BA Interior ans Spatial Design, Chelsea college of art and design
воскресенье, 12 января 2014 г.
Concerns about rising energy costs and efficient use of resources; availability of, access to, and/or price volatility of critical materials; and the potential risks, opportunities and costs posed by industrial and consumer waste, are just a few of the reasons that manufacturers may want to begin thinking more seriously about sustainability. Sustainability truly isn't just for “treehuggers” anymore.
A common view among engineering, design and manufacturing executives alike is, “I believe sustainability is important, but how can our company justify supporting a more sustainable approach to product design and manufacturing?” (especially if my company isn't even involved in the development of a sustainable or “green” product line?) The short answer is, “because designing with sustainability in mind can yield many benefits – not just environmental ones.”
Unfortunately, a common misconception is that profitability must be sacrificed in order to achieve sustainability-related goals and objectives. Yet for a growing number of organizations, sustainability has served as the catalyst to drive both greater innovation and revenue.
This course helped me to understand how we can reduce rubbish by recycling materials in design and creative peace of art. Also I will try to use natural materials for less energy and water use.
This is the Portuguese market giving a show of creativity and sustainability
Geometry is present in the world of nature, at any scale. Almost every form found in our physical environment — waves, clouds, galaxies, cells, bird wings, leaves, seashells— follows geometrical configurations, either resembling the familiar shapes of our elementary school geometry or more complex fractals and recursions. The understanding of the geometric rules and forms underlying natural forms can hold lessons for the design of the man-made world, by capturing the structural efficiency of the form itself and leading to the proper choice of materials.
In found this book, Form Geometry Structure From Nature to Design, I explored many familiar forms found in nature. I tried to understand the geometry behind each form and recreated it as a digital model from the algorithmic rules the form is based on.
Of the many shapes explored, I found the nautilus shell one of the most intriguing and valuable for design applications. The nautilus has a bone structure externalized in a shell, which is divided into chambers and delineated by septa. The nautilus grows and creates a new larger camera, where it moves its body and seals the previous smaller chamber with a septum. The shell shape is based on a logarithmic spiral, a geometrical configuration which remains unchanged at any scale of growth. Inspired by the nautilus for the design of a large span structure, I recreated a parametric associative model of the shell in Bentley Generative Components. The design model followed the nautilus morphological characteristics: the septa represent the main structural system connected by a secondary system of ribs.
Neri Oxman is an Israeli architect , a brilliant designer and also a researcher from MIT. Her group explores “how digital design and fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings, and systems. Oxmanís goal is to enhance the relationship between the built and the natural environments by employing design principles inspired by nature and implementing them in the invention of digital design technologies.”
With these in mind, Neri and her group has produced many projects that are amazingly cool. They all show Neri’s idea of enhancing the relation between “natural and man-made environment”.
Mineralization processes form many natural structures and introduce metals, such as gold, into a rock. The resulting rock composition is stiffer and stronger. By using the ratio of stiff to soft materials, Stalasso mimics these mineralization processes for design purposes. This leads to construction based on performance requirements. For example, a bed, a table or a building’s ceiling could be tailored to respond to different weights across its surface according to specific requirements and preferences.
Monocoque stands for a construction technique that supports structural load using an object’s external skin. Contrary to the traditional design of building skins that distinguish between internal structural frameworks and non-bearing skin elements, this approach promotes heterogeneity and differentiation of material properties.
The project demonstrates the notion of a structural skin using a Voronoi pattern,the density of which corresponds to multi-scalar loading conditions. Its innovative 3D printing technology provides for the ability to print parts and assemblies made of multiple materials within a single build, as well as to create composite materials that present preset combinations of mechanical properties.
Design to Dematerialise & Develop Systems & Services
This strategy shows how systems and services provide access to the function or benefit of the product without the consumer having to own the product. It is a systematic way of thinking, where everything is connected like a complex web of relationships. It highlights the multi-functional development of on-line/local communities.
There are hundreds of maintenance and repair services that offer help restoring damage to garments like keepandshare which I looked at in a previous post, and thus a rising culture in sharing and collaborative consumption. Ebay is the father of this idea, allowing you to buy and sell without dealing with a middle man. There are also systems which offer free or cheap goods in either new or used conditions:
Free-Cycle.org - 'One man's trash is another man's treasure' Free Cycle is a service where you can collect goods that many people are uninterested in or do not use anymore. Not only is it an entirely non-profit movement but it promotes waste reduction as instead of throwing out an item you dislike, you can forward it to someone who does. It supports the re-use theory as it is a way of recycling something you don't want that others might have a use for. In London where items are regularly dumped on the street, it is an ecological and environmentally friendly way to dispose of unwanted possessions. They may not be worth much but there will definitely be someone who can find a use for it. I have to say over the past month of living in my new house my flatmate has acquired us goods ranging from chairs, to televisions to bags, beanbags and printers.
Boris Bikes
Boris bikes or Barclays Cycle Hire are a fantastic example of a service that everyone can use easily whenever and wherever they want. For the cost of a £1 you can hire out the BCH bikes for 24 hours and it is only £45 for the year. It is such a great method of transport that Boris johnson hopes will become as popular as black cabs or red buses around the streets of London.
Design to Replace the Need to Consume
She describes how the way we use internet has evolved from simply sharing information (emails, wikipedia), to connecting to others (facebook, twitter), to collaborating. She also demonstrates how websites like Ebay, Landshare, Air BnB, Hey Neighbor, WhipCar and many more mark the transition from “me” to “we”.
These innovations do not only happen online, but network technologies like smart phones and social networks provide “the efficiency and the social glue” that enable people to collaborate in meaningful ways.
She has identified three approaches that are symptomatic of this trend, which she be interprets as a move from ownership to access, and the emergence of a generation that is not looking for stuff, but for experiences.
Product Service Systems come from the understanding that, when we buy an object, what we really want is its usage. If we apply this idea to car companies for instance, this means that rather than selling cars, they are selling mobility services. Hence the emergence of car sharing businesses like Zipcars, for example, whose tagline is “wheels when you want them”. Bike sharing schemes are also a great illustration of the convenience of such an idea: the bike is handy for as long as we need it and disappears when we do not need it anymore. If we consider that, in average, 90% or the objects we own are used less than once a month, we start to understand the potential of such systems to address sustainability issues.
Like any second-hand shop, websites like Ebay or Freecycle allow people to sell unwanted items. However, the fact that they are online gives a new dimension to the idea. Rachel Botsman refers to the internet as the “ultimate match making machine”, that connects an incredibly wide range of people with an incredibly diverse range of wants to an incredibly diverse range of offers. Redistribution markets also have interesting sustainability implications, as they help to maximize the usage of a product and extend its life-cycle.
Finally, Rachel Botsman argues that network technologies facilitate the emergence of collaborative lifestyles. Couchsurfing, which connects travelers who need somewhere to sleep and people who have a spare bed, is one of many examples of this. It goes beyond just convenience: more than offering somewhere to sleep, it is about sharing hospitality, creating friendships and experiencing meaningful ways of travelling. It is about building social capital and thus making the world a smaller planet.
These kind of online platforms work because they place emphasis on trust: contributors are rated and reviewed by other members of the online community. This is characteristic of a transition to an economy where we are “being defined, not by what we consume, but by what we contribute.”
пятница, 22 ноября 2013 г.
Design
Activism
This
lecture I want to associate with my current group project. Our
project aboutDeptford
community.
Deptford
is a rapidly evolving area undergoing a huge regeneration. However,
its deep history is rooted in the local residents; a diverse group of
individuals, with many wondering how the area will shape in the
future.
We
have barely any experience of Deptford, and so we do not want to try
and tell the area’s history; instead, we want to design an action
where residents and visitors can create history. We want to share a
story told by the voices of those living in Deptford today.
Deptford
is unique, as it is a small home of cultural diversity, with
residents from many different nationalities. Everyone has taken
different paths, journeys and experiences to congregate in this same
place.
By
interviewing people’s stories, memories, experiences and facts
about their journey to Deptford, we wish to fragment these
conversations and randomly arrange new sentences from these broken
conversations to create another story.
We
want to push the boundaries between private and public space, so it
will be possible for people to participate in a private way, in order
to contribute to a public event.
The
installation will become an interactive stage; seen as a performance
in which you participate both as actor and audience.
The
performance will be executed in the form of silhouettes from shadows
and sound. The shadows will act as a disguise, allowing each person
to act without being “seen”. Each person’s contribution and
participation will make the plot.
A
similar effect will be created with an audio installation.
Conversations with Deptford residents about their journey there will
be recorded and randomly shuffled. By re-mixing their stories, they
will become less private, but will not lose their context. Even
though it will be nearly impossible to determine the flow of the
original conversations, the words will remain the same, and the story
changes from being an individual’s to a community’s. People can
find their stories on Deptford website, which we create to tell
people stories, history, facts about Deptford area.
As
the spatial intervention will take place in a Christmas Market, we
want to keep with these visual and atmospheric themes by creating a
cosy installation with narrative voices, light and movement. The
installation will communicate ideas of sharing and being together.
воскресенье, 17 ноября 2013 г.
Laser cutting
3-D printers are an exciting technology, but another hot new tool may have just as significant of an impact in real-world projects.
Laser cutters were invented almost 50 years ago, but only became part of the home workshop in the past few years. It is a technology that uses a laser to cut materials, and is typically used for industrial manufacturing applications. Laser cutting works by directing the output of a high-power laser, by computer, at the material to be cut.
If makers want to experiment with creative ideas that need to be produced with engineering-grade plastics, wood, leather, metal, or even food, laser cutters are often the only appropriate tool.
objects 05-06' surface studies by daniel widrig (laser cut paper)
Last year, I had an experience with the laser cutting at our university. Two times I've turned to this technique if the first time I did it successfully, then the second time was a failed. For the first project, I used a piece of wood and i I burnt out a map of places where I was doing the project. The second project I used thick paper, but even that did not help because my drawing was too small and complex, so it all crumbled.
Design that Explores Cleaner/Better Technologies
This weeks lecture was about design that explores cleaner,better technologies. How can we use new emerging technology + nature to make sustainable design.
The way which, I tell you it is naturel and do not need to spend anything. Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature and attempts to imitate it within design in a sustainable way. It is believed that nature has already solved many of the problems we are dealing with at the moment.
Many designers are studying bee's in nature to mimic the way they create their nests/hives. One designer has created a series of limited edition vases, the process is called ‘slow prototyping’. The designer allows the bee's to make their honeycomb hives in the shape of vases.
Suzanne Lee is a London based fashion designer working on fashion and future technologies.
She is a Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Director of The BioCouture Research Project. Lee's latest garment - which uses these growing textiles - is the 'biocouture' jacket made from cellulose. Instead of coming from plants, the cellulose is produced by millions of tiny bacteria grown in bathtubs of sweet green tea.
Her pioneering project which demonstrates growth of a biomaterial using nothing other tan sugary tea and bacteria, will also be presented at this time. the 'eco-textile' is grown in flat sheets which are then cut to shape, sewn together or moulded over 3D forms.
jacket sleeve seam detail
I really want to try a new technology for myself it is 3D printing. I had never used this method in my models and projects, but I think it is a very useful way to present your ideas in a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. 3D printing is also considered distinct from traditional machining techniques, which mostly rely on the removal of material by methods such as cutting or drilling. It has been speculated that 3D printing may become a mass market item because open source 3D printing can easily offset their capital costs by enabling consumers to avoid costs associated with purchasing common household objects.
Patrick Jouin's 3D-Printed Bloom Table Lamp Opens Like a Flower
Future applications for 3D printing might include creating open-source scientific equipment or other science-based applications like reconstructing fossils in paleontology, replicating ancient and priceless artifacts in archaeology, reconstructing bones and body parts in forensic pathology, and reconstructing heavily damaged evidence acquired from crime scene investigations. The technology is even being explored for building construction.
In 2011 I was visited London Design Festival, an installation, curated by Murray Moss and focused on 3D Printing, was held in the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A). The installation was called Industrial Revolution 2.0: How the Material World will Newly Materialize.
A 3-D–printed replica of a 19th-century bust, with a hat by Stephen Jones, which was shown at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum
This is the Melonia shoe, 14 pairs of which currently surround the hot and sexy Bed of Ware at the Victoria & Albert Museum, as part of the big 3D printing installation
Processes invented using cleaner/better technologies & models from nature:
Light - Using light technology to cut, engrave & stick: laser cutting, laser etching, laser welding
Water - Using water to cut: jet cutting
Sound- Using Sound to stick:Ultrasonic welding
Heat- using heat to stick, cut and melt: welding, plasma cutting, reforming,chemical re-processing of polyester
Nano technology, shape memory alloys, magnetic shape, self-healing materials
Zero waste- Using every scrap: 3D warp knitting- on knitting machine all bits knitted together creating structure & form
