Big Ideas

Big Ideas - What is good design?

Below are some important ideas that will help inform our design. We will be talking and learning about them throughout the class.

Biomimicry: Nature as Designer (asknature.org)

Whole Systems Thinking

Beauty, form and function (What does beauty/form signify?)

Parsimony, simplicity, material and energy use, efficiency
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Life cycle design; Cradle to Cradle;

Natural Capital; externalities (When was trash invented?)

Biomimicry Example