Design and Sustainability - for iPad/Mac/PC

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Are you aware of the environmental impacts of the stuff you buy? Is that chair you bought made from wood from a sustainable forest, or was it illegally logged ? Or perhaps your TV set's inner parts are too difficult to recycle or cause pollution when it’s dismantled at the end of its life. All this…

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    • Mar 25, 2010 LATEST EPISODE
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    Design and Sustainability

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2010 1:20


    A short introduction to this album.

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    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2010


    Transcript -- A short introduction to this album.

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    Consumer product testing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009 4:06


    Representatives of Intertech, a product-testing company, discuss their methods of testing.

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    Transcript -- Consumer product testing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009


    Transcript -- Representatives of Intertech, a product-testing company, discuss their methods of testing.

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    Testing standards

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009 0:31


    Emphasising the importance of standards in consumer testing.

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    Transcript -- Emphasising the importance of standards in consumer testing.

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    The five principles of sustainability

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009 7:58


    The three layers of sustainability and the five principles to reduce the impact of products on the environment.

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    Transcript -- The five principles of sustainability

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009


    Transcript -- The three layers of sustainability and the five principles to reduce the impact of products on the environment.

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    The history of a chair

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009 1:23


    An example of what is meant by the term 'hidden ugliness'.

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    Transcript -- The history of a chair

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009


    Transcript -- An example of what is meant by the term 'hidden ugliness'.

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    The designer's role in sustainable development

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009 1:56


    Issues that a product designer should consider in order to make a product sustainable.

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    Transcript -- The designer's role in sustainable development

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009


    Transcript -- Issues that a product designer should consider in order to make a product sustainable.

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    Incorporating sustainability in product design

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009 2:14


    The future challenges of sustainability that designers face and how these could be resolved.

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    Transcript -- Incorporating sustainability in product design

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009


    Transcript -- The future challenges of sustainability that designers face and how these could be resolved.

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    The five principles in design project work

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009 0:58


    In support of how the five principles of sustainability can help in design project work.

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    Transcript -- The five principles in design project work

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2009


    Transcript -- In support of how the five principles of sustainability can help in design project work.

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