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Society is immersed in “convenience culture.” As designers and consumers, we are drawn to attractive and easy-to-use products. Corporations assure us that their products will make our lives better. We purchase, use, and dispose of products after a few years, months, days, and minutes. This cycle of production and consumption is in constant rotation, and has moved us from reusable to obsolete and disposable.
Disposability is ingrained and pervasive. The practice of designing for disposability has become the dominant approach to economic production, where reusable products are downgraded into disposable single-use items of purchase. Design is both manipulative and liberating. It has the potential to be so many good things, but what dominates our universe of consumption is disposability. Could design re-imagine obsolete and disposable items and shift our addiction of being wasteful?
Disposability is ingrained and pervasive. The practice of designing for disposability has become the dominant approach to economic production, where reusable products are downgraded into disposable single-use items of purchase. Design is both manipulative and liberating. It has the potential to be so many good things, but what dominates our universe of consumption is disposability. Could design re-imagine obsolete and disposable items and shift our addiction of being wasteful?
