Circular Economy: Transition From Concept to Practice This week, we are studying the circular economy. In the lecture, we focused on the relationship between design, society, and the environment and discussed the interactions between production and consumption, labor, resources, and ecological impacts. The lecture mentioned social and environmental justice movements, such as Standing Rock […]
From Waste to Regeneration: How is the Cradle to Cradle concept reshaping interior design We have learnt about current environmental challenges, their causes, and pondered on ourselves over the last few weeks.Not just for me, but with the global increase in environmental awareness, designers in every field must reconsider their design techniques and utilization […]
Week3 From ‘Conspirators’ of The Environmental Crisis to ‘Agents’ of Sustainable Change–Yichen Jiang
From ‘Conspirators’ of The Environmental Crisis to ‘Agents’ of Sustainable Change Last week’s study focused on the negative conditions in which we exist, raising awareness of environmental issues. And I believe that research this week is helping us to focus on the relationship between these concerns and ourselves as designers. Here, I would like to […]
Designing for a Sustainable Future: Exploring the Intersection of Environment, Experience, and Innovation We started our formal study this week. Let’s start with the first theme in this course: Experience and the Environment. In the lecture, the lecturer took this theme as an in-depth discussion on the relationship between design, environment and human experience. The […]
Me, Interior Design and Environmental Design Me (self-introduction): This is my blog for the first week! My name is Jiang Yichen. I’m from China. My major is interior design, and this is my third year in the University of Edinburgh. At once, in high school, I realized that “space” was a concept that permeated all […]