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with a ‘cradle-to-cradle’ philosophy not a wasteful ‘cradle-to-grave’. For example, modern day manufacturers of clothing may create waste from the cotton off-cuts and scraps which are thrown away. Howies Clothing, inWales, decided to do something new with it. They take all the cotton waste and recycle it, mulching it into something that resembles cotton wool, ready for respinning into a new recycled cotton yarn. The result is a unique cotton mix which is great for jumpers! It’s a good example of thinking about what you want to design or create, and looking at a sustainable way to achieve it. “We believe in making higher


quality, lower impact clothes for our sports and day-to-day lives,” saysAde Gunn, commercial director of Howies Clothing.


4 Think about how the product is used. Is it to be consumed? Is it


to be owned? If so, then try to design it instead as part of a ‘service’. Ownership models can drive consumption which deplete resources. Students must be able to create


true products of worth for their studies and be able to transfer these skills to their working lives.Atrue product of worth will be one that solves a design need, while meeting other issues, including sustainability and recycling. The designers who do this well will be the designers for the future.


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AUTODESK RELAUNCHES ITS FREE RESOURCE –SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOP– ON THEWEB


AuTodesk, whose software is used by architects, designers, planners, engineers, teachers, and students the world over, has just relaunched its suite of sustainability videos. These free resources, entitled


Autodesk Sustainability Workshop, compromises 15 four-minute videos covering sustainability in design, materials and production, giving the basic fundamentals, particularly when it comes to energy and materials. This introductory set is followed by a deeper level of sustainability videos for mechanical design and building science. Audodesk, whose headquarters


are in California and with 100-plus offices across the globe, has also produced four videos on net zero buildings. To produce Autodesk


in English and Chinese and there are plans for other language editions. Autodesk Sustainability


Workshop is a finalist in the bi-annual InDEx awards with winners and runners-up being announced in Copenhagen this month. The top five prizes are each worth 100,000 euros. To download these free


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Autodesk relaunches its SustainabilityWorkshop – a programme of videos on sustainability with emphasis on energy and materials. This is a free resource to education.


SustainabilityWorkshop, Autodesk talked college heads and students in such places as Brunel, on what was needed. Dawn Danby, senior


sustainability design programme manager, told Technology in Education: “Currently, there is


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very little on sustainability in the education and training of architects and engineers and there is, in the main, insufficient on the mathematics behind energy uses/conservation in buildings.” Currently, there are videos


sustainability resources visit http://sustainabilityworkshop. autodesk.com In addition to these free


sustainability educational resources, there is a set of free videos entitled Digital STEM which focuses on STEMand art subject basics, from www.autodesk.com/digitalsteam


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