Royal tobaco are doing good for the envirinment

Today I had a meeting with compost Montreal, a company that treats organic wastes. Through them I was able to learn that one of the major tobacco company, royal tobacco is actually doing some effort for a sustainable future. They recycle and now they also compost their organic wastes. We should all take their example and reduce what we throw away in landfills, and try to upcycle as much as we can! Compost today and see greener tomorrow;)

Eceryone is making their part to make the world a greener place

Yesterday I had a meeting with compost Montreal. A company that specialise in composting organic waste for residancial and commercial markets in the Montreal area. I found out that one of the major companies in the tobaco industry uses their services. Royal Tobaco is now recycling and also composting their wastes, a great step for a greener future. This should really make us think, if a company that as been critisized so much about the harm they do to our environment is able to take a leap forward to composte, upcycle, why do you and me still throw our food in the conventional grabage? Composting helps reduce lanfills, transportaion of our wastes, and gives a bonus of creating great food for our plants.

Think twice next time you go to the garbage and look at what you are really throwing away!

Great discovery when I was bored!!

Yesterday I was sitting home looking at the hours pass, and decided to search on the internet what would come up when I entered my name in google. To my suprise I discovered that somone had written an article on one of my old design project.

http://www.instablogs.com/outer_permalink.php?p=recycled-industrial-waste-converted-into-furniture-that-doubles-as-plant-feeder

Interesting little video on eco-currency!

A good description on our eco-currency and it’s value in our society.

A great possibility to make money out of trees other then burning and chopping them down!!

My final thesis on emotional sustainable design

sustainable design, emotional design, design, eco-design, green design, slow design, master design, research design

This is my final presentation of my master design research; a book on emotional sustainable design.

For people that might be interested in my final outcome, feel free to browse my work on issuu, where I have uploaded my ‘book’. For more details on my work and for interest in discussing my findings and research in greater details feel free to leave a comment on my blog, I will get back as soon as I can.

http://issuu.com/Claudel/docs/claudel_s_thesis?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true

For PDF version; Emotional Durability is the new Sustainability

Emotional durable design process and concepts

This chart is a conclusion of my findings on emotional durable design processes. These are the various possible approaches designers can take to add an emotional bond between users and their objects that I have discovered. What emotional value (user/object relationship) can be gained from these design and marketing processes?

Research outcomes.

The aim of this research is to understand how as designers can we design longer lasting, and more enjoyable design objects for the broad public.

Through my primary and secondary research I have perceived certain recurrent themes. I believed these had a great relevance to creating emotional durable design objects. I decided to base three design concepts on these themes to challenge. This questionnaire/presentation is a manner I decided to test my findings against people personal and professional ideas and reactions on these outcomes.

I am now looking for inputs on my research outcomes, do you believe these three concepts have a relevance to a sustainable outcome for emotional durable design

Design feedback

Please if you could answer the following questionnaire, and send to the following email address claudeldissertation@gmail.com. I thank you all in advance to the contribution you will have on my research!!

Time is money?

This post is inspired by Carl Honore’s talk on TED.

What does this phrase mean ‘Time is money’ in the world of product/object development? Should we produce more objects in limited time frames? Is taking the time for strong research, negative? Are the following ideas negative for the industry or can the opposite be perceived as actual benefits, ‘Good use of time, is money worth a smile in the long run!’.

Should we  take our time to understand the needs and desires of our customer(s)? Should we take time to ask questions?  Should we take our time to challenge design and life problems? Could we take our time to look at people, and time pass? Can we still take the time to dream? Can taking time to enjoy our social life be positive for economical profits?

Can we become more productive when we take our time?

P.S. If you have other concepts of interesting use of time, feel free to comment.

Producing design by inspiration of the organic food industry.

TED talk; Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish

Designing todays is becoming the industrial cattle farms, where quality is given up for quantity. Can we produce design such as the organic food industry? Can we design objects like we restaurant create meals from local and sustainable industries? Can we produce design like meals, to look good and feel good.

How many new gadgets are released every year? How many of these gadgets are solving our long term needs and desires? When was the last time you as a consumer purchased an object that you knew you would pass down to your children? It is time to be inspired by the food industry that is slowly turning a page to look into local community food production. Can we reduce the amount of design objects we produce every year, to ensure that what is produced is ‘good’. Objects that have had the time to be thought, that have been tested by consumers, objects that are master piece in their industry. If designers are to achieve this they will need to reduce production quantity, and specialise on location. People have different needs and desires in Vancouver and  in Tokyo, but why do we produced the exact same design for both people?  Is it time to realize that to produce ‘better’ design we have to look (be inspired) by the consumer not the profit margin (that will follow in the long run). Can the design industry start to shift toward a  slow design approach, as the food industry been slowly shifting toward.

This TED talk is a great inspiration on how different aspect of the food industry choices and solutions will impact on the final good.

Proof of over consumption!

‘….a Dutch organization recently estimated that the total amount of unused things in attics, cellars and sheds add up to about nine billion euros worth in the Netherlands alone’ (Hinte, Ev 2004, Eternally yours: time in design : product value sustenance, 010 Publshers, Rotterdam.)