Design for Environmental Sustainability

by Vezzoli, Carlo; Manzini, Ezio

ISBN13: 9781848001626

ISBN10: 1848001622

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 2008-12-01

Publisher(s): Springer Verlag

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"Design for Environmental Sustainability is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products." "Design for Environmental Sustainability provides a comprehensive framework and a practical tool to support the design process. The book offers an organic vision of methodologies, tools and strategies for the integration of environmental requirements into product development. Possible strategies and design guidelines are highlighted, accompanied by a large selection of high-quality environmentally-aware product design case studies." "Design for Environmental Sustainability is an important text for all students, designers and design engineers interested in product development processes."--BOOK JACKET.

Frame of Reference	p. 1
Sustainability and Discontinuity	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Sustainable Development and Environmental Sustainability	p. 4
Preconditions of Environmental Sustainability	p. 6
Ten Times More Eco-efficient Production System	p. 6
Bio- and Technocycles	p. 8
Biocompatibility and Biocycles	p. 9
Non-interference and Technocycles	p. 9
Industrial Ecology and Dematerialisation	p. 10
Transition Scenarios	p. 11
Strategy of Efficiency: A Radical Way of Doing Things Better	p. 12
Strategy of Sufficiency: A Radical Way of Doing Less	p. 12
Compound Strategy	p. 13
Products, Contexts and Capacities	p. 15
Introduction	p. 15
Product-based Well-being	p. 16
The World as a Supermarket	p. 16
The Paradox of "Light Products"	p. 17
Lightness as a Non-sufficient but Necessary Condition	p. 18
Access-based Well-being	p. 19
The World Is Like a Theme Park	p. 19
The Material Ballast of Information	p. 20
Service Orientation as a Pre-requisite of Sustainability	p. 21
Crisis of Local Common Goods	p. 22
The Role of Common Goods	p. 22
The Sprawl of Remedial Goods	p. 23
Context-based Well-being	p. 24
Well-being as a Development of Capacity	p. 25
Unsustainable Comfort	p. 25
Disabling and Enabling Solutions	p. 26
The Forces Behind Changes	p. 27
A Social Learning Process	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
The Production-Consumption System	p. 29
Consumers/Users and Co-producers	p. 30
The (Potential) Strength of Consumers	p. 31
Critical Consumption	p. 32
People as Co-producers	p. 32
Active Minorities and Auspicious Cases	p. 33
Enterprises and New Forms of Partnership	p. 35
Producing Value by Reducing Consumption	p. 35
New Methods of Running Business	p. 36
Eco-efficient Businesses	p. 37
From Product to System Eco-efficiency	p. 38
Looking for New Solutions	p. 38
Starting from the Results	p. 39
Business and Social Innovation	p. 39
The Public Sector (and the Rules of the Game)	p. 41
Facilitate the Social Process of Learning	p. 41
Amplifying the Feedback	p. 42
Supporting the Offer of Alternative Solutions	p. 43
Promoting Adequate Communication	p. 44
Designating Adequate Economical Costs to Natural Resources	p. 45
Extended Producer Responsibility	p. 45
Designers and Co-designers	p. 46
Limits and Opportunities of the Designer's Role	p. 46
Operative Fields for Design for Sustainability	p. 47
Design for Environmental Sustainability	p. 51
Life Cycle Design	p. 53
Introduction	p. 53
Environmental Requirements of Industrial Products	p. 53
Product Life Cycle	p. 55
Introduction	p. 55
Pre-production	p. 56
Production	p. 57
DSollribution	p. 58
Use	p. 58
Disposal	p. 58
Additional Life Cycles	p. 59
Functional Approach	p. 60
Life Cycle Design	p. 61
Life Cycle Design Objectives	p. 62
Implications of Life Cycle Design	p. 62
The Design Approach	p. 63
Strategies of Life Cycle Design	p. 64
Interrelations Between the Strategies	p. 65
Priorities Among the Strategies	p. 66
Design for Disposal	p. 69
Environmental Priorities and Disposal Costs	p. 69
Current State of Life Cycle Design	p. 70
Minimising Resource Consumption	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Minimising Material Consumption	p. 74
Minimising Material Content	p. 74
Minimising Scraps and Discards	p. 79
Minimising Packaging	p. 80
Minimising Materials Consumption During Usage	p. 84
Minimising Materials Consumption During the Product Development Phase	p. 89
Minimising Energy Consumption	p. 90
Selecting Low Impact Resources and Processes	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
Selection of Non-toxic and Harmless Resources	p. 106
Select Non-toxic and Harmless Materials	p. 106
Selecting Non-toxic and Harmless Energy Resources	p. 112
Renewable and Bio-compatible Resources	p. 117
Select Renewable and Bio-compatible Materials	p. 118
Select Renewable and Bio-compatible Energy Resources	p. 125
Product Lifetime Optimisation	p. 131
Useful Lifetime	p. 131
Why Design Long-lasting Goods?	p. 132
Why Design Intensely Utilised Goods?	p. 135
Social and Economic Dimensions of Changes	p. 137
Optimisation Services	p. 138
Guidelines	p. 138
Designing for Appropriate Lifespan	p. 139
Designing for Reliability	p. 141
Facilitating Upgrading and Adaptability	p. 141
Facilitating Maintenance	p. 145
Facilitating Repairs	p. 148
Facilitating Re-use	p. 150
Facilitating Re-manufacturing	p. 154
Intensifying Use	p. 155
Extending the Lifespan of Materials	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
Guidelines	p. 165
Adopting the Cascade Approach	p. 166
Selecting Materials with the Most Efficient Recycling Technologies	p. 168
Facilitating End-of-life Collection and Transportation	p. 170
Identifying Materials	p. 172
Minimising the Overall Number of Different Incompatible Materials	p. 173
Facilitating Cleaning	p. 176
Facilitating Composting	p. 177
Facilitating Combustion	p. 178
Facilitating Disassembly	p. 181
Introduction	p. 181
Guidelines	p. 187
Reducing and Facilitating Operations of Disassembly and Separation	p. 188
Engaging Reversible Joining Systems	p. 191
Engaging Permanent Joining Systems that Can Be Easily Opened	p. 193
Co-designing Special Technologies and Features for Crushing Separation	p. 194
Using Materials that Are Easily Separable After Being Crushed	p. 196
Using Additional Parts that Are Easily Separable After the Crushing of Materials	p. 197
System Design for Eco-efficiency	p. 199
Economic Restrictions in Traditional Supply and Demand System	p. 199
System Innovation for New Interactions Between Socio-economic Actors	p. 202
The Supply Model of the Product Service System	p. 203
Guidelines	p. 204
Services Providing Added Value to the Product's Life Cycle	p. 205
Services Providing "Final Results" for Customers	p. 206
Services Providing "Enabling Platforms for Customers"	p. 208
Strategic System Design for Eco-efficiency	p. 212
Methods and Support Tools for Environmental Sustainability Analysis and Design	p. 213
Environmental Complexity and Designing Activity	p. 215
Introduction	p. 215
Methods and Tools for Design for Environmental Sustainability	p. 216
Estimating the Environmental Impact of Products: Life Cycle Assessment	p. 219
The Environmental Impact of Our Production-Consumption System	p. 219
Exhaustion of Natural Resources	p. 220
Global Warming	p. 220
Ozone Layer Depletion	p. 221
Smog	p. 222
Acidification	p. 223
Eutrophication	p. 223
Toxic Air, Soil and Water Pollution	p. 224
Waste	p. 225
Other Effects	p. 226
Quantitative Methods for Estimating and Analysing Product Environmental Impact	p. 226
Life Cycle Assessment	p. 227
Stages of LCA	p. 228
LCA and Design: Importance and Limitations	p. 236
Power to Choose: Discriminant Power Versus Scientific Reliability	p. 237
Incisive Decisions: First Stages of Development Versus LCA Applicability	p. 238
Developing LCA	p. 239
Environmentally Sustainable Design-orienting Tools	p. 243
Introduction	p. 243
Tools Developed for Certain Environmental Goals	p. 243
Limitations of Tools that Are Developed for Certain Environmental Goals	p. 245
Tools for Product LCD	p. 246
Tools for Design for Eco-efficiency	p. 247
The Roadmap and the State of the Art	p. 251
Evolution of Sustainability in Design Research and Practice	p. 253
Introduction	p. 253
Evolution of Sustainability in Design	p. 255
Low Impact Resources Selection	p. 256
Product Life Cycle Design	p. 257
System Design for Eco-efficiency	p. 258
Design for Social Equity and Cohesion	p. 260
State of the Art	p. 262
Design Criteria and Guidelines	p. 263
Diagrams of Environmental Impacts	p. 273
References	p. 283
Index	p. 297
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