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Unit 4: Sustainable design
Quick questions on Evaluating and justifying sustainable designs (QCE Design Unit 4)
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What is evaluating against criteria?Show answer
A rigorous evaluation is structured by the criteria set in explore, not by a vague overall impression. For a sustainable design these criteria span three groups:
What is using evidence?Show answer
Evaluation must rest on evidence, not assertion. The strongest evidence sources are:
What are justifying trade-offs?Show answer
Sustainable design is full of trade-offs, and pretending otherwise weakens a response. Justification is where you name a trade-off and defend the choice you made:
What is the language of justification?Show answer
Justification uses connective reasoning: because, therefore, which means, this is supported by, the trade-off is justified because. Each design feature should be traceable back through a criterion to a need or a sustainability requirement, and forward to the evidence that it works. This connective chain is the structure markers look for and the structure the external examination rewards.
What is no life-cycle evidence in a sustainability claim?Show answer
A sustainability verdict needs life-cycle reasoning, ideally compared to the original, not a bare label.
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