Designing products for your future
In this lesson, we will learn how, as designers, we can create products which protect our future. We will look at how designers are creating new materials from traditional waste.
Designing products for your future
In this lesson, we will learn how, as designers, we can create products which protect our future. We will look at how designers are creating new materials from traditional waste.
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Key learning points
- how products can be developed considering the concept of 'cradle to grave'
- the concept of circular economy approaches in relation to product development and consumption
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5 Questions
Q1.
A life cycle analysis is ...
... an analysis of how a material is grown.
... an analysis of the properties of materials.
... the colours used in a design.
Q2.
True or false, where a material comes from is called the source.
False
Q3.
Choose two answers, extensive farming for cotton can cause ...
... different colours of cotton to be grown.
... really tall cotton plants.
Q4.
True or false, from growing to final product, a cotton t-shirt uses 20,000 litres of water.
False
Q5.
The creation of high fashion, low quality garments is called ...
... end of life products.
... manufacture.
... properties of materials.
5 Questions
Q1.
The ability for a material to resist being broken when pulled is called ...
... breaking strength.
... compressive strength.
... torsional strength.
Q2.
Which plastics are some of the easiest to recycle?
Acrylic and Oak.
Cotton and HDPE.
Cotton and PET.
Q3.
True or false, when synthetic fibres are recycled they retain their original strength?
False
Q4.
What does the phrase 'cradle to grave' mean?
This describes how the material is manufactured.
This means the fabric can be recycled.
This only refers to the journey of natural materials.
Q5.
True or false, last year 5 billion plastic bottles were sent to landfill.
False