Tuesday, November 16, 2010
A sentence that bothers me...
The looming obsolescence of 3 billion consumer electronics by 2010 calls for effective recycling of 10 billion pounds of high-value engineering thermoplastics. Because general shredding operations generate mixed plastics of low value, a switching rule is needed rapidly to identify plastics for sortation by colour and type to increase plastics-to-plastics recycling value.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Everything you think you thought ... just changed.
Q: Do you want to change the way you think about everything you think?
A: SixthSense Technology: Pranav Mistry
http://www.ted.com/talks /pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
Next step technology is here.
This is really exceptional. Innovative, clever, mind boggling. MP3 players and digital cameras.... pah!! they belong in the arc.
Just watch it!!!!!!
A: SixthSense Technology: Pranav Mistry
http://www.ted.com/talks /pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
Next step technology is here.
This is really exceptional. Innovative, clever, mind boggling. MP3 players and digital cameras.... pah!! they belong in the arc.
Just watch it!!!!!!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sustainable life needs to be re-invented.
"...the breakdown of society and the irreversible disruption of the life-support systems on this planet.". blueprint for survival
Professor Chris Ryan
Co-director of the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society (ACSIS) and Director of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL).
Why Design?
The role and practice of Design for Sustainability (ecodesign) is on the edge of a major transformation, as the world around us is about to be transformed. For close to two decades, designers have played a leading role in reconstructing the world to reduce the environmental impact of existing goods and services. Much of that work has been, appropriately, about building eco-desire – a task requiring designers’ skills every bit as significant as their ability to reduce the (life-cycle) impacts of products, buildings and services. New low-impact goods have to be more sexy, more desirable, than the high-impact one that they are seeking to replace.
Now, as we come to understand the implications of climate change, oil depletion, water shortages and resource insecurities it is suddenly clear that our world of products, buildings, services, systems of production and consumption and lifestyles, needs far greater change than can be achieved by making existing things more efficient. Sustainable life needs to be re-invented. Designers will be called on to re-organise systems, to redefine desirable life-styles, to revalue natural and social capital, rethink the satisfaction of human needs and to re-design business and zero-carbon products and services.
Professor Chris Ryan
Co-director of the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society (ACSIS) and Director of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL).
Why Design?
The role and practice of Design for Sustainability (ecodesign) is on the edge of a major transformation, as the world around us is about to be transformed. For close to two decades, designers have played a leading role in reconstructing the world to reduce the environmental impact of existing goods and services. Much of that work has been, appropriately, about building eco-desire – a task requiring designers’ skills every bit as significant as their ability to reduce the (life-cycle) impacts of products, buildings and services. New low-impact goods have to be more sexy, more desirable, than the high-impact one that they are seeking to replace.
Now, as we come to understand the implications of climate change, oil depletion, water shortages and resource insecurities it is suddenly clear that our world of products, buildings, services, systems of production and consumption and lifestyles, needs far greater change than can be achieved by making existing things more efficient. Sustainable life needs to be re-invented. Designers will be called on to re-organise systems, to redefine desirable life-styles, to revalue natural and social capital, rethink the satisfaction of human needs and to re-design business and zero-carbon products and services.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Gaudi Stool
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxIs this the coolest stool on earth?
xxxxxxxxxxxxxhttp://mocoloco.com/
If I can leave UNSW having designed something a fraction as good as this then I know it will have been time well spent.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxhttp://mocoloco.com/
If I can leave UNSW having designed something a fraction as good as this then I know it will have been time well spent.
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