Cradle to cradle: An Exploration of circular Economy design(week 7)

Cradle to cradle: An Exploration of circular Economy design

Under the influence of the industrial Revolution, commodity production accelerated and urban population exploded. This standardized and intensive mode of production makes people’s living standard improve at the same time, the aesthetic concept and material structure of modern civilization is gradually reshaped by the design thought advocating materialism. Because its industrial infrastructure is linear in thinking, it focuses on the production of products and delivers them quickly and cheaply to consumers, without considering the interconnectedness of natural systems. This economically single development is not healthy and beneficial development, and does not take into account the overall quality of the whole system in all its aspects, that is, the diversity of the whole ecosystem, the interlinkages and impacts of the various aspects. (We should take a more dialectical view of whether economic prosperity will bring negative impacts on culture, resources, society, environment and quality of life). Such as at the end of the industrial system, the effective value of the product material didn’t also can be recycled, which is a linear, one-way “from cradle to grave” model, which is the design of the industrial revolution itself exists defects in principle, the design often doesn’t take into account diversity, local, sustainable, innovative.

mindfulness and care when introducing new CE:

This sudden desire for bike sharing has led to hundreds of bikes being abandoned see article.

Example:bike share

A worker rides a shared bicycle past piled-up shared bikes at a vacant lot in Xiamen, Fujian province, China December 13, 2017. Picture taken December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC16B19B1FA0