if products could speak jan 26 2009
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Class One of the Course If Products Could Speak at NYU ITPTRANSCRIPT
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IF PRODUCTS COULD SPEAK
TOWARDS A MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
JEN VAN DER MEER
NYU ITP WINTER TERM 2009
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RECALLED 1_15_2009
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RECALLED 1_24_2009
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RECALLED 9_15_2009
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WHAT’S NEXT?
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WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THESE LEMURS?
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OR THIS REEF?
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WHAT WOULD SHE SAY ABOUT ALL OF THIS?
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Without answers to these questions that people are seeking, there are limits to the role consumption can play in our shift to a more sustainable economic model. As product developers, designers, tinkerers, and technologists, we have the means to uncover these answers, and communicate the backstories of the things that we make.
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Part One: Who would they speak to?
•Consumers•Citizen Activists + NGOs•Government Regulators and Legislators•Business leaders
IF PRODUCTS COULD SPEAK
Part Two: What Would They Say?
•Energy •Human Health•Resource Depletion + Biodiversity•Social + Economic
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CLASS CALENDAR
January 26: IntroFebruary 2: Stakeholder- ConsumersFebruary 9: Stakeholder- Citizen ActivistsFebruary 23: Stakeholder- Government March 2: Stakeholder- Business Leaders March 9: IdeationMarch 23: Impacts- Energy EmissionsMarch 30: Impacts- Human HealthApril 6: Impacts- Resources, Biodiversity April 13: Impacts- Social and EconomicApril 20: Final PresentationsApril 27: Final Presentations
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CLASS TEXTS
McDonough, Michael, Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way We Make Things. North Point Press, 2002. Sterling, Bruce, Shaping Things, MIT Press, 2005.
Shapiro, Mark, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007.
White, St. Pierre and Belletire, The Okala Guide. Coursework on Life Cycle Analysis, IDSA, 2007. Available through the IDSA: http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/sections/ecosection/okala.html
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COMMUNITY.DESIGNERSACCORD.ORG
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AS CREATORS, KNOW WHAT’S IN THE STUFF YOU MAKE
AS INTERACTION DESIGNERS, CREATE TOOLS + SYSTEMS SO THAT WE CAN ACCESS PRODUCT TRUTH
PROVOCATION
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Stakeholder managementLife cycle analysisSpime Some examples of what we’re
talking about
CLASS ONE: FRAMEWORKS
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STAKEHOLDER VS. SHAREHOLDERMANAGEMENT
Stakeholder:
Emphasize responsibility over profitability
Organizations are coalitions to serve all parties involved
Belief that strongly motivated employees and high levels of trust with all parties leads to improved societal health
Shareholder:
Emphasize profitability over responsibility
Organizations are the instruments of its owners
Belief that enlightened self interest and market based relationships in pursuit of maximal value will result in maximized societal wealth
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Capitalism and Freedom
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."
MILTON FRIEDMAN HAS FRAMED OUR THINKING FOR THE PAST 30+ YEARS
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STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
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DESIGNDESIGN
MININGMINING
REFINE REFINE
MANUFACTUREMANUFACTURE
RETAILRETAILUSEUSELANDFILLLANDFILL
REUSEREUSERECYCLERECYCLE
LIFE CYCLE OF A PRODUCT
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SCOPE OF LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
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LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS IS A FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING IMPACTS
Graph adapted with permission from Robert Kozak and Christopher Gaston, "Life-Cycle Analysis," presented at the Workshop on Climate and Forestry, Orcas Island, WA, November 13-16, 2001.
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PRIUS OR HUMMER
SOURCE: ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE
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BIODIESEL ETHANOL METHANE OR FOSSIL FUEL
SOURCE:THE OIL DRUM
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SOURCE: MARKS AND SPENCER LC
COTTON BRIEFS
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LCA GETS US TO FOCUS ON WHERE WE CAN MAKE BIGGEST IMPACT, AND NOT GET DISTRACTED WITH GREEN SELF-DELUSION
“LCA SHOULD BE THE TAX FOR DESIGNING”-ALLAN CHOCHINOV
BUT, LCA ONLY ASSESSES POTENTIAL IMPACTS AND NOT REAL IMPACTS
AND THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE: LCA DATA IS HARD TO GET
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Shaping Things
“Spime: manufactured objects whose informational support is so overwhelmingly extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Spimes begin and end as data. They are designed on screens, fabricated by digital means, and precisely tracked through space and time throughout their earthly sojourn.”
-Bruce Sterling
SPIME
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THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Shaping Things
How the Internet of things is emerging:
•Interactive chips - RFIDs Geolocation systems• Powerful search engines • Cradle-to-cradle recycling•Sustainability (sorting and reshuffling the garbage)
•3D virtual models of objects -- virtual CAD/CAM Rapid prototyping of objects
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FROM:
CONSUMPTION SEPARATE FROM PRODUCTION
NO KNOWLEDGE OF PRODUCT BACKSTORY
DESIGN PROVIDES FUNCTION, FORM, AT BEST A GREAT EXPERIENCE
ULTIMATE DESIGN OBJECT: IPHONE
TO:
RECONNECT CONSUMERS TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF PRODUCT BACKSTORY
DESIGN TO CREATE TOOLS FOR CULTURAL CHANGE
ULTIMATE DESIGN OBJECT: SPIME
SHIFTING ROLE FOR CREATORS
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THE CREATOR’S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
DESIGN FREEDOM DESIGN FREEDOM AND POSSIBILITY AND POSSIBILITY TO INFLUENCETO INFLUENCE
CUMULATIVE LOCK IN CUMULATIVE LOCK IN OF ENVIRONMENTAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT INTO DESIGNIMPACT INTO DESIGN
COSTS OF COSTS OF CHANGING CHANGING
DESIGNDESIGN
TIMETIME
HIGHHIGH
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THE OBJECT WHICH LABOR PRODUCES, ITS PRODUCT, CONFRONTS IT AS SOMETHING ALIEN, AS A POWER WHICH EXISTS INDEPENDENTLY OF THE PRODUCER.
-K. MARX, 1844
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GREENMETER
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PEIR AT UCLA AND NOKIAPERSONAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
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ECO RIO ANDROID PHONE
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“REVOLUTIONIZE HUMAN INTERACTION WITH THE EARTH AS PROFOUNDLY AS THE INTERNET HAS REVOLUTIONIZED PERSONAL AND BUSINESS INTERACTIONS.” STAN WILLIAMS
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NEXT WEEK:
Readings: The Okala Guide, Modules 9, 10, 11, pp. 28-37.
Shaping Things, Chapters 1-6, pp. 1-54.
Assignment due next class: Choose one product and evaluate a published, peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessment or Analysis, for discussion in the next class.
•What were the system boundaries chosen by the authors of the study?
• What life cycle stage had the greatest impact?
JENVANDERMEER AT GMAIL DOT COM