Flat design
Flat design
Designing for sustainability and society
Grade 10 Product Design, Unit 2
Grade 10 Product Design, Unit 2
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Goal
Goal
Design an item of furniture that allows consumers to make sustainable choices
Design an item of furniture that allows consumers to make sustainable choices
Role
Role
You are a researcher and designer. Your role is to develop a solution for your user based on research and feedback.
Situation
Situation
The sustainable production and consumption of furniture is a challenge. Manufacturers must balance economic considerations with sustainable manufacturing processes and materials. Consumers cannot make sustainable decisions if they do not have sustainable options.
Cheap furniture, made using unsustainable practices, has a relatively short lifespan, and is often not repairable or durable. Discarded, low-quality furniture contributes significantly to land pollution.,
Technologies such as CAD/CAM can help meet these needs. Designers can optimize designs so that they are produced in a way that minimizes the impact on the environment while also meeting the users need for long-lasting, useful, and comfortable furniture that can be easily repaired.
Product
Product
Your inquiry will focus on developing a scale prototype of a solution. This prototype should be based on user research, feedback, and using the design cycle.
Your inquiry will focus on developing a scale prototype of a solution. This prototype should be based on user research, feedback, and using the design cycle.
You will produce the following
You will produce the following
An inquiry portfolio that documents your work on this project.
A prototype of a furniture solution based on a your analysis of user needs
A Presentation poster that communicates your idea.
Audience
Audience
You will present your solution to your chosen client, chosen expert, and design peers.
If you choose to work with Habitat for Humanity, you will need to follow the expectations outlined by them. The representatives will also provide feedback and guidance on how to approach the design problem.
Inquiry
Inquiry
Statement of Inquiry:
Statement of Inquiry:
Innovative solutions have positive social, economic, and environmental impact.
Innovative solutions have positive social, economic, and environmental impact.
Global Context:
Global Context:
Fairness and Development
Specifically, we will develop an appreciation of the impact of design innovations for life, global society and environment.
Our inquiry will explore:
How designs can improve the lives of under-served or disadvantaged people
How design processes and technology can play a role in creating equality
How designers identify users and challenges
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
We explore our inquire by also focusing on:
Sustainability: Sustainability is the capacity to endure, which can have environmental, economic and social dimensions. In this unit, sustainability will be considered in the following ways.
Sustainable consumption
Sustainable design
Sustainable development
Sustainable production
Perspective: Perspective relates to the point of view of various stakeholders involved in solving a problem. Stakeholders can have different perspectives and can include clients, target audiences, focus groups, consumers, manufacturers and experts.
Key Concept: Community
Key Concept: Community
Communities are groups that exist in proximity defined by space, time or relationship. Communities include, for example, groups of people sharing particular characteristics, beliefs.
Communities are groups that exist in proximity defined by space, time or relationship. Communities include, for example, groups of people sharing particular characteristics, beliefs.
Students will develop an understanding that a solution to a problem for one community will create problems for another, some on a small or even personal scale, while others may be far-reaching, affecting communities thousands of miles away or the global community.
When establishing the need and developing the design brief, the student always considers the community, whether this is a community that affects the design (target audience) or one that is affected by it. When developing ideas, engagement with the target audience and client drives the development to ensure it is fit-for-purpose, and the student must engage with the communities that effect and are affected by the solution when evaluating its effectiveness in solving the problem.
Inquiry Questions
Inquiry Questions
Factual Questions
Factual Questions
What are the ways a flat form can be transformed into a three dimensional form?
What are some idea generation strategies that designers use to develop new ideas/designs?
Conceptual Questions
Conceptual Questions
How do we measure the impact of a design on sustainability?
How can designers promote equity with their design decisions?
How might we design and manufacture in a sustainable way to meet a user's needs?
Debatable Questions
Debatable Questions
Is innovation necessary in order to design and manufacture in sustainable way?
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