Week 1 – Visuals, 25-02-08

As apart of Honours year design course, i am attending lectures which are presented by design academics, about design sustainability. 

It seems that due to way our society has worked other the last few decades, it has left us only to look at what we have done in terms of the damage made on the earth, and the resources that we have consumed. I remember a past lecture last year stated that something like 35% of the worlds population is consuming 60-80% of the worlds resources.

That really made me start thinking about what must be done in order to save our selves from the inevitable. Or is it that we should stop thinking about saving ourselves (being our own backsides) and start thinking globally. That’s how most of this has happened, through wealth a greed, and we still think only in terms of our selves. WHAT? we want and WHAT? we need, but this has driven us to the starvation that we are heading for.

The last lecture based its ideas around this topic of consummation and public knowledge of these issues presented by Ken Friedman from the US. From here on, you will see my visual thoughts from these lectures.