“As designers, we have a great responsibility.” – Dieter Rams (former principal designer with Braun)

Students who design have an obligation to consider all the resources that they use to produce a product. As consumers they need to make ethical choices on what products to purchase in order to best support the environment and society. 

In some parts of the world ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. A lack of resources encourages the use of everything and nothing is wasted. In our affluent, Western society we tend to exploit resources and waste everything and our wealth and complacent attitudes hinder our own ability to think outside the square, because we don’t have to.

Rethink-Recycle-Reward is a unit of study where the creative and innovative use of existing materials or products is paramount. We consider how existing materials might be put to new uses. As a result, students might find hidden beauty in the mundane, identify utility where it is not intended and learn how to tame the industrial for the domestic while still keeping one’s eyes wide open to create a unique product.

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Mr Paul Woods
Design and Technology Teacher