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Beyond Child's Play - Sustainable Product Design in the Global Doll-making Industry (Hardcover)
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Beyond Child's Play - Sustainable Product Design in the Global Doll-making Industry (Hardcover)
Series: Work, Health and Environment Series
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Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond
'green' to consider the work environment, community impacts,
consumer health, and economic viability, as well as environmental
attributes. "Beyond Child's Play" explores the concept of
sustainable product design in the context of the global doll-making
industry. To initiate this research, the author reviewed eco design
parameters and developed criteria for sustainable product design in
the doll-making industry. Using this framework, she conducted three
case studies of do I making: the American Girl doll produced in
China, the Kathe Kruse doll produced in Germany and the Q'ewar
Project doll produced in Peru. Themes emerged from this research
that have relevance beyond the doll-making industry: the value of
making a product with care; designing work for human dignity;
intention and vision for sustainability; the implications of
materials choices; and, transparency and sustainability.
Sustainable product design calls for fundamentally new thinking. By
connecting the term 'sustainable' to 'product', we raise
expectations for a radically different approach to design,
production, and consumption. This framework integrates the eco
design principles of detoxification and dematerialization with the
principle of 'humanization', to ensure that the work environment
where the product is made is safe and healthy and that local
communities benefit from production. This approach places increased
responsibility on the industrial designer and decision-makers
throughout the supply chain, including governments, corporations,
and citizens. Sustainable product design can be implemented
effectively only when systems are in place that support sustainable
production and consumption.
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