As second-year Design Informatics students, we were asked to mentor the first-year students on one of their design course. One of their project proposal was to “Reduce waste and pollution by rationalising the distribution of menstrual product resources, developing new materials and packages, and improving the recycling system. Simultaneously, recover the cost through recycling, and the menstrual tax can be reduced.” What surprised me was that their aim users are women students. I was kind of offended because personally I find the menstrual products with plastics being replaced by papers really hard to use and lowers the user experience a lot.  Also, the menstrual tax is such a biased regulation that I cannot accept designing under this rule. I see this design as in fact decreasing women’s user experience rather than providing much benefits.

I feel like more and people are actually doing harmful stuff in the name of protecting the environment.  Environmental activists throw soup over Van Gogh’s flowers just happened this October. News destroying property undermines the climate movement’s credibility rather than calling on people to stop polluting. I really don’t like them making damage in the name of environmental protection instead of really caring our planet.

Some thoughts about designing in an environmentally friendly way / Cindy Zhan / Environmental Design: Materials, Ecologies, Futures (2022-2023)[SEM1] by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0