DES 127A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Speed Bump, Ecological Footprint, Universal Design
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Des 127a fall 2013 midterm #1 study guide. Study the basic concepts document and focus on the concepts that have been presented in class or in readings. Read and take notes on the introduction and chapters 1 and 2, cradle to cradle for the midterm. A typical example or pattern (paradigm of hunter gatherer cultures: gaia: nature is sacred, female, nurturing) Rise in temperature, rise in sea level, thermohaline circulation (global ocean conveyor) Janis birkeland: the current patterns of design: are wasteful of non-renewable resources, create toxic materials and by products, require excessive energy for production, harm biodiversity at the source of extraction, often involve energy-intensive long-distance transport. The current paradigm and the paradigm of the future. Dumb design"s characteristics: it makes all the processes and systems invisible to us (water, energy, waste, it has standardized solutions that fail to consider the special.
