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For environmental product optimisation, an interdisciplinary design team needs to mutually align and assess the physical- and human impacting factors of a product system. This paper argues that this optimisation can be supported by a fast ‘back of the envelope’ recurring inventory- and analysis based intervention strategy that timely aids team members adequately document, present, and mutually align and assess interrelated product aspects among relevant stakeholders from within and beyond the team. Various distinguished design phase related environmental activities and -contribution types can further aid tailor the strategy. The use of natural and uninterpretable language and methodical concepts, as well as support of non-designers in creation, visualisation, and selection endeavours are suggested for improving interdisciplinary collaboration. Additionally, design team assistance is requested in verifying the full environmental potential of a design brief and illustrating its potential corporate gains, as to stimulate clients too to aspire to environmental product impact minimalization.
Authors: Reino Veenstra, Henri C. Moll
Urban poverty and its spatial manifestations are linked to social production of cities (ASF 2012). In this direction, ASF’s understanding of exclusionary practices and processes in the built environment is based on the idea that spa-tial structures are the means and outcome of social relations.
ERSILIAlab is a social/urban development programme in which ASF Italia aims at overcoming Roma’s difficult living conditions in informal camps and at promoting relationships between Roma and their nearest neighbours —called gadjé, namely not-Roma.
Italian political agenda has been studying possibilities of Roma’s inclusion for long, but no shared answers have been already achieved.
Since 2017, ASF Italia has been working in a Roma camp located in South-East Milan urban fringes. After a yearlong process, Roma and some neighbours have built together ERSILIAlab’s Carriage, a mobile public space to spread overlooked Roma’s culture and to share mutual knowledge, providing a participatory opportunity for cross-cultural relations.
Recent years have seen a rapid growth in the cultural and creative industries worldwide. The design quality of culture-
based products, however, is relatively low for a lack of reliable methods of designing and evaluating them. This
paper is aimed to establish a quantitative evaluation model for cultural-based product design. Firstly, keywords of
the comments on selected culture-based products were obtained through web crawler, text abstraction, and literature
review. Secondly, evaluation indicators on extracted were acquired through card sorting by experts, and weight score
was obtained through questionnaires. Finally, the quantitative evaluation model was obtained through logistic regression
analysis. The model proposed in this paper is helpful for designers to understand the development trend of
cultural creative design and the important factors influencing cultural creative design.
Authors: Pan Li, Baosheng Wang
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Industrial Designers need to understand the implications of the materials they specify in products intended for
manufacture. In order to equip students to be more conscious about the materials utilised and the environmental
impacts of these materials, the department of Industrial Design at the University of Johannesburg has incorporated
experimental material development into its Design Practice curriculum. This paper present a current annual project
undertaken where final year students are tasked with developing their own material composites which are used in
the signing and making of a product which they develop. This has been undertaken for two years, where the outcomes
of the projects have proved to be extremely valuable for the students. An overview of the project composition
and examples of student projects are presented, with recommendations for other design schools to attempt a similar
approach.
Author: Martin Bolton