Ephemeral objects for sustainability

Walker S. (2006) Ephemeral Objects for Sustainability: Light Touch. Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practise Pınar Şimşek

EphemeralObjects

ForSustainability

ligth touch


This creates a world of mediated experiences and produces a system that is increasingly divorced from the realities of people’s lives and realities of environmental devistation


SustainableDesign

People NaturalWorld


I-ItI-You“I-You relationship is not dependent on particulars; it is free of specific content.”


When the world is understood as living system with which we have reciprocal relationship, our material culture can be better understood as a concentration of resources that achieve a desired benefit for relatively short time

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Direct Encounter in The Creating of Material Goods

Transience of Products and to Incorporate This Recognition in Our Conceptual Understandings of Functional Objects


There Is a Disjuncture Between The Period of Anticipated Usefulness and The Period That

The Object Actually Exists


Design That Incorporate Pre-Existing Objects

Bird Feeder by Wanders From a Dinner Plate


Does using the exiting items to create new functional objects is a sustainable system in itself? With what kind of products can we sustain such a method?

Untill when a user can continue to build another functional object from a mass produced one?

While creating new functional objects from mass produced ones, what preventsthe manufacturers producing more and more? Are these symptomatic treatments as Chapman said in Real World Feasibility?

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