Transcript of ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS GREEN DESIGN STRATEGIES INSPIRED BY YURIKO SAITO Connie Svabo, Associate...
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- ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS GREEN DESIGN STRATEGIES INSPIRED BY
YURIKO SAITO Connie Svabo, Associate Professor, Performance Design,
CBIT, RUC Member of Designing Human Technologies
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- While green aesthetics regarding nature can help render
seemingly unattractive objects aesthetically appreciable, due to
their environmental values, green aesthetics regarding artifacts
has an additional mission: to render initially attractive objects
not so aesthetically positive if they are environmentally harmful.
That is, green aesthetics must make it the case that, in Marcia
Eatons words, what is ecologically bad begins to be seen as
aesthetically bad. (Saito 2007, 85).
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- GREEN DESIGN STRATEGIES INSPIRED BY YURIKO SAITO Yuriko Saito
Professor of Philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design
Everyday aesthetics (2008)
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- Learn to dislike (or at least appreciate less) that which is
environmentally harmful Cultivate green aesthetics
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- Design StrategyCoated GreenRaw & unbleachedGreen Core
CharacteristicsConventional made green maintain current aesthetic
taste develop eco- friendly design according to prevalent taste
Cult of nature (anti-)aesthetic cult of the natural Green made
popular develop green design vocabulary with recognizable /
familiar cues & clues Green Stream? Examples
SustainabilityEcological? Cultural + Ecological + Cultural -
Ecological + Cultural +
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- Learn to dislike (or at least appreciate less) that which is
environmentally harmful Cultivate green aesthetics And do so in a
manner which is culturally sustainable where green design is not
too alien or unfamiliar
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- Minimalism Durability and longevity Fittingness Appropriateness
and site-specificity Past-present contrast, Perceivability of
natural processes Health Caring and sensitive attitude
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- Design StrategyCoated GreenRaw & unbleachedGreen Core
CharacteristicsConventional made green maintain current aesthetic
taste develop eco- friendly design according to prevalent taste
Cult of nature (anti-)aesthetic cult of the natural Green Stream?
Green made popular develop green design vocabulary with
recognizable / familiar cues & clues Examples
SustainabilityEcological? Cultural + Ecological + Cultural -
Ecological + Cultural +