Second Nature, a Practice-Led Design Investigation Into Consumerism Responding to Sustainable Home Habits

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aut.relation.endpage249
aut.relation.issue1
aut.relation.journalDAT Journal
aut.relation.startpage213
aut.relation.volume8
dc.contributor.authorChambers, Jade
dc.contributor.authorMortensen Steagall, Marcos
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-12T22:44:03Z
dc.date.available2023-04-12T22:44:03Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-15
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses a graphic design project about unsustainable habits around the home and their effects on climate change. The article reflects on practice-led design research, asking: How can graphic design be used to provoke young adults to make positive changes towards their unsustainable consumer habits in their homes? The design project entitled: Second Nature - is an awareness campaign that combines the researcher’s passion for environmental sustainability and creative practice as a way of expression through graphic design conventions. The project responded to the research question with a communication campaign, consisting of a series of design artefacts, including a poster series, a zine set, social media presence and a website. The artefacts allow the audience to consider the negative impact their habits cause, providing ways to make small changes towards a more sustainable lifestyle. In conducting the study, reflective and heuristic enquiry was utilised as an approach to problem-solving. In the enquiry, the project employed methods such as contextual review of knowledge, mind mapping, sketching and mock-ups to ideate, reflect and test. The article adopts a commentary on practice and evidences the design decisions to the context, including how the artefacts engage with the audience. The research contributes to the current discourses about climate change in a world dominated by consumerism, proposing and unpacking how an awareness campaign can be used as a tool to combat the depletion of our greater home, earth.
dc.identifier.citationDAT Journal, ISSN: 2526-1789 (Print); 2526-1789 (Online), Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, 8(1), 213-249. doi: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.695
dc.identifier.doi10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.695
dc.identifier.issn2526-1789
dc.identifier.issn2526-1789
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/16077
dc.publisherUniversidade Anhembi Morumbi
dc.relation.urihttps://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/695
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject4701 Communication and Media Studies
dc.subject33 Built Environment and Design
dc.subject36 Creative Arts and Writing
dc.subject47 Language, Communication and Culture
dc.subject3303 Design
dc.subjectBehavioral and Social Science
dc.titleSecond Nature, a Practice-Led Design Investigation Into Consumerism Responding to Sustainable Home Habits
dc.typeJournal Article
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