In this li little digital library you can see what books we suggest to build your personal knowledge about waste, eco-design and right to repair.
Basic theories you should know if you want to tackle waste topic in your practice
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
In their 2002, architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart presented an integration of design and science that provides enduring benefits for society from safe materials, water and energy in circular economies and eliminates the concept of waste.
Design di prodotto per la sostenibilità ambientale: Progettare per il ciclo di vita dei prodotti
Carlo Vezzoli
La produzione e il consumo di beni e servizi hanno superato la capacità della biosfera e della geosfera di assorbire senza danni irreversibili le trasformazioni che questo sistema determina. La consapevolezza del problema ambientale ha seguito un percorso da valle a monte: dalla cura dell'inquinamento, all'intervento sui processi produttivi che lo generano, alla riprogettazione dei prodotti e/o servizi per giungere alla discussione e al riorientamento dei comportamenti sociali. Questo percorso ci racconta che è necessario intervenire in termini progettuali e che la responsabilità e il ruolo del design sono cresciuti negli anni, richiedendo scenari di riferimento, conoscenza e strumenti nuovi.
Is a movement which fight to make our products more accessible and repairable.
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America
Giles Slade
Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
People who dedicate a part of their life traveling and telling stories about our stuff and waste.
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
Adam Minter
Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country―or even halfway across the world―to people and places who find value in what we leave behind.
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
Adam Minter
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment.
IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN
Aart Van Bezooyen, Paula Rachè
The book "It's Not Easy Being Green: Two Designers Exploring Sustainability Worldwide" is a publication by Paula Raché and art van Bezooijen that brings together six months of making new friends, photographing local impressions and collecting materials. Together with almost 60 designers, entrepreneurs and change-makers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan they are sharing personal experiences, project examples and local culture to inspire and enable a more sustainable future.