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Unit 4: Sustainable design
Quick questions on Redesigning approach and design opportunities (QCE Design Unit 4)
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What is critiquing the existing design?Show answer
The first step is a rigorous critique of the current design. You analyse it across the dimensions that matter for sustainability:
What is framing the redesign opportunity?Show answer
The critique produces a redesign opportunity: a clear, bounded statement of what to improve and why it matters. A good opportunity statement names the target (which aspect of the existing design), the sustainability problem, and the people or systems affected. Framing the opportunity well keeps the redesign focused - trying to fix everything at once usually fixes nothing.
What is an unfocused opportunity?Show answer
Trying to fix every flaw at once produces a shallow redesign. Frame a bounded opportunity targeting the biggest impacts.
What is change without improvement?Show answer
A redesign must be shown to be better against the criteria, with evidence, not merely different or more stylish.
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