Unit 10: C2 Process in context
Topic 10.1: Design for sustainability Questions
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Which of these belongs to the PEOPLE account of the triple bottom line?
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When two accounts genuinely conflict, which consideration comes first?
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A supermarket replaces plastic produce bags with paper ones. Evaluate this against all three accounts.
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Where does the SOCIAL principle most often fail in practice?
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Which of these is a sustainable design DECISION rather than a claim?
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How does the triple bottom line reveal a design opportunity?
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Which strategy has the largest effect on the total impact of a plastic garden chair?
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A company makes a plastic garden chair and an electric kettle. Explain how the sustainability strategy should differ between them.
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Where does the SOCIAL principle most often fail in practice?
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For an electric kettle used five times a day for ten years, where does most of the impact lie?
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Which of these is a sustainable design DECISION rather than a claim?
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A product is profitable and low-impact, but its manufacture removed most of a town's jobs. What does the triple bottom line say?
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How does the triple bottom line reveal a design opportunity?
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Which strategy has the largest effect on the total impact of a plastic garden chair?
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A company makes a plastic garden chair and an electric kettle. Explain how the sustainability strategy should differ between them.
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A manufacturer switches a garden chair to a recycled polymer grade and thins the wall so the chair now cracks after four years instead of twelve. Evaluate this decision.
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Analyse an aluminium folding chair against Datchefski's five principles, and state what would have to change.
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A chair is 40% lighter than its competitors but lasts half as long. How does it score on the EFFICIENT principle?
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What does the CYCLIC principle require of a product?
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Explain why a seat pad made from a bonded foam-and-fabric laminate breaks the cyclic principle.
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