Past Issues

Design For Sustainability
December 2020

Features

• Design for a sustainable world
• Responsible, but not hopeless: Design education centered around sustainability
• “Of All Time”: The lifecycle of OAT Shoes – Europe’s first biodegradable shoe
• Sustainability calls everything into question

Opinion

• Six Misunderstood Terms in Sustainable Design
• The Cloud Isn’t Inherently More Sustainable: Manage The Environmental Impact Of Being Virtual

Success Stories

• Ikea to buy back used furniture in recycling push
• “Operational progress is what moves the needle” towards zero-carbon design says Nike’s head of sustainability
• Airport Seating System BLINK: WINNER Sustainable Design Award category of Dezeen
• Kerf Case: Sustainable Design

Watch this

• The Sustainable City of the Future: Copenhagen, Denmark
• Little Green Bags: True Business Sustainability
• Apple’s promise to be carbon neutral by 2030 

Features

• Who Wants to be a B Corp?
• Teaching a different kind of responsible design
• Design: An Instrument of Inclusion or Exclusion?

Opinion

• The last mile is a human mile
• The Power of Designing for Social Impact
• Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
• Lessons In Design And Scale For Social Impact Organizations

Resources

• Making life better by design
• How to Design for social impact
• Design thinking for social innovation
• Design and Social Impact

Features

• Bringing the Circular Economy to Design Fairs
• Adding New Value to Used Chopsticks

Success Stories

• RePack is returnable delivery packaging designed to be reused 40 times
• TerraCycle® is a social enterprise on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste
• The city of Amsterdam is aiming towards 50% circularity by 2025 and 100% circular by 2050
• HY William Chan shares how refugees can be empowered to transform their environments through the circular economy

Opinion

• Two Environmental Buzzwords, Same Meaning?
  

Resources

• Unschool offers multiple workshops and courses on the subject
• The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO

Design with smart materials: make, break, reuse, recycle
March 2020

Features

• Tomorrow Machine: zero waste food packaging
• Globe Hope: a second life for industrial materials

Success Stories

• This fabric infused with live bacteria is designed to reduce body odours and improve immunity
• BioScales – a biodegradable bioplastic that sucks carbon from the air
• Who needs best-by labels when your package can tell you when food is going bad
• Lettuce Eat is an award-winning series of biodegradable plates made from lettuce waste
• Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute are developing a range of eco-friendly biodegradable plastics that require less energy to make
• This fully bio-based BioFoam made of vegetable materials is the first CO2 neutral foam in the world

Designing for Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG12)
June 2019

Features

• PepsiCo’s vision to build a world where plastics need never become waste
• EU policy makers are taking steps to improve product design
• Food waste as an alternative to plastic cutlery
• Providing a sustainable alternative to Bangladeshi farmers through design

Success Stories

• IIT Hyderabad uses recycled material to reduce virgin asphalt for roads
• Planet First – Samsung’s green initiative
• 3D-printed snacks made out of food waste
• Adidas Futurecraft.Loop, the first shoe made to be remade
• Fairphone, the world’s first ethical, modular smartphone
• Seaweed drinks capsules as an alternative to plastic bottles

Better Cities by Design
January 2019

Features

• Tanya Müller “Cities have to design public spaces for people”
  

Success Stories

• Copenhagen: Creating the World’s First Carbon Neutral Capital
  
• São Paulo: building better cities
• Four smart local design ideas leading the way to make Australia’s cities more amenable places to live
• Zenata Eco-City, Africa’s first green city