Design and Sustainability - for iPod/iPhone
By The Open University
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Description
Are you aware of the environmental impacts of the stuff you buy? Is that chair you bought made from wood from a sustainable forest, or was it illegally logged ? Or perhaps your TV set's inner parts are too difficult to recycle or cause pollution when it’s dismantled at the end of its life. All this adds up to a huge amount of damage to the planet. This album looks at how designers must respond to the increasingly urgent need for sustainability in product design. Designers now need to come up with not only better, more efficient designs, but must also consider the impacts in all stages in the life cycle of a product to minimise negative social and environmental consequences. This album also reveals how new product ideas and inventions are tested before they’re turned into commercially viable products. You may also want to explore the albums "Energy and Sustainability" and "Sustainable Communities". This material is taken from The Open University Course T307 Innovation: designing for a sustainable future.
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Design and Sustainability | A short introduction to this album. | 25 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Design and Sustainability | Transcript -- A short introduction to this album. | 25 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoConsumer product testing | Representatives of Intertech, a product-testing company, discuss their methods of testing. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Consumer product testing | Transcript -- Representatives of Intertech, a product-testing company, discuss their methods of testing. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoTesting standards | Emphasising the importance of standards in consumer testing. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Testing standards | Transcript -- Emphasising the importance of standards in consumer testing. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoThe five principles of sustainability | The three layers of sustainability and the five principles to reduce the impact of products on the environment. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The five principles of sustainability | Transcript -- The three layers of sustainability and the five principles to reduce the impact of products on the environment. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoThe history of a chair | An example of what is meant by the term 'hidden ugliness'. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The history of a chair | Transcript -- An example of what is meant by the term 'hidden ugliness'. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe designer's role in sustainable development | Issues that a product designer should consider in order to make a product sustainable. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The designer's role in sustainable development | Transcript -- Issues that a product designer should consider in order to make a product sustainable. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoIncorporating sustainability in product design | The future challenges of sustainability that designers face and how these could be resolved. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Incorporating sustainability in product design | Transcript -- The future challenges of sustainability that designers face and how these could be resolved. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoThe five principles in design project work | In support of how the five principles of sustainability can help in design project work. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The five principles in design project work | Transcript -- In support of how the five principles of sustainability can help in design project work. | 19 7 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Director of ecoskill, e-learning courses for sustainable business
Clear summary of how product designers are so important in the creation of a new breed of low carbon, sustainable products. Good job we enjoy challenges!
