Sustainable Materials with Both Eyes Open
About this book
Sustainable Materials with Both Eyes Open is a reference by Julian Allwood and Jonathan Cullen for industrial design students seeking to understand material use and sustainability in manufacturing. Published by UIT Cambridge in 2012, this 408-page English-language book is suited to readers who want to examine how resource choices and production systems shape the environmental consequences of products. It frames sustainability as a practical design concern involving not just the material named in a specification, but how much is used and what happens across manufacture and use.
Read more
For product design students, this perspective encourages questions about demand, efficiency, lifetime and the trade-offs behind selecting or reducing materials. It can inform early decisions about a product’s construction, manufacturing route and resource requirements, while helping students distinguish a well-intentioned material choice from a broader assessment of impact. The book is valuable in industrial design because designers influence objects and systems through decisions made before production begins. It supports critical discussion of how to meet needs while using resources more carefully, and it can sit alongside material samples, life-cycle research and studio proposals. As a university reading list reference, it gives students a basis for evidence-minded project work. Readers can use its ideas to frame sustainability questions, compare options and justify practical design choices with greater clarity.
Acceso may receive a commission from purchases made via links on this page.
