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  • These thrown-away items

    I decided to furnish the restaurant [Tetchan] with the kinds of discarded items one wouldn't normally use in interior design, from recycled LAN cables to acrylic by-products.

    When using discarded objects in interior design, it gives even brand-new places the feeling that they have always been there. I think this is due to the inherent history of these thrown-away items, which lives on inside of them.

    Kengo Kuma, My Life as an Architect in Tokyo
    • recycling
    • waste
  • Ending is better than mending

    “We always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better…”

    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    • novelty
    • repair
    • trash
    • waste
    • melancholy
    • ending
  • Less, but better

    There must be millions less of things, less words, less gestures, less of everything. But every word and every gesture will become more valuable. If we can put it all into perspective we will need less things as a result.

    Sophie Lovell & Dieter Rams, Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
    1. ​​Omit needless words​​
    2. ​​To be truly simple​​
    • making
    • restraint
    • production
    • waste
    • minimalism
  • Flying a kiwi

    Flying a kiwi fruit from New Zealand to New York produces four times the weight of the kiwi in greenhouse gases; moving a head of lettuce to here from California requires ten times the calories the lettuce yields to the eater.

    Michael Sorkin, 20 Minutes in Manhattan
    • waste
  • The mirror-image economy

    When we enter the world of refuse and waste, we cross over into a mirror-image economy. In the "normal" world, we pay to acquire things; on the other side of the looking glass, we pay to get rid of them. Junk isn't merely worthless; it has negative value.

    A chemical engineer once told me about a recent improvement in a manufacturing process; by fine-tuning a chemical synthesis he had increased the yield of a certain commodity from 98 percent to 99 percent. I congratulated him, but I couldn't help remarking that this seemed like a rather paltry improvement. "Ah, you miss the important point," he said. "The amount of waste goes from 2 percent down to 1 percent. It's cut in half. We save tremendously on disposal costs."

    Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape
    • waste
    • recycling
    • trash
    • efficiency
    • economics
  • Wasting light

    Foo Fighters - Wasting Light album cover

    Yamamoto Sanehiko, president of the Kaizo publishing house, told me of something that happened when he escorted Dr. Einstein on a trip to Kyoto. As the train neared Ishiyama, Einstein looked out the window and remarked, "Now that is terribly wasteful." When asked what he meant, Einstein pointed to an electric lamp burning in broad daylight.

    And the truth of the matter is that Japan wastes more electric light than any Western country except America.

    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki & Thomas J. Harper, In Praise of Shadows
    1. ​​Poured​​
    • light
    • waste

    We don't often think about light itself as a resource that can be wasted. When we turn off the lights as we leave the house, we don't think of it as conserving light, but rather conserving energy. Could we learn to be more at home in darkness? Maybe Dave Grohl knows.

  • A timeless quality

    Of all Rams’s products, the 606 Universal Shelving System is perhaps his most successful in fulfilling his own principles of good design. It is still in production today, some fifty years after its conception. The system is distinctive yet unobtrusive, and when the shelves and cabinets are filled, its slim profile allows it to fade quietly into the background.

    Its ‘plainness’ lends it a timeless quality that has transcended the vagaries of fashion like no other of Rams’s designs. It was conceived in such a way as to optimize its function as simply and in as many different situations as possible, while still permitting upgrades and alterations without falling into obsolescence: all later adaptations and additions could still be integrated into the original structure and sizes.

    "Fashion objects are not capable of being long-lived," said Rams in 2007. "We simply cannot afford this throw-away mentality anymore. Good design has to have built-in longevity. I believe that the secret of the longevity of my furniture lies in its simplicity and restraint. Furniture should not dominate, it should be quiet, pleasant, understandable and durable."

    Sophie Lovell & Dieter Rams, Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
    • waste
    • fashion
  • Consumption

    The proponents of technology in the 1840s were very enthusiastic about replacing workers with machines. But somehow I find no indication that they realized that while production could be carried out with few workers and still run to high outputs, buyers would be needed for those outputs. The realization that though the need for workers decreased, the need for purchasers could increase, did not seem to be part of the discourse on the machinery question. Since then, however, technology and its promoters have had to create a social institution – the consumer – in order to deal with the increasingly tricky problem that machines can produce but it is usually people who consume.

    Ursula M. Franklin, The Real World of Technology
    • consumption
    • waste
    • society
  • The Factory Photographs

    A Book by David Lynch
    www.goodreads.com
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    I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.

    1. ​​Electrical pylon near Gary, Indiana​​
    2. ​​Grid substation​​
    3. ​​Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape​​
    • industry
    • infrastructure
    • photography
    • waste
  • Bowellism

    A Definition
    en.wikipedia.org
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    Lloyd’s Building, London.

    Bowellism is a modern architectural style heavily associated with Richard Rogers. The premise is that the services for the building, such as ducts, sewage pipes and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior.

    • architecture
    • infrastructure
    • waste
  • Muda, Muri, Mura

    An Article
    mag.toyota.co.uk

    Eliminating waste is the key to efficiency – in the Toyota Production System, this is termed as:

    Muda (waste),
    Muri (overburden),
    and Mura (irregularity).

    • production
    • waste
    • management
    • efficiency
  • Working with Brian Eno on design principles for streets

    An Article by Dan Hill & Brian Eno
    medium.com
    • Think like a gardener, not an architect: design beginnings, not endings
    • Unfinished = fertile
    • Artists are to cities what worms are to soil.
    • A city’s waste should be on public display.
    • Make places that are easy for people to change and adapt (wood and plaster, as opposed to steel and concrete.)
    • Places which accommodate the very young and the very old are loved by everybody else too.
    • Low rent = high life
    • Make places for people to look at each other, to show off to each other.
    • Shared public space is the crucible of community.
    • A really smart city is the one that harnesses the intelligence and creativity of its inhabitants.
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See also:
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  2. recycling
  3. trash
  4. efficiency
  5. infrastructure
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  10. light
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  2. Dieter Rams
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  11. Kengo Kuma
  12. David Lynch