YEAR 10

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

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CONTENTS

Design Details in Everyday Life.

Impact of Design on Social, Environmental

and Economic Issues.

Sources of Energy.

Designers Role on Sustainability.

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 1. DESIGN DETAILS IN
EVERYDAY LIFE
Why is Design important? Why do we
have to do it? How can we do it? What
would happen if we don't do it?
At the beginning of the year 2020, I asked you to reflect on the little details that
made your everyday life easier: using your phone as alarm clocks, brushing your teeth
using a toothbrush, going to school using cars and going to your classrooms using
stairs. These are design details that are important because imagine living without it,
how difficult will it be to wake up, clean yourself or go to school everyday?

As a designer, you have to be able to think of not just solutions but problems as well.
Like I said, "if you can't see or find a problem, then that's a problem".

This Corona Virus outbreak is the perfect time to think about the problems found in
our society. Why is it hard to order food from home? Why are they offering free
delivery now? How can we make sure public places stay clean? What else can you do
while staying at home for more than 2 weeks? These are the questions/problems that
need creativity. And hopefully, by learning about Design, you are able to solve them.
This is the future you have to be prepared for.

RECAP:
Analyzing Google Office in Singapore.
Looking at an
existing
environment and
picking up what
makes that space
comfortable and
fun to use.
 2. IMPACT OF DESIGN ON
SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL
AND ECONOMIC ISSUES
We are looking at Design Drawbacks
and Design Benefits.
LAICOS

DESIGN DRAWBACKS: Small DESIGN BENEFITS: Big space, comfortable seat,

space to work around, slippery plenty of storage to put things, carpet floors so that
floor, too many things to carry. it is not slippery.
LATNEMNORIVNE

DESIGN DRAWBACKS: DESIGN BENEFITS: Modern

Unappealing design, easily design, easy to carry and has
breaks, hard to carry and bigger space for more rubbish.
not enough space for a lot of
rubbish.
CIMONOCE

DESIGN BENEFITS: Creating a new app DESIGN BENEFITS: Creating art

for Bruneians to order taxi online. This performances is not only fun but offers new
offers new jobs for people and easy to jobs for people: actors, make-up artists,
access using mobile phones for tourists costume designers and set designers. This
visiting Brunei. can also increase tourism in Brunei.

DRAWBACKS = DISADVANTAGES/KEBURUKKAN
BENEFITS = ADVANTAGES/KEBAIKKAN
 RECAP:
LETS LOOK AT THE OTHER EXAMPLES
YOU TOLD ME:

REAL-LIFE EXAMPLE:
THE PROBLEM:
There is an increase of homeless people in Los
Angeles, America. The price for housing is too
high and a lot of people could not get any jobs.
They usually live in tents with other homeless
people. This is a social problem because if these
people live like this for too long, their mental
health will be affected. This can also be an
environmental problem where a lot of rubbish is
made since they have no proper trash. There is
also no proper sanitation for them to go to the
toilet. If more and more people are homeless,
nobody can afford to buy food, cars or houses -
and this can also be an economic problem.

A group of University students came up with a

design project to help solve the homelessness
problem. They experimented with materials and
shapes to come up with different ideas of
sheltering people on the streets. This could
hopefully be more comfortable than living in
plastic tents, more weather-resistant, durable
and easy to move around. This shows how
creativity and design thinking can help solve
social, environmental and economical
problems.

https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-
work/homeless-studio-explores-how-architecture-can-
help-address-homelessness
 3. Sources of Energy
Understanding different ways we can
use energy to power our designs.

Good designers should know how to be environmentally responsible and

consider many things when they are going through the process of creating
new products. For example:

- Where are the materials from?

- How much energy is used during the manufacturing?
- Are there ways to reduce energy when delivering these products?
- How will this product be thrown away after the end of its use?

THE 6RS
Reduce your use of electricity, quantities of products and so on.
Example: Mobiles with fast-charging will use less electricity and they come in
smaller packaging to prevent waste.

Reuse packaging, materials and items a few times.

Example: Using fabric shopping bags and upcycle old items and make it into
a new one.

Recycle materials and put them in use in other applications.

Example: Recycling plastic bottles and making them into new ones.

Rethink the way you do things and change the way you think and work.
Example: How can we reduce the use of plastic packaging in canteen food?

Repair items rather than throwing them away and buying new ones. Design
products that are easily prepared.
Example: Tables that have legs that can be changed if one of them is broken.
This would prevent the user from throwing the whole table away.

Refuse to buy a product if you don’t need it.

 Words you
need to know:
Disassembly – A way for products to be taken apart
(using common tools and equipment) to make it
easier to replace and repair as well as when it is
disposed.

Planned Obsolescence – a way of designing products

that can break/fail/have problems after a period of
time.

“Cradle to Cradle” – a product is designed to be used

again and again.

“Cradle to Grave” – a product that is designed to

break after a few years.
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VOCABULARY CHECK:
MODULAR - Something that can be be
customized, upgraded, repaired and for
parts to be reused.
INTERCHANGEABLE - Something that
can be replaced and changed.

Pentatonic invents new materials using trash, and then uses these
materials to design beautiful and useful objects. From glassware made of
smartphone glass, to ‘felt’ made from plastic, and knitted fabric made of
upcycled fibers. The furniture range is modular and contains interchangeable
components, allowing customers to change the seat of a chair, for instance, or
convert chairs into tables.

Nigerian designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello has designed a flat-pack desk that can
store its own legs for easy transport. The table has legs that screw into the
desk for ease of disassembly, and fabric loops to hold the legs flat against the
surface during transport.
 Stationaries
holder that can
be taken apart
and put together
again like a pzzle.

EXAMPLE OF
PRODUCT
DISASSEMBLY