World Changing Response 5 Pete

World Changing Response #5

Producer Responsibility pg. 119

Producer Responsibility was an interesting article for me as a design student, especially designing for disassembly and design for repair. It’s challenging to think about putting together as much as taking apart and I found it interesting that designs that are easy to take apart, are the easiest to put together. Things that dissemble easily are designed for two purposes, which accounts not only for the time an object spends occupying our lives but also for the time it takes to remove that object and return it to a little pile of metal and plastics, full of potential and waiting for the next step in its life.

Designing for repair was interesting to me as both a creative person who loves to work with his hands and as a bicycle mechanic. It actually reminds me of the repair manifesto, repairing before discarding. Everything is always going to break at some point in its life, you have to not only design to make this happen as little as possible, but so that when it does eventually happen, design to make parts repairable so that the object is not lost by one piece failing.