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Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Sustainable Lighting Design: 5 Ways to Go Circular Through Design for Disassembly (DfD)
LightFair Blog: Improving sustainability in lighting design requires making small changes, applying them consistently, and designing products with the end in mind. This is called Design for Disassembly (DfD) and in this article we’ll outline five ways you can use DfD to build sustainability right into your products.
2 comments:
Sydney de Haan
said...
So I don’t know a whole lot about lighting but I do know a lot about sustainability. The main thing that I see keeping the lighting industry more sustainable is the ability to fix fixtures rather than discard and buy a new one. I know that this is something we do at CMU SoD with Tomas having piles of fixtures that need to be repaired. The difficult thing with this is that it takes time to repair all of these. Some things from the article that I hope to see soon are more universal fasteners. This would make replacing them a lot easier this would also save money and make it more sustainable during manufacturing because there would be fewer kinds of parts that need to be produced. Another thing I hope to see is when manufacturers update there products they sell options of just the new parts that would be compatible with the older fixtures.
I thought that this was a very interesting read. It seems that lighting design can go both ways in sustainability. Although the same lighting fixtures can be used for years and years, technology is also growing and I think it’s pretty important that theaters stay updated with the newest technology, especially schools where students are being taught about all the different fixtures. If students are only learning the oldest technology, they'll probably be struggling later on when they set out in the industry. It's important that we keep our environment in mind when developing these new technologies and deciding what things we want to keep and discard. Although it's important to update, I think that companies should also make sure that they're utilizing the lights that they had beforehand, and making sure to Keep them in Prime condition. Although the building that I learned about letting in in high school is only around 10 years old, a lot of belating fixtures are kind of outdated and the program is talking about bringing new lights in. I think that this would be cool as long as they make sure to utilize the old lights that they've had beforehand.
2 comments:
So I don’t know a whole lot about lighting but I do know a lot about sustainability. The main thing that I see keeping the lighting industry more sustainable is the ability to fix fixtures rather than discard and buy a new one. I know that this is something we do at CMU SoD with Tomas having piles of fixtures that need to be repaired. The difficult thing with this is that it takes time to repair all of these. Some things from the article that I hope to see soon are more universal fasteners. This would make replacing them a lot easier this would also save money and make it more sustainable during manufacturing because there would be fewer kinds of parts that need to be produced. Another thing I hope to see is when manufacturers update there products they sell options of just the new parts that would be compatible with the older fixtures.
I thought that this was a very interesting read. It seems that lighting design can go both ways in sustainability. Although the same lighting fixtures can be used for years and years, technology is also growing and I think it’s pretty important that theaters stay updated with the newest technology, especially schools where students are being taught about all the different fixtures. If students are only learning the oldest technology, they'll probably be struggling later on when they set out in the industry. It's important that we keep our environment in mind when developing these new technologies and deciding what things we want to keep and discard. Although it's important to update, I think that companies should also make sure that they're utilizing the lights that they had beforehand, and making sure to Keep them in Prime condition. Although the building that I learned about letting in in high school is only around 10 years old, a lot of belating fixtures are kind of outdated and the program is talking about bringing new lights in. I think that this would be cool as long as they make sure to utilize the old lights that they've had beforehand.
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