Circlular Design W
hether you’re a designer or any other type of member of society, we can all agree that we’d feel better using products that are not harmful to the planet, and better yet if it was beneficial to it. Circular Design proposes the idea that what we make can actually restore life after it is used, which is an ingenious concept given that so much of what we make and use today does not. Rather, most of the items we purchase leak toxic chemicals into the water, ground, and air, and end up as a piece of waste for hundreds to thousands of years. This unethical mind-set has become embedded in our manufacturing process and in how we consume and dispose of products. It would take a lot of effort to change the way things are in order to think more 14 sustainably, but we are stepping into a new generation of KERN designers that are paving the way for future designers to build upon.
