Chapter 16
Circularity for Design
IN THIS CHAPTER
Seeing how everything needs to be redesigned because of the growing environmental threats around us
Developing new design approaches for eliminating waste, extending useful life, and improving quality
Adopting construction best practices for a circular economy
Now is probably the most exhilarating time in history to be a designer, but maybe not for the reasons you think.
Though recent advances in computers, fabrication, lasers, sensors, robots, and artificial intelligence seem to point to some exciting new tools coming soon for designers, this isn’t why it’s an exciting time. They’re cool tools, for sure, but there’s a much bigger design challenge ahead of us.
The reason that this is such an exciting time to be a designer is that we need to redesign everything. Yes, you read that statement correctly: Virtually everything we use, from buildings to cars to that handy little egg poacher you got from your Aunt Mildred for your birthday, needs to be redesigned. These products were designed around a set of design parameters that are simply no longer true.
In this chapter, we explore how the changing world has forced us to rethink and ...
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