rethinking design - Spatial Design@Massey

Sinead
Satherley
fig. 14
Reestore, a U.K. based design firm, takes miscellaneous discarded items and up-cycles them into
unique pieces of furniture, like the airplane wing turned office desk, Deborah (pictured). Their furniture
is partly made from new material, but the idea is that they can be recycled in turn.
Rethinking design:
An example of a device that unnecessarily
uses non-renewable energy for an action that
simply does not need electricity: the Suima
electric cradle, which rocks babies to sleep in
the pace of the mumʼs heartbeat. Most people
will think this is ridiculous and unnecessary,
which leads back to my point that using
appropriate technology is second nature to us
and simple ways of life that have been around
for hundreds of years really are the best way
to do things in order to maintain the
environment. Common sense- does an
exercise or action need electricity or can
kinetic energy in the form of human
engagement do the job
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