Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies

The design world reinvents assumptions and recombines ideas to turn “What if?” and “How might we?” into “What we can do.” Design thinking will be critical in taking the world of Collaborative Consumption out of the realm of possibilities and into real workable solutions, solutions that fulfill our consumer whims, desires, and unarticulated needs, b

The design presented in the rest of the book rests on three pillars. First, reduce waste and increase efficiency. It's possible to live with the same benefits as the rest of society for one quarter of what the average consumer spends. Many of these

As Manzini’s principles demonstrate, designers should be thinking more and more about the system in which a product or service is being used—all of the physical and cultural interfaces that intersect to create the context of usage. Although system design will become ever more important, products do still exist in Collaborative Consumption. Whether