Climate Crisis

Greenhouse Effect

Melting Arctic Sea and glaciers

Human Activity

- Burning fossil fuels for energy
- Intense farming and agriculture to produce meat and crops
- Deforestation

Human activity causes an accumulation of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Methane (CH4), which traps the earth's warmth and result in a rising global temperature.

The rising temperatures result in the melting of glaciers and the Arctic Sea causing a rise of the sea level.

Causes

A solution

Circular Economy

Circular Design

Circular Economy is an economic system that is aiming to eliminate waste and is more sustainable than the opposite linear economic system.

Traditional manufacturing is wasteful, because it focuses exclusively on the end user. The circular economy mindset looks much wider, to consider everyone who extracts, builds, uses, and disposes of things. So in order to achieve a circular economy we need to rethink our ways of designing.

Some important designer choices

Material choice
Including inner loops
Ownership vs Access
Modularity
Afterlife

Content

Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi)

Circular Design examples

Rotterzwam

Fruitleather Rotterdam

BrouwBrood

BuurtBuik

Masks - Stirling Davenport

Stirling Davenport's short story "Masks" is set in a futuristic Beijing where air pollution has created a daily challenge. However, a young climatologist and her professor are offered a proposition that might give hope to future generations.

The Office of Climate Facts
- Mitch Sullivan

Mitch Sullivan's short story is a 24h new cycle and weather reporting of an "hurricane".

The Wave - Liam O'Faherty

A two hundred foot high cliff has developed a cavern at its base from “battling” for thousands of years with the incoming waves. Waves continue to crash in, and high tide is approaching.
This story has no human or animal characters. The “characters” are the cliff and the waves.

The Lamp at Noon - Sinclair Ross

Ellen lights the lamp at noon; the dust storm is in its third day. Her husband Paul works the land but it’s unproductive. Ellen feels oppressed by the environment and their poverty, and she wants Paul to go work for her parents. Paul is confident things will turn around, and he’s willing to wait.

Hybrid/Urgent Publication

Digital

Physical

Design choices

Eco-friendly web host
Simpler design (e.g. no animations/movement)
Web to Print for the physical publication
Using a dark theme to reduce light (and energy) emission from user

How can I design a most environmental friendly publication?

Design choices

RISOGRAPH booklets

Using recycled paper
Using soy-based ink
Efficiently utilizing the space on the paper
Print on pre-order
Your choice what you want to print

BOOK

Using recycled paper
Using soy-based ink or biodegradable
Using an ink saving font
Efficiently utilizing the space on the paper
Print on demand

Goal: sketching a world when we won't do anything against the climate crisis

Goal: via interviews gaining information about possible circular designer choices

Tips how to have a circular mindset

Goal: Growing database to gain knowledge about circular designing