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In the last decades, the relationship between designers and materials changed radically, bringing designers to relate to materials manipulation and production processes. At the end of the twentieth century, the growing attention to environmental issues reduced the choice of materials to those considered sustainable and risking to mortify, together with the materiality, the expressive-sensorial richness of the objects. Therefore, recycled materials have become part of the choices available to designers, foreshadowing new challenges for redesigning their aesthetic aspect and identity. Recently, the dissemination of the maker culture through the Fablabs and the promulgation of the DIY phenomenon, have favorited a rapprochement between designers and materials and their transformation, leading them to enter the interspace between research on materials and their applications. The paper focuses on the experimental research aimed to design new materials experiences and identities which allowed the exploration of new forms of recycling matter recovered from the decommissioning of GFRP boats.
Authors: Helga Aversa, Valentina Rognoli, Carla Langella
The aim of this work is to present an initiative to take advantage of the PLA waste discarded and to carry out experiments through the process of mechanical recycling of the material. PLA is a biopolymer from renewable sources that is extensively used in 3D printing in form of filament. The PLA waste is recovered on an additive manufacturing services bureau and goes through a mechanical recycling process in Materials and Design Laboratory at University of State of Pará. Some researches are conducted with the purpose of evaluating the material performance when added natural fibers such as jute and açaí. As impact on sustainability it increases awareness of sustainability in additive technologies and encourages research about the PLA recycling and developing of new materials and products with this recycled material.
Authors: Camilla Dandara Pereira Leite, Leticia Faria Teixeira, Lauro Arthur Farias Paiva Cohen, Nubia Suely Silva Santos
Students and staff consume a staggering amount of food packaging daily with short lifespans lasting a few minutes before being thrown away. The paper created a regenerative system to improve university campuses’ sustainable lifestyles in Egypt, focusing on the German University in Cairo (GUC) as a case study. The GUC is self-sufficient where services and products are produced on campus. However, attention is not given to packaging of food served. Therefore, the paper’s main focus is on the system of serving food at the GUC with the aim of implementing the outcome on other campuses. The outcome targets youth who tend to follow trends easier and faster and lifestyles in universities will positively influence society. This research used behavioural studies on participants studying and working at the GUC to gain information about packages consumed daily. The system improves sustainability by reducing carbon emissions, money spent on packages, and landfill space.
Authors: Nariman G. Lotfi, Sara Khedre
Peoples’ behaviours are projection of their experiences in everyday life. Mental adaptation of rapid changing environment
results in subconscious stress. This has become one of the major concerns in current developing urban
contexts. Well planned architectural elements contribute significantly to environment influences well being and
sustainable behaviour. Religious buildings are apt cases of those environments designed for human mind and higher
spirituality. Study mapped human behaviours in three different religious buildings, i.e., mosque, temple and church
located in Bhopal city of India. It compares the conscious and subconscious behaviour of visitors based on common
parameters mapping of movement patterns, sitting angles and resting points in religious premises. These behaviour
patterns analyze with sensory perception of those design elements and principles which provoked the same common
to all case studies. Study discusses impact of design elements on user mind and their effect on sustainable behaviour
and well-being.
Author: Ashish Saxena