problem with the age-old solution.

The author also talks about an interesting aspect of Fuller’s concept of “ephemeralization”. The concept of the greater a product’s sophistication, the smaller it gets. He supports his statement with an example of how technology has advanced from that of a computer of a huge size to a sleek tablet. The concept also justifies the advantage of having fewer materials, which in turn reduces the environmental footprints.

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...ric sustainability and improve the conditions of the community as a whole. This includes the diverse range of urban planners to the product designers.

There are a lot of issues that is eating up the earth on a daily basis and the damage that we have caused to the nature is growing beyond any limitations. The huge question arises – is it only a designer who is solely responsible to work on solutions for a green world? Shouldn’t this be an overall combined effort by the designers and non-designers? As a globe we do contemplate the various solutions for the problems we are facing but are we actually taking the initiatives to be efficiently productive? It is certain that the solution to effective sustainable solutions lie in the hands of every citizen of this globe and to jus consider sustainability as a “design solution” but consider it to be the way of life.