Research Point Slow Design

What are the guiding principles of this movement?

The slow design focuses on process, origin and materials while valuing the environment and the individual. It began in Italy in 1986 as a reaction against McDonald's fast food.

The principles are:

1. REVEAL: reveal experiences in everyday life which are missed or forgotten, including the materials and processes that can be easily overlooked in an artifact's existence or creation. (Slow perspectives and practices in virtual experiments - The night journey)
2. EXPAND: consider the real and potential "expressions" of artifacts and environments beyond their perceived functionalities, physical attributes and lifespans. (Changes in energy behaviour Ramia Mazé, Intimacy and interdependence with the objects around us Monika Hoinkis, reducing power to facilitate slowness Olivier Peyricot)
3. REFLECT: SlowLab has coined 'reflective consumption'. Simon Heijdens believes that design should, like nature, unleash a continuum of expressions over time.
4. ENGAGE: Slow design processes are open-source and collaborative. Human chair by Martin Ruiz de Azua
5. PARTICIPATE: The slow design encourages users to become active participants in the design process, embracing ideas of conviviality and exchange to foster social accountability and enhance communities. 
6. EVOLVE: The slow design recognises that richer experiences can emerge from the dynamic maturation of artifacts, environments and systems over time. Edible estate / landscape 

https://manuelthiessart.wordpress.com/tag/slow-design/

Project 1: Exercise 2

http://www.sustainableproduction.org/proj.sustprod.FiveQuestions.php

Clothing to dye for: the textile sector must confront water risks

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/dyeing-textile-sector-water-risks-adidas

Textiles Exercise 1

How would you define 'sustainability'?

If the textile production is one of the most polluting industries in the world, their life cycle must be taken into consideration. There are products which have a shorter life than others such as a carpet cold have a longer life than a fashion shirt. Producers, as well as designers, end users, must be responsible according to waste management. Re-using raw materials, their recycling is in focus for decades. For example, plastics (polyester, polypropylene) are recycled/reused for the nonwoven industry of filters, diapers, geotextiles. The consumption in the balance of recycling.


Sustainability:

• Bussines/Industry: the western culture is based on consumption. The automotive industry is an example where everlasting sustainability keeps them in sales numbers. How we will deal with continuous consumption?
• Environment: the focus on 'green' policy to not pollute Earth.
• Resources: Sustainability to exploit alternative energy
• Food waste change
• Recyclate materials

Sustainability in production and consumption of textiles:

• Raw material. Land and water used for grow natural fibres. Fossil extraction for synthetic fibres.
• Production: energy and waste management, added chemicals, questions about workers/customers safety issues,
• Use/ consumption: durability and stability, longevity issue, recyclization, treatments issue

Assignment 4

It was great to analyse Michals Duane's work. This assignment changed my understanding how the ambiguity of a work can be changed when we add more information. I have never realised how a still image in a film can be a powerful tool to let the audience in uncertainty.

Assignment 4

Tutor's feedback

Tutor recommended me to rework the assignment. I made some changed in the introduction and polished some sentences.

Assignment 4 reworked