a-The first of the several reasons that design schools have yet to change their ways is that as American “we loath to change patters of consumption in order to protect the environment.” The second reason worth noting is that sustainability is hard to communicate and engage to clients and to designers due to the radical change in process.
b-The suggestions made by the author to incorporated the idea of sustainability as the “best design practice” in to curriculum is; a combination of projects that help that push the sensitivity of production, energy flow and materials used. The projects should also address waste reduction and redefinition.
c-We can play the leading role berceuse we “ explore and explain complex systems”. As designers we communicate visually an emotion, story, advertisement, whatever subject that is needed to be communicated.
d–The requirements for sustainable curriculum are; broad social engagement, cross-disciplinary and collaborative teaching structures and the capacity to seek out and integrate knowledge of “best practice” that goes beyond the standard isolated professional practice.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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2 comments:
This reflection is quite brief for what I would expect from you...
Where are your illustrator mockups? So far everything I've seen is conceptualization and sketches. YOu need to post digital mockups, you are behind on that K!
i have posted look...
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