Lecture April 29th-

Ecology of the Artificial

Quote from (Victor Papanek, 1985)

'... there are few professions more harmful than industrial, but only a very few.'

Victor Papanek felt it was the designers moral responsibility to decide which projects to do, and which projects to dismiss due to their effect on society.
-How society can effect nature...- Fran Lanting - Life- creating the earth

Ecologically sustainable design
- The ecosphere- A limited enviroment
- The atmosphere - Air
- The Biosphere- Living things
- The Lithosphere- Rocks
- The Hydrosphere- Water

+Easter Island...
Was a small isolated island. Big stone sculptures were found on it. called Moai. These stones are big, 25m high, 35 cars ish heavy. The island had big palm trees, the people used these trees for everything, to live off. No other way of building these big statues. They used all of these palm trees up, then had no more iron, so became canabalistic, they lost 90% of their population. Eventually all died out because these trees weere exstinct.
This is an example of a small civilisation with a small amount of technology that was able to destroy themselves. We as a big civilisation have huge advances in technology like nuclear power and rocketships. But earth is a limited environment and we need to look after it.
The material we use used to be mostly from the biosphere, like wood. But not its mostly coming from lithosphere, like oil. Since the 1900s.

Invisable materials that we don’t realise get used up.
-Production waste
-Stockpile
-Contents (whats inside an object)
-Escape, wear and tear, products are always losing material, like gases. New car smell is really just gases escaping.

Product life style.
-Design concept
-Materials and manufacture
-Packaging and transport
-Consumer purchases
-Consumer use
-End of life. Down cycling. Recycling. Upcycling

....to be continued