Essays about: "sustainability and designer"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the words sustainability and designer.

  1. 1. Follow the Witch - The interior designer as a future urban planner for the design between existing walls

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Julia Niklasson; [2023]
    Keywords : MFA Programme in Design; HDK-Valand;

    Abstract : What if most of our future buildings are already built? To build new buildings by claiming new resources and more land, these are habits we need to change if we are serious about shifting to a sustainable way of living. We need to deal with what has already been built. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Hive : The Missing Actor Between the Interior Designer and the Office Furniture Supplier

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

    Author : Luciana Bohnert; Shiyi Jin; [2023]
    Keywords : Office furniture; interior design; circular economy; sustainability; service design.;

    Abstract : This paper presents a project done within the field of office interior design, which aims to create an efficient set of services that caters to the needs of the interior designer while procuring and implementing used furniture in their projects. The project was conducted in collaboration with Plym Projekt AB, an interior design company who introduced the thesis topic, and Easy Steps, sustainability-focused consultancy company. READ MORE

  4. 3. BUILDING RELATIONS WITH NATURE BY DESIGN METHODS

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Matt Christoph; [2022-06-03]
    Keywords : Kinship; More-than-human; Posthumanism; Anthropocene; Design Camp; Design Workshop; Design toolkit; Participatory Design; Embedded design; Sustainability;

    Abstract : Culture, art, and design can help us as a society and for each earthling to reflect on the ambivalent relationship between nature and humans in the Anthropocene by raising the critical question of how we can build more sustainable relations with nature through design. Respectively, this project documentation informs about my graduation project within the MFA embedded design program at HDK-Valand, focusing on design, organization, and sustainability. READ MORE

  5. 4. Applying persuasive design to increase engagement in sustainability-related projects : A case study of a climate change adaptation project’s website

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för informatik (IK)

    Author : Arian Zamanian; Huihong Yang; [2022]
    Keywords : Persuasive design; Sustainability; Theory of Planned Behavior; Fogg Behavior Model; User engagement; Persuasive design; Hållbarhet; Teorin för Planerat Beteende; Foggs Beteende Modell; Användarengagemang;

    Abstract : A website’s foundation should be its usability and its user engagement. Designers can go further and persuade users. The design practice of persuasive design revolves around affecting people indirectly by changing attitudes or behaviors through product features or service characteristics. READ MORE

  6. 5. Sustainable concrete bridges : An investigation of possible measures to reduce the climate impact

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Byggkonstruktion och brand

    Author : Daniel Hugh; [2022]
    Keywords : Bridges; CO2; emission; cement; reinforcement; SCM; sustainability.;

    Abstract : The need of building new bridges is always existing in relation with the increase of infrastructureand transport needs. Bridge constructions have traditionally been associated with highconsumption of resources and large greenhouse gas emissions. READ MORE