Connie Svabo Associate Professor Performance Design CBIT RUC
Connie Svabo, Associate Professor, Performance Design, CBIT, RUC Member of Designing Human Technologies ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS GREEN DESIGN STRATEGIES INSPIRED BY YURIKO SAITO
• “While green aesthetics regarding nature can help render seemingly unattractive objects aesthetically appreciable, due to their environmental values, green aesthetics regarding artifacts has an additional mission: to render initially attractive objects not so aesthetically positive if they are environmentally harmful. That is, green aesthetics must make it the case that, in Marcia Eaton’s words, “what is ecologically bad begins to be seen as aesthetically bad. ” (Saito 2007, 85).
Yuriko Saito Professor of Philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design Everyday aesthetics (2008) GREEN DESIGN STRATEGIES INSPIRED BY YURIKO SAITO
• Learn to dislike (or at least appreciate less) that which is environmentally harmful • Cultivate green aesthetics
Design Strategy “Coated Green” “Raw & unbleached” “Green Core” Characteristics Conventional made green – maintain current aesthetic taste – develop ecofriendly design according to prevalent taste Cult of nature – (anti- Green made popular )aesthetic cult of the develop green design natural vocabulary with recognizable / familiar cues & clues “Green Stream”? Ecological? Cultural + Ecological + Cultural - Examples Sustainability Ecological + Cultural +
• Learn to dislike (or at least appreciate less) that which is environmentally harmful • Cultivate green aesthetics – And do so in a manner which is ‘culturally sustainable’ – where green design is not too alien or unfamiliar
• • Minimalism Durability and longevity Fittingness Appropriateness and site-specificity Past-present contrast, Perceivability of natural processes Health Caring and sensitive attitude
Design Strategy “Coated Green” “Raw & unbleached” “Green Core” Characteristics Conventional made green – maintain current aesthetic taste – develop ecofriendly design according to prevalent taste Cult of nature – (anti- “Green Stream”? )aesthetic cult of the Green made popular natural develop green design vocabulary with recognizable / familiar cues & clues Ecological? Cultural + Ecological + Cultural - Examples Sustainability Ecological + Cultural +
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