Duty to people and planet
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What three duties does a designer hold?
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To the client who pays, to the community that lives with the product, and to the environment that supplies and absorbs it. Almost every decision reaches all three.
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Why judge an impact over the whole life?
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Because a per-unit improvement can be an overall loss. A bottle using 18% less plastic but replaced twice as often uses more material across a year.
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How does an assembly decision become an environmental decision?
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Welding an earcup shut is chosen for cost and thinness, and it decides that any fault scraps the whole product. Most environmental damage is a side effect of a decision about something else.
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What does responsibility look like as a process?
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Four questions asked before a decision is fixed: who else lives with this, for how long, what would change it, and can I say why.
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