Finessing the finite: Sustainability in art and design

Here a few of the things on sustainability and design that we discussed with Sophie Thomas of thomas.matthews:

- implementing sustainability into your designs means that you need to understand the whole process your ‘product’ goes through
- once you understood the whole process, this knowledge can feed into changing the design brief you have been given
- 80% of the impact of a product is influenced by its design
- find out what are your own principles, understand them and act according to them
- design your research into your projects

And here a few references that we shared:

Cradle To Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by By William McDonough & Michael Braungart

Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network (CIKTN)

Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest – with a large knowledge bank on sustainability for the design community