A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design

Came across this through PSFK:1000 Words:A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design by Allan Chochinov. It is on a site about industrial design but,like all good design techniques,it can be applied to the creation of anything. Here are his main points:

* Hippocratic Before Socratic
* Stop Making Crap
* Systems Before Artifacts
* Teach Sustainability Early
* Screws Better Than Glues
* Design for Impermanence
* Balance Before Talents
* Metrics Before Magic
* Climates Before Primates
* Context Before Absolutely Everything

My favourite quotes:

“We think that we’re in the artifact business,but we’re not;we’re in the consequence business.”
“We have to start balancing our ability to be clever with our ability to be smart.”

Check it out:http://www.core77.com/reactor/04.07_chochinov.asp

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