My Topic and References

Main topic/Critical perspective. 

Topic: Nature + Sustainability - Sustainable/Eco design.

Thesis: Design should be environmentally sustainable and benefit users.

Idea: Design should be environmentally sustainable. 

Idea: Design should inspire people to see the world in a new way.  

How these sources are going to support my statement. 

1- Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things.

What I am taking from this book is the topic of waste equals food. This idea of how waste can be recycled to create better things. There is a good example in this book of how nature is recycling what’s other think are useless. For an example, vegetable oil. At one time, shoes were tanned with vegetable chemicals, which were relatively safe, so the wastes from their manufacture posed no real problem. The shoe could biodegrade after its useful life or be safety burned. This kind of example can back up my statement of how eco design is for the better and not for worse. (How they are biodegradable). There are plenty of examples of environmentally friendly design throughout this book which mostly relate back to nature which will be good to back up certain points in my essay. 

2- The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture and Human Intention.

This book will back up my topic because this book teaches us to look at human design in new ways. How designers need to look at how they are designing and designing with ecology in mind. This book is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, energy, and how to deal with waste. An early example of people using a mind of ecology is the hunter-gatherers who lived on current solar income. Feudal barons extracted wealth from sunlight by exploiting serfs who farmed the land. This book also talks about the barriers of eco-design which can be very helpful in my essay with reasons why we do certain designs to help the environment. 

 

3- Bio design: Nature technology creativity.

This is the main book I’ll be referencing in my essay because of the variety of designers that portray good Eco-design such as a this car which with the abundant heat and carbon dioxide generated by conventional combustion engine is harnessed in a car to feed algae and thereby create bio-fuel that powers the vehicle further. This is a prime example of a useful Eco-design that can help users with real life struggles such as petrol. This book will back up my statement very well with multiple good Eco-designs within it and has images to reference into the essay as well.   

My A.P.A reference. 

McDonough, W., & Braungart, M. (2002). Cradle to cradle: Remaking the way we make things. New York: North Point Press.

Orr, D. (1994). The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture and Human Intention. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Meyers, W. Bio design: Nature technology creativity. (2012). Farnborough: Thames & Hudson.

Project two ideas

Ideas for topics:
-Activism + Design - Hactivism

-Nature + sustainability - Sustainable/ eco design
           - Fry, T. (2012).Becoming human by design. London: Berg.
           - Fry, T. (2009).Design Futuring: Sustainability, ethics,and new practice(Revised/Expanded                    ed.). Oxford: Berg
           - Meyers, W.Bio design: Nature technology creativity. (2012). Farnborough:  Thames                    &Hudson.
           - Orr, D. (1994).The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture and Human Intention. NewYork:                      Oxford University Press.

-Craft + Technology - Machine + human hand
           - Henchoz, N. (2014).Design for Innovative Technology. London: Routledge
           - Dormer, P. (1997).The culture of craft: Status and future. Manchester, UK:Manchester                University Press
           - McCullough, M. (1996).Abstracting craft the practiced digital hand. Cambridge,Mass.: MIT               Press.
           - Lipson, H., & Kurman, M. (2013).Fabricated: The New World Of 3D Printing.Indianapolis,                Indiana: Wile

-Culture + Design - Globalization + design 

All my photos...

Critical perspective/hikau's

My Critical Perspective

Design should reflect a global culture. A global culture is something that is done all around the world. Culture is defined as a way of life therefore a global culture is something that is done worldwide. What I have taken from a global culture perspective is this idea of 'hidden art'. Which to me is objects or spaces that get past by every day and get unnoticed such as alley ways full of art, culture and identity. I want to tell a narrative throughout my photography of how these spaces get past by daily when these spaces have a lot of meaning in them and has a cultural reference engraved within these spaces.  

Hikau's
(Chosen one)

Born with a culture,
Striving to make ourselves heard,
We live in shadows.
(Chosen one)

Culture is within us,
We are an exposed culture,
But we are hidden.

The darkness is there,
The beauty is also there,
 Just walk on in there.

Using the readings to my advantage was best because it made me understand what i had to do as a flanuer. Walking in the city readings and Urban future manifestos.

"We live in a inverted panopticon where urban dwellers hide behind a veneer of cultivation "civilized" and detached."

"Escaping the imaginary totalizations produced by the eye, the everyday has a certain strangeness that does not surface."  - I really like this quote because the strangeness can realate to my "hidden art" theory and how it does not get seen everyday and how its has always been in the shadows.

"The production of its own space, rational organization must thus repress all the physical, mental and political pollutions that would compromise it;"

Hidden art works well,
Because it's in the shadows,
Which is for the best.

final 8 image after photoshop

My chosen 8 image before photoshop

Finalising my perspective + Haiku

Me blah-ing away:
(Ill have more direct photos on Friday)
So my final idea is about hidden design. What I mean by 'Hidden' design, is where people just walk past these great design's in these places such as an alley way's where the whole place looks dead because there is no one that walks through and sticks to the main road. So in my photo's I want to express this hidden world through my images.

I haven't taken my main hidden design photos yet because I was to busy getting lost an photography interesting/ stand out objects. But here is a bunch of images that slightly represent my idea.

My photography will be all the same perspective, so for example all in focus in front of the camera. But I'm most likely to use a side on view of the actually alley way.

From the reading "Material Culture and Narrative" they talk about narrating objects.
"At an individual level, narratives consist of the accounts or stories people tell themselves and others".

"Individuals tell their lives through stories.... This process of narrtivization tells us a great deal about the meanings of people apply to their lives."  

"In settings and spaces where the meaning of objects is open to interpretation or debate".

"Narratives also circulate within cultures, telling members of a group about their own culture."

Critical perspective:
 My critical perspective of this idea of 'hidden art' is objects or spaces that get past by everyday and get unnoticed such as alley ways full of art, culture and identity. I want to tell a narrative throughout my photography of how these spaces get past daily by when these spaces have a lot of meaning in them and has a cultural reference engraved within these spaces.  

Haiku's:
The darkness is there,
The beauty is also there,
 Just walk on in there.

Hidden art works well,
Because it's in the shadows,
Which is for the best.