Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA)
The book presents life-cycle assessment as a methodology that should become standard design practice, cites it as evidence of design integrating ecological knowledge, and contrasts it with pre-disciplinary practices like Kente cloth weaving that lack such systematic assessment.
The book places life-cycle assessment among the standard-practice methodologies design's Procedures must adopt: 'Methodologies for life-cycle assessment, circular design such as implementing cradle-to-cradle protocols in product development, and designing for disassembly become standard practice, not afterthoughts' (Ch13 §128). It is also cited as evidence of design's structural coupling with ecological crisis, new knowledge such as 'life-cycle assessment, ecological literacy, material science for sustainability, systems thinking' being integrated into design's internal reorganization (Ch6 §058), and, by contrast, as the marker of what a pre-disciplinary practice like Kente cloth weaving lacks: it operates 'while not employing modern methodologies like digital prototyping or systemic life-cycle assessments' (Ch13 §132).
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Entries this one is tied to through the book.
Examples
- Juicero Press · discussed together in section 132
- Kente Cloth Weaving · discussed together in section 132
Methods
- Co-Design / Co-Creation · discussed together in section 058
- Cradle to Cradle (book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart) · discussed together in section 128
- Design for Disassembly · discussed together in section 058
- Participatory Design · discussed together in section 058
- Regeneration · discussed together in section 128
- Regenerative Design · discussed together in section 058
- Speculative Design · discussed together in section 058
- Sustainable Design · discussed together in section 058
In the Framework
- Procedures Component
- Sustainability
- Structural Coupling · concept
- Design's Frontier
- Proto-Design · element
In the book
- Chapter 6, section 058 · Structural Coupling: The Co-evolutionary Dance with the Environment
- Chapter 13, section 128 · Alignment with the Four Mottos
- Chapter 13, section 132 · Frontier Dimension
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Methods