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Symbiotic Design: Building Resilience & Liberating Economies Through Product Design; Beyond the Circular Economy

Trauth, Braden W
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0739-2233
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491558533324546

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2017, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
This paper advances new proposals to address the Planned & Perceived Obsolescence conundrum. Coming from a Net Energy Economy perspective and founded in natures resilience and regeneration principles it integrates these perspectives into the Product Design process. The goal is to build societies that move beyond heavy dependence on fossil fuel and finite materials throughput to maintain economic stability into a culture that enjoys the relative conveniences of western living without the ecological impacts. Proposed in these strategies are ways to build ecological resilience and economic liberation into our culture provided by proper investment of energy and resources into Products, Buildings, Businesses and Agriculture to provide for our basic needs freeing us from constant insecurities. It offers a simple step by step design guide with foundational strategies at each step in the lifespan of the product. It addresses issues like appropriate strategies for different clients, durable vs. consumable, finite vs. renewable, sustainable qualities of products, proper investment to create long lasting products, scaled resilience and global leverage of technology for the greatest impact with least ecological footprint. These are foundational strategies to leverage the greatest ecological change for the least amount of effort. It was tested with 4th year ID students and results are included.
Dale Murray, M.A. (Committee Chair)
Brigid O'Kane, MFA (Committee Member)
144 p.
Design
Sustainable Design; Symbiotic Design; Permaculture; Living Buildings; Gross National Happiness; Steady State Economy

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  • Trauth, B. W. (2017). Symbiotic Design: Building Resilience & Liberating Economies Through Product Design; Beyond the Circular Economy [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491558533324546

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Trauth, Braden. Symbiotic Design: Building Resilience & Liberating Economies Through Product Design; Beyond the Circular Economy. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491558533324546.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Trauth, Braden. "Symbiotic Design: Building Resilience & Liberating Economies Through Product Design; Beyond the Circular Economy." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491558533324546

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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