The Designer's Atlas - Introduction

Question 1

Define Sustainable Development

Answer 1

Pg 7: “Development that cultivates environmental and social conditions that will support human well-being indefinitely.”

Question 2

What are the primary set of environmental conditions that support human well-being?

Answer 2

Products and services that ecosystems provide; e.g. breathable air, absorption of wastes

Question 3

What are the social conditions that support human well-being?

Answer 3

Culture and economics

Question 4

What is culture?

Answer 4

All of our socially transmitted behaviours, including systems of belief and art forms.

Question 5

What is economics?

Answer 5

A subset of culture, as a system for managing and developing our resources, whatever their form.

Question 6

What are broader cultural conditions that support well-being over the long term?

Answer 6

Pg 8: Values and beliefs.

Question 7

What is Purity?

Answer 7

Pg 17: How close the idea/implementation is to a perfect/complete solution. Purist / incrementalism