The Secret Life of Things is a set of short animated videos exploring the hidden environmental impacts of everyday things. Each video comes with a free pack of learning resources to inspire and engage budding designers and product developers with life cycle thinking and eco-design. Read more
Here you can explore the hidden environmental impacts of everyday things - watch the video, download the learning resources or check out the online information on life cycle thinking and eco-design.
This site contains lots of resources and info about environmental sustainability for designers, engineers, educators, product developers and the general public.
Educators
The first learning resources pack is tailored for educators teaching design at a tertiary level. However, the resources are also suited to high-school design and technology classes.
Students
The Students Hub section of this site contains a wealth of information on eco-design. Here you can check out links and FAQs, leave comments, and share your ideas on designing more sustainable products.
Industry
We have grand plans for an industry engagement project about life cycle thinking and eco-design that will include interactive media and resources. For the moment, we've included some key resources and links for industry professionals wanting to upskill in eco-design.
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We believe in sharing, so all the resources on this site are available under the Creative Commons attributional license. This means you can download and use anything you want - or even edit, rewrite and publish it on your own site - as long as you attribute us as the source, and link back to our site.
Purchase DVD $14.95
