SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Creating products that can be re-used easily in an eternal cycle. The end of the life-cycle of one product means the beginning of the lifecycle of another product.
- Design for disassembly for re-use/re-cycling.
- The user wants to be part of the re-use process.
- The product is made of local resources.
- The product is built by local people.
- Make it less complex and more elegant.
- Design packaging parallel with product
- More useful increase convenience
- Design one product with more functions not more product with less functions.
- Multiuse products can reduce consumption and increase convenience
- Make modular for ease of upgradeability, repair and recycling.
- Maximize recycled, recyclable, renewable
- and biodegradable materials
- PET, Polypropylene, HDPE, Wood,
- Steel, Aluminum and PLA for example
- Avoid toxic or harmful material and chemicals
- Reduce weight increase durability
- Minimize fasteners
