Design Appreciation

Daniel Eisert Design Appreciation November 6, 2020 Lecture XX: Waste Management 20 Economy of Waste 20.1 ARTICLE: Which Nations Drive, Fly, Cycle, and Take the Train Most? • Americans drive the most followed by Canadians, Australians, and Italians. However, Amer- icans drive 40% more than Canadians. • Japan rules the trails followed by Switzerland and France. • Ireland ﬂies the most followed by Qatar and Iceland. • The Dutch bike more than any other country followed by Denmark and Germany. 20.2 VIDEO: Four Years of Trash: One Jar • Lots of plastic isn’t recyclable (e.g., clothing tags which are often synthetic, produce stickers, credit cards, etc.). • Aluminum lids (e.g., yogurt lids). 20.3 VIDEO: Underground Bins Keep Trash Out of Sight • A Swiss company is changing the way cities deal with trash. • As a result, bins take up less space but can hold more garbage for longer. • Larger containers can be picked up all at once less often. Daniel Eisert Page 1

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Daniel Eisert Design Appreciation October 27, 2020 Lecture XVII: Working 17 9 to 5 17.1 VIDEO: Future of Your Job in the Age of A.I. • Routine and predictable jobs are threatened by machine learning. • Half of jobs are at high risk for automation. 17.2 VIDEO: Cost of Healthcare • The cost of healthcare has far exceeded the cost of inﬂation. • In 2016, the total health expenditures per capita is roughly $ 10,000. • The cost of healthcare includes: technology, paperwork (roughly 30% of the cost in the U.S.), proﬁt, unhealthy people, and bad design. Daniel Eisert Page 1

Daniel Eisert Design Appreciation November 9, 2020 Lecture XXI: Cultural Change 21 Divergent Futures 21.1 ARTICLE: Rolling Coal Backﬁres • Aftermarket car parts are being sold so that vehicles can roll coal . • These parts bypass pollution standards. • Emissions in the airshed from these vehicles can triple. 21.2 The Option for Change: A Divergent Future 1. Transportation Reform 2. Zoning Reform 3. Housing Reform 4. Food Reform 5. Social Reform 21.3 ARTICLE: Is the Toyota iRoad the Future of City Living? • The iRoad isn’t a car or motorbike, but rather its a small elecric-powered personal mobility vehicle. • It has a 37-mile range and is very small (only three feet wide). It is completely electric. • It has a top speed of 60 km/hr for a three hour charge. Daniel Eisert Page 1

Daniel Eisert Design Appreciation October 22, 2020 Lecture XVI: Healthcare 16 An Apple a Day 16.1 VIDEO: History of Healthcare • The best and least expensive healthcare is diet an exercise. • Roughly 2400 years ago, Hippocrates was the ﬁrst to believe that diseases were natural occurrences instead of works of gods. ”The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.” • A common method of bringing the body to balance was bloodletting a few hundred years ago. • Until recently, medical treatment was incredibly slow. • Anesthesia was available by the time of the American Civil War. Prosthetic development has been vastly improved over the years. • In the 1940s, penicillin was the ﬁrst antibiotic to be invented. Today, people often overuse antibiotic, and they are fed to animals while living in ﬁlthy conditions to be fattened up to be slaughtered. One doctor said that we have reached ”the end of antibiotics, period.” Death by infection is on the rise. • Today we are killing ourselves with food due to all of the harmful and addictive chemicals places in our food today. 16.2 VIDEO: Cost of Healthcare • The cost of healthcare has far exceeded the cost of inﬂation. • In 2016, the total health expenditures per capita is roughly $ 10,000. • The cost of healthcare includes: technology, paperwork (roughly 30% of the cost in the U.S.), proﬁt, unhealthy people, and bad design. Daniel Eisert Page 1

Daniel Eisert Design Appreciation November 14, 2020 Lecture XXII: Suburbia 22 Quarter Mile 22.1 VIDEO: Seaside at 30 • One of the ﬁrst green towns. The homes have no front lawns and native plants. • It is easy to walk from one area to another. There are many paths. • People like traditional urbanism: small streets, close together houses, and a sense of commu- nity. 22.2 VIDEO: Food & Aﬀordable Housing • Americans are unhealthy, broke, and lonely. • We should design neighborhoods with gardens, ﬁelds for play, and a small cafe or restaurant in the center. • Garden houses are very aﬀordable. Daniel Eisert Page 1

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