The Designer's Role in Facilitating Sustainable Solutions

Wahl, Daniel C.; Baxter, Seaton

doi:10.1162/desi.2008.24.2.72

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“…The curricula need to be designed with this concept of Frugal innovation so that the future designers are able to create and innovate new products. Wahl and Baxter (2008) mentions that Sustainability requires widespread participation of communities worldwide at local, regional and across international borders to achieve the vision into reality. Therefore, in order to achieve universal acceptable design which is sustainable, we need to develop a system in which everyone participates and is a member in its creation and is ready to adapt the socio-cultural processes of change.…”

Section: The New Education Curriculummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such a process of Trans disciplinary and integrative design process will have holistic solution that promotes sustainability across different culture and economies of the world meeting the needs, values, attitudes and desires. Wahl and Baxter (2008) states that Design is the core element of all human needs and designers should have the potential to act as trans disciplinary correlational and coordinating agent. Designers can act as facilitators in integration of the various trans disciplinary attributes.…”

Section: The New Education Curriculummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Design institutions and faculties should design curriculum which should have Cross breeding of design, science, business and technology to innovate products for our society which is driven by social media, technology and environmental concerns. Wahl and Baxter (2008) states that Design is the core element of all human needs and designers should have the potential to act as trans disciplinary correlational and co-ordinating agent. Designers can act as facilitators in integration of the various trans disciplinary attributes.…”

Section: 'Decade Of Education For Sustainable Development' (Desd) By mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Fashion Education in Changing World Scenario

Agarwal¹

2018

EJSD

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With the changing world scenario, information technology is hitting all walks of life , the globalised phenomenon along with alarming environmental concerns have led the world to innovate ways and methods to address various concerns in a sustainable way. Fashion education also needs to undergo change in its pedagogy and develop newer knowledge source and materials which are eco-friendly ,leaving less carbon footprints on the earth .The fashion Education curriculum needs to have more "Free Thinking" orientation and interaction and information of technological advances of materials and processes which consume less energy and less waste post production. Looking at current trends, the future would require Fashion Designers to have multidisciplinary knowledge of Design, Technology and managerial skills to evolve and compete in the Fashion Industry. Questionnaire would be made to collect the perception from Fashion experts, professionals, Academia and students to assess the kind of knowledge they would like to be incorporated in the Fashion curriculum which has sustainable concepts incorporated in keeping tandem with the future trends.

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Section: The New Education Curriculummentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The New Education Curriculummentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: 'Decade Of Education For Sustainable Development' (Desd) By mentioning

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Sustainable Fashion Education in Changing World Scenario

Agarwal¹

2018

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“…Several progressive authors identified the discipline of industrial design as having a high potential to lessen the environmental load of our products [1,25,[31][32][33][34][35][36]. In addition, the current statement of the ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) highlights "enhancing global sustainability and environmental protection" as one of the major aims of industrial design [37].…”

Section: Id Consultancies: Potential Agents For Ecodesignmentioning

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“…When joining a product development process, designers usually proceed as soon as they can to visualizing or even prototyping different possible solutions [35,[38][39][40] in which they interpret and synthesize the different product requirements. This activity allows testing different possible pathways early in the product development process and reduces risk and uncertainty about them.…”

Section: Id Consultancies: Potential Agents For Ecodesignmentioning

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Representation of Ecodesign Practice: International Comparison of Industrial Design Consultancies

Behrisch¹,

Ramirez

Giurco³

2011

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Ecodesign offers significant potential to reduce the environmental impacts of products. Whilst some integration of environmental considerations into design occurs in progressive companies when engineering the product, this only represents a small share of the possible design interventions to improve the environmental performance of products. For example, developing new product concepts to fulfill needs in a less environmentally harmful way and considering user related aspects offers a large, currently under-realized potential. This paper identifies industrial design (ID) consultancies as potential agents to tackle this issue on a strategic and operational basis. The extent to which this potential is currently applied was assessed by conducting a content analysis of websites of ID consultancies in Australia, China, and Germany. How ID consultancies represent their ecodesign practice is country-specific. Despite the differences, some ID consultancies in all countries announce and/or show the capability to develop completely new concepts and to influence user related factors to improve environmental performance. This shows their potential to address current shortcomings in ecodesign practice. As ID consultancies embracing that potential still are a minority, further research should be directed to a deeper examination of barriers and stimuli for ID consultancies to take up ecodesign.

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The Designer's Role in Facilitating Sustainable Solutions

Cited by 86 publications

References 3 publications

Sustainable Fashion Education in Changing World Scenario

Sustainable Fashion Education in Changing World Scenario

Representation of Ecodesign Practice: International Comparison of Industrial Design Consultancies

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