WEEK 11: ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY
Lecture: the lecture considered the idea of 0 waste and sustainable design. The biggest points I took away were to look at the big picture, and think about what is actually the best option as far as sustainably living and designing. One example that really stuck with me was the options there are for newspaper once it has been used – my thoughts were that recycling the paper was the best way to go for sustainability, but was unaware that this process leaves us with what is essentially a bucket of toxic ink that has no purpose. Using the newspaper in the garden in some form is a much better option, returning it to the soil as carbon. This started me thinking about what is actually the best way to do things as a designer, and how I can genuinely reflect the idea of being sustainable and having a low impact with the work I do. A term from the lecture that I looked into further was “industrial symbiosis”. The concept is pretty straightforward: when creating a product, the surplus/exces...
