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EXDL Code of Conduct
EXDL products and services should be:
- emotionally enhancing
- esthetically challenging
- ethically sublime
- economically planet conscious prosperous
- spiritually relevant
- educational / edutaining
- multiplicity = multicultural / multidisciplinary / multi acceptance
- socially responsible and challenging
- culturally real = supporting and stimulating the development of real social (tribal) structures
- tribal design
- creatively stimulating = (designers being midwifes for creativity) DOOsign
- environmentally understanding and conscious = planet wise
EXDL environmental facts & factors:
As a starting point there should be no such thing as garbage. In the future garbage will not exist or it don’t need to exist.
Everything is a resource ideally if treated the right way.
We need to understand that pollution is either too much or too little of matter in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Everything on this planet is in constant transformational cycles. In reality that means everything is (bio)degradable and its just a matter of time. Today most of what we do is NOT easily degradable over short times and that creates the vast pollution problems we have. We could claim that its our mindset that needs to shift or transform and as part of that our way of consuming. We need to understand that pollution is:
either too much or too little of matter in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If we do not understand this simple concept or fact, then we will continue to pollute. No matter how organic, bio etc. we go, matter will always pollute in case it is not understood, meaning sent back to the system (the planet) in an a quantity which is digestible or possible to transform via processes which do not harm the system.
Is a vast amount of bio-matter left somewhere to go through a mono-cultural** degrading process, then it will no matter what create immediate pollution, that could had been avoided in case the it was happening in a NON-monocultural way***.
We will always try to design or develop a service or a PSS (a Product Service System)**** rather than an actual physical product when a project is given.
However in some cases a service could indirectly use more resources or have environmental consequences which would not be beneficial at all for anything or anyone.
What you see here are only guide-lines and since one of our benchmarks is understanding and working with complexity in order not sure make irrelevant and shortsighted solutions, you might wonder how we manage all this and and how we control that fx. Materials live up to our high standards. Well you might see from time to time that we make mistakes, but of course we cant control everything ñ we can only try and since we also believe that we need to test as many new options as possible always, there might areas where we do wrong. So when it comes to materials we will as a minimum consider or ask us and our client about the following:
Materials:
- what is it made from and we mean everything
- is the material short term or long term biodegradeable
- is the material easily recycleable
- is the material reusable even after several product cycles ñ the cascading* process or eternal material life cycle*****.
- could the material appear in new form and be upgraded in a recycling process.
- is the material easily part of a closed or natural loop-system
- where does it come from Transport
- HOW far has the material traveled (+ final product)
- what kind of fuel used
- is the material developed in ethically appropriate ways
- is the material
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