1. William McDonough
This video, considers a product’s full life cycle — from creation with sustainable materials to a recycled afterlife is a really important part of our design and it is also affected by our society. The toy duck is one of the bad examples of a design that it is a toxic thing that can make people get cancer. This toy shows one design that did not have a plan of creation with sustainable materials to a recycled afterlife. So I thought the pursuit of happiness in the design make a design great, we can not establish our design on an abandoned level.
2. Suzanne Lee
In the video, Suzanne Lee uses a material that is not normally seen to make her design. Her idea is interesting to0 use the bacteria to make a cloth. Although she did not figure out how to make the cloth waterproof, it is a really good and unique idea. It is also really cool that she has this kind of thought to design a cloth that has a totally different material with other designers. I also want to try to make a cloth with different materials.
3. Janine Benyus
In the video, Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. I learned that we can find a lot of things in nature when we just look at it. The inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered are all came out from the natures. Let’s remember we are not the one who first know how to bust, it’s nature.
4. Neri Oxman
Neri Oxman is a designer and architect. She is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. I find this video is very interesting because she gives us the ability to think more of what we are designing and being more creative. Let’s using more recycling material than plastic in the future’s designs.
Part 2
- Based on Video 1– Provide 2- 3 examples from your physical and or social surroundings that need Cradle to Cradle (complete life cycle) intervention.
Paper is a cradle to cradle intervention because it was made of wood, and wood is taken from the tree. When we have one paper, we can reuse them a lot of times. Plastic is also can be cradle to cradle because it was made from polymer. And polymer is the pure material or polymeric material produced by the polymerization process. No matter natural resin or synthetic resin are polymer composite, referred to as polymer. And the wasted plastic can make a piece of cloth.
- Based on video 3– Provide 2-3 examples (include pictures you took not from the Internet!)
From the surrounding of objects that their design reminds you, motives/forms/shapes function from nature.
Show images of the inspiration and your findings on your LP
- The airplane is an intervention that enlightened by the bird.
- The submarine is an intervention that enlighted by the whale.
