notes

tutorial four CCT333: externalized costs: real costs of making stuff arent captured in the price. We arent paying for what we buy. I.e a radio for $4.00 somthing like a radio....wont pay the rent for the person who sold it. LOSS OF NATURAL RESOURCE PAYED. health insurance. People pitched in for all these products.

mexico markadura: payed little cuz theyre outside any government. people who have

perceived obsolescence: convinces us to throw away stuff that are perfectly okay! still gud enough. but we still throw away because of ads. Ads try to make us unhappy with what we have. buying newer version each year. stems from fashion.

Shopping: primary identity is to shop...how much we contribute to the arrow. 99% of what we buy is trashed within six months. The american purpose is to provide more consumer goods.

planned obsolescence: design for the dump. Make stuff to be useless so it breaks down and we chuck it. Designers do this. stemming more from technical stuff. i.e the motherboard.

materials throughput: how materials go through the system and how they affect the system

national happiness:has been declining because we have less time for the things that make us happy. we work more to pay for the stuff we buy.

upstream waste:everything thats used in the production of waste. Downstream goes out.

closed loop production: check out cradle to cradle, you will not make anything thats toxic to the system. Is that evrything we create is non toxic and that it goes back to earth without harming us.

zero waste:i.e plastic shopping bags that are made from plastic bags. no waste

green chemistry:cradle to cradle< not making anything toxic.

BEST CASE SCENARIO: not for dump, shifting subsidies, changing the rules etc of zero waste. Where every part is analysed and held accountable. All important. See manufactured landscape!

Also see the story of electronics. Think about personal inspiration narrative,

local living economies:

design: step by step process..loading external flash in a chronological organisation>>making sure that people with unlimited bandwidth can see it. She used black and white. Her voice exceptionally clear. Using annotated bibliography. She's pointing to all the references...to build in conversation and crediting those who created it.

note: economics of happiness, new movie. and seeds.org

systems and how they are generated.

Dr Vandana Shiva: making sure seeds are hand given making are that they are not being genetically modified.

Tutorial FIVE:

Participatory design: someone living the life of someone to disable. Recreating the circumstance of someone with various activities. Experience prototyping. to understand what people go through

Case studies:

1.) blindness

2.)ADDHD: attention deficit disorder

3.)Chronic athritis

2ND VID:

disposable cups: hygeine, plastic leeching with hot water. cup that had a barcode in the bottom. As soon as u scan>>>faster line>>>evry tenth cup of coffee you get free>>>reference>>>

Tutorial six: biomimicry: learning an idea from an organism and applying it/conscious emulation of the natural world. the genius of the natural world.

bacteria to clean water isnt exactly being inspired by nature.

problem: scaling :building up of minerals inside their pipes Seashell had the same minerals in them same process as pipes without the protein. Why aren't shells infinite? what keeps them going? they let go of the protein that cuases the biuld up of minerals.

They would snurkle for as long as people. lack of information was not the problem. No integration.

money? it comes from the natural world. not destroying its immediate environment if it goes back to water its not harming the water. answers to questions are in nature. important thing are solutions solved in the earths context.

In IT, we have learned a lot from software....how about hardware? not just IT but everything. Redesigning the world that we live in. Cradle to Cradle. Nothing destructive.

How does life make thing? Life cant afford heat, beat and treat. i.e matter

How does life give things structure?

How does life make things dissappear? i.e everything things is symbiotic...only humans that have designed things that are outside of the natural

12 big ideas from biology

1. self assembly>>i.e the shell. it happens in sea water i.e ceramic painting. Imagine making all of our hard materials that way. silicon structure coming out of room temperature.

2.) CO2 as a feed stock.

3.) Solar transformation

4.)

5.) quenching thirst.

6.) Metals without mining

7.)green chemistry. I.e silk coming out of a spider.

8.)timed degradation:

9>0 Healing and resilience. i.e vaccines...no longer needing to be refrigerated in ordert o create a vaccine that can be stored in gloves.

other animals do the things they do while thinking about thier offspring. not harming thier environment