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I first I thought it was gonna be a narrative documentary, however there’s barely any description on the video. Nonetheless, the few words that appear are very concise, blunt and convincing. Those words are the following ones:

1. “We can do better.”

2. “We aren’t apart from nature, but a part of nature.”

3. “What we do to nature, we do to ourselves.”

4. “We are this living earth.”

That’s it, nothing else needed… I like how in the video it seems as if ashes were falling down from the sky and everything was being covered with dust, when in reality the scenes were filmed in the ocean and there’s tones of trash and the objects taht ended up down there have grown algae. Even tho it was filmed in balck&white format, everything looks death and colorless.

The video pretty much just gives you the time to reflect on the impact that our cosumption habits have on the environment, makes you realize that it is time for us to take action in the matter. I like how the vid closes with the 4 quotes that I mention at the beginning. It is no just that we can do better, it is the fact that we can do something and we’re barely doing anything.

For the second quote, I think it is important to have in mind that we are no independent from nature, on the contrary, we depend completely on it. We should invest more time and efforts in taking care of it, inasmuch as we take care of nature, we will be taking care of ourselves. Sounds cheesy but I do believe we are one, humans and nature.

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Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? The Truth Is Complicated.

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Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? The Truth Is Complicated.

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"We spect that other people solve our problem"

The documentary talk about the real problem about recycling and why no one talks about because they have no idea how this process works.

So recycling suppose  to make money because you sell the waste to manufactures that can make something with it, but actually recycling is costing money to the people that work with it at the first step, that is collecting it and decide where to send it.  The problem is when there is no other people to send all the tons of waste they have.

People are very far for the reality of the propose of recycling, they think consumption can stay the same as always as long as they separate garbage and recycle plastic and paper and stuff.
But the real thing is what people that work in the recycling industry is going tru,  there is no place to throw trash and industry is not buying all the waste...

The important mindset is to work together with manufactures because there is people waste and there is the most waste that industries made. So be conscious that excess production is what we are fighting whit and the importance of the product development as well the packing can be the real change.

"Quit the word recycling out of the equation and start taking about waste and consumption"

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The Economics of Happiness is a documentary made by a compilation of different footages that show diverse places that have been affected by globalization in a social, economic, cultural and ecological way. It first projects an Indian region called Ladakh, where people seemed to live happily with a cultural identity and a strong sense of community. They consumed local products, and they needed no more. However, under the pressure to modernize the region, globalization came along and ruined it, developing a cultural inferiority complex and an incapacity to adapt properly.

More than anything, the documentary focuses on the recent changes in the production and consumption of food and its effects among the world.

In this film, we can see the social and environmental costs of industrialized agriculture and the global circulation of these foods, affecting carbon dioxide in the world. The negative effects of globalization is something that not so many people are aware of and is not talked about enough nor studied. For instance, many rural communities in India and Peru have been affected with negative impacts by globalization when they were pressured to modernize their system of agriculture, leading to economic and cultural issues in the communities. It is something to think about that needs sustainable alternatives.

Globalization is an inevitable result of economic growth in a world as fast as it is now. However, we need sustainable economic growth with strategies to improve value culture and community within these places that have and grow these local products. As a designer, it is part of my labor to study these kinds of cases and get well informed to understand them as a whole, and then, being able to propose a sustainable solution and get involved. Design can be implemented as a solution in any part of these issues. I just need to properly understand the problem or the necessity by implementing a methodology for proper investigation. In this case, what are the necessities of these rural communities? What can we do to help these communities with something as inevitable as globalization? How can we treat the matter in a holistic way? Can globalization really be sustainable? Is it possible to live in a land where there is a social, cultural and economic positive balance? Can products just stay local or is globalization really an impossible concept to deny? Would it be better if they just stayed local?

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After watching the documentary Seaspiracy I realized that ONG’S or ocean care associations hide many secrets. They share the same interest with large fishing industries or they even take part of that industry. In addition, the ONG´S promotes the decrease in plastic usage , however they do not comment anything about reducing ocean wildlife consumption which is one of the biggest problems in the ocean.

Another important aspect is that big companies lie in their packages because they said that they obtain the fish in an ethical way, but in the majority of the cases is a lie.

Its surprising how the ONG´S say the people that are affecting the ocean by using plastic and they have to recycle or buy other material or products that substitute the use of plastic, but there is not  only one solution to this problem,  association does not say that one of the biggest problem is the excessive consumption of marine animals.

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Alejandra Palero
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This documentary talks and shows the amount of plastic that is produced, used and thrown away into the trash and it's consequences, how it ends up in the ocean, traps fishes and pollute sea shores. Not only that but the plastic that is sent to be "recycled" it ends up not being recycled at all. The solutions start to appear when nations ban or tax the use of single use plastics, this is when companies turn to use different materials, compostable plastics or a completely different solution. As a designer I can tell how all of these little and bigger solutions to susbtittude or reuse the existent plastic had a designer who brought a solution to these changes, how scientists experiment with new types of plastics and how people reuse them. I can become a design activist just like these people finding solutions to the reuse of plastic, new materials investigation, designs that don't use plastic at all, etc. there's room and market to these problems since the awareness grows into the new generations. As we evolved to re-design products into disposable plastic ones, we have to re-design them back to non-polluting materials or seek better solutions.

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The thing that stuck the most into my mind is  that we live in a society where there are too much information that enters our head so we compare ourselves with the success prototype of the media, a prototype where the more things you have the more you are valued, which is a wrong statement because it is not general, we should make our own meaning of success.

In another note a thing that I was very intrigued by was how we get this shot of happiness when we get something new thinking that it would make us better but normally the stuff that we get on a regular basis doesn't add up to our value as a person.

I think this documentary has a valuable message, take a step back to understand what's the real meaningful things in our life, taking into account that those things are not physical mostly, in a sustainable sense diminishing the consumer in ourselves it a pretty positive goal, setting a mindset of not getting stuff that we don't need not only helps the environment on the sense of not giving more power to big corporations at producing more and more products but also for changing our way of seeing life.

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With this documentary I understan how trying to do the things fast, cheaper and without research, we can destroy our world. Investigate de nature of everything is the clue to understand and work in team, not against nature, but with it. If you understand, you can see all the oportunities, and use it in favor to get a win win. And this kind of think, can work for everyone, even a Industrial Designer.

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Sustainability Strategies for Product Design

Seaspiracy is an eye opening documentary about the environmental impact of fishing. The film's main objective is to end fish consumption by exposing  various human activities that impact marine life. Very few people are aware of how much those activities hurt the marine ecosystem and its wildlife, at least I wasn't at all notified about the repercussions we have caused.

It got me thinking… ¿How can I as a designer make a change?

I don't think we can force humanity to stop eating fish overnight. The main problem is the activity right? So how about we change the way of fishing? The change can be made by designing a new form of fishing keeping in mind to always protect the sea's wildlife and its ecosystem. While changing how we fish the act of eating fish will no longer have repercussions so there is no need to stop consuming it.

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Mariana Guerrero Portales

"Under capitalism, we buy the right things as a way for us to seek acceptance and "connect" with others"

Degrowth: The downscaling of production and consumerism in a way that increases human wellbeing and engances ecological conditions and equity
-Buying Less
-Repairing
-Reducing meat consumption

Degrowth cannot function on just individual lifestyle choices, we have to work on changing the system.

We are so used to buying more than we need just because we feel like it, we don´t want to give up our lifestyle evendought it is costing us our life on this earth; but in fact the video mentions we don´t have to give up a lot, we just have to start consuming as we did on the 1960´s.

How you I become a design activist?

I believe that as a designer interested in slowing down our actual rate of consumption and in Jewelry, I can try to teach people and other brands, that they don´t need to have a lot of material stuff to feel fulfilled, we have to be more consious about what we buy and why. Start questioning where the products we buy are made, by who, in which conditions they labor, where do they get their materials from and how, as well as many other things.

- Try and design slow fashionable jewelry, by not following any trend.
- Use materials and processes that won´t hurt the environment.
- Make pieces that will last and can be used a lifetime.

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Mónica Valeria Villanueva Rangel
Analysis:
The earth is in a perpetual movement, leaving humanity aside, each living being adapts, in contrast, the human wants the things to adapt to him. That's one of the problems; now we don´t have periods, all is happening so fast, for example, the logging is so quick, we use trees a lot for many products, because of that we even leave enough time for natural reproduction, as in the film said the trees (the ones we use and see that touch the sky) took a long time to be that way. The consequences that we could see nowadays are visible and shocking; forest fire on a grand scale, floods, earthquakes, climate-changing (extremely hot/cold), and diseases. All of this takes not only human lives, but also wildlife and resources. We are living in a pandemic, in my opinion, the result of what we have been doing the last decades. This pandemic has grown due to the little care we have, inequality of resources and education, and human individualism. I want to give an important approach on the importance of education when we talk about sustainability because this topic is connected not only with resources but also economic, social, and political factors that are involved and could influence; “Everyone should take part in the effort” (Home 2009). Connecting with the question expressed in class How you can become design activists? For me and as a designer I think we have a big responsibility on the things we create, in how, why, for what, and where and align it with conscious sustainability. We are in part responsible for the solution, and of what we develop, so we also need to be the master of the way humans consume. Current consumerism is out of control, we need to relearn the way we purchase, the way we see the resource.

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Unbroken Ground: Revolutions Start from the Bottom

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Unbroken Ground: Revolutions Start from the Bottom

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The documentary introduces four projects or examples that aim to change the way agriculture is used nowadays, in order to improve and restore our relationship as humans with the land and oceans. The projects talk about regenerative agriculture, regenerative grazing, diversified crop development and restorative fishing. A phrase that I really liked from the first story is “soil is more important than oil” because I think we often times forget about its greatness and what soil itself does for us. Another detail that impacted me from the second story is that soil is often synonymous with dirt when in reality its more like gold. The second project, about regenerative grazing is about reintroducing the buffalo to its native area, the Great Plains in South Dakota. What I really liked about this project is that they work with natives that have a spiritual connection to the land and to the buffalo in order to restore the ecosystem while having bison meat as a byproduct. I also found the selective fishery project very interesting because I didn’t know fishing could be as thoughtful or careful as they do it, they also use fishing techniques used by First Nations and want to promote responsible harvesting of the salmon because it is “the buffalo of the northwest” as it is an animal sacred to the indigenous people of the area. We all have a responsibility to find this land better than we found it, I think these four stories are great examples of how an agricultural revolution is going to come by not through technology but by doing things the old way. We can become design activists by referring back to the ancestral way of doing things whether its agriculture, fishing, textiles, etc. Although it would be difficult to stop industrial agriculture or fishing, we could start by looking at the examples shown in the documentary to understand it is possible to continue to produce and harvest but in a more mindful and sustainable way.

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Aranza Martínez Rizo

I decided to watch the documentary Seaspiracy with no expectations of what it would make me feel afterwards. When I finished watching I was shocked and very, very sad. In a quick summary, the documentary talks about the real impact that fishing has on the environment, the corruption and violence that happens in the subject and the killing of species, destruction of corals, etcetera.

To be a designer has a large responsibility in what we create and I was sure that the answer to the question "How to be an activist" was to design things that don’t generate a lot of trash or designs that use sustainable materials but now I'm thinking it's a lot more difficult than that. I learned that we can’t trust in labels that assure sustainability because probably it’s a lie. I learned that even if we change our ways of living and stop generating trash, it doesn’t make a real difference in the world so what can I do individually to help?

To talk more about what the film tells us, the big problem it’s in the way people make things, thinking in the easiest way possible and the cheapest way as well as forgetting about the impact on the environment, the violence and the repercussions they make. I think this is the problem in each industry, not only the fishing one.

So to answer the question, I can be an activist first, by changing my ways of living, stop consuming, not only seafood, but the things I know that involves all these bad things behind it’s production and yes, continue living in a “sustainable way” reducing trash, reutilizing, reduce consumerism, etcetera. But as a designer, I think it's more difficult than that. It is not about designing with sustainable ways, we are past that, I think that, to make an attempt of changing things, I can use my abilities to create worldwide campaigns, to think about designs that help to solve this kind of problems instead of just designing with recycled things and, at last, try to make a change in everything I do, even if it’s the difficult way.

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Is recycling worth it anymore? The truth is complicated. 

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Is recycling worth it anymore? The truth is complicated. 

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Name: María Fernanda González Nieto

This documentary discusses the truth about recycling and how we as public relay on it to save the planet, but at the end, we are not really involved, and are very disconnected from the reality of what it is.

At first hand, something that captured my attention is how once again the problem started by big companies that want to sell more. At the beginning plastic was meant to be a material that permitted products to last, and that’s what the companies sold to the public, but then, they realized that by selling the idea that the products were meant to be used only once and then dispose them, they could sell more. And here is one big problem, plastic is a material that is meant to last, so by making it a one use only material we end up with waste that will stay in this world for a long time. So why we still use it for this kind of products?

I think as designers we have the responsibility to create products which are well thought. As mentioned earlier, everything starts with choosing a material, we must select the one that better fits but also think about what will happen after the user finishes using the product. I think there shouldn’t be more room to put the responsibility on others so that it becomes someone else's problem. We have to be involved in every aspect of the life cycle of our products and be really honest with the public about the products we sell. Also to speak up when we know that there are materials that are causing more damage than any good or to come up with ideas for using new materials. Every product should be considering the impact that it will have on the environment and not only consider the economic impact, this also includes not over producing and only creating what is necessary. Because as it is discussed in the documentary, companies pass the responsibility to the public to manage the waste, but the public doesn't put things in correctly and pass the problem to someone else and so it goes. This problem should be solved from the beginning and that is during the design process

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Capitalist Realism, Mental Illness and Societies of Control

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Capitalist Realism, Mental Illness and Societies of Control

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Social issues.
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The constant questioning of the world in which we live and its economic model. It is not possible that our own model pigeonholes us and puts labels on us, which isolate us from everything, when first of all we are human beings and we need others to be able to survive. Unfortunately, every day they sell us the idea that we must be independent in every way and that this will lead us to personal and professional success, when the only thing that leaves us is isolation and mental or physical health problems and solving it is enough to just tick a few boxes of a questionnaire to be medicated or diagnosed with a problem or an addiction. The problem is not people with mental health problems, it is society and the model that separates itself from any problem that is not its own, leaving aside all those who cannot continue with the pre-established rhythm of life.

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Your Name: Mariana Guerrero

Analisis:

"Under capitalism, we buy the right things as a way for us to seek acceptance and "connect" with others".

Degrowth: The downscaling of production and consumerism in a way that increases human wellbeing and engances ecological conditions and equity:

-Buying Less
-Repairing
-Reducing meat consumption

Degrowth cannot function on just individual lifestyle choices, we have to work on transforming the system.

We are so used to buying more than we need just because we feel like it, we don´t want to give up our lifestyle evendought it is costing us our life on this earth; but in fact the video mentions we don´t have to give up a lot, we just have to start consuming as we did on the 1960´s.

Hhow can I become a design activist?

I believe that as a designer interested in slowing down our actual rate of consumption and in Jewelry, I can try to teach people and other brands, that they don´t need to have a lot of material stuff to feel fulfilled, we have to be more consious about what we buy and why. Start questioning where the products we buy are made, by who, in which conditions they labor, where do they get their materials from and how, as well as many other things.

- Try and design slow fashionable jewelry, by not following any trend.
- Use materials and processes that won´t hurt the environment.
- Make pieces that will last and can be used a lifetime.