Task2c Video reflection: Home

The beautiful and impressive movie HOME, captures the stunning beauty of our planet, asking all the human being to take action to protect our only home, the earth. The balance of the planet is broken. The vast usage of natural resources, deforestation, agriculture...these are destorying the cycle of lifes and they are all human activities that should be changed immediately. It is sad to learn that 20% of the population is using 80% of the earth resources, there are still billions of people lacking safe drinking water, suffering hunger, there are climate refugees waiting for help, and they are resulting from the activities that we are doing. "Ecosystem has no borders", what we are doing is affecting people living thousands miles away. To help the world, we should start by ourselves,start sustainable consumption, and start influencing people around us.That is what I learn from this vedio, stop being a pessimist, take action.

Actually, the problems and damage of the earth is not difficult to see nowadays, we feel the threat but we just lack motivation to act. A lot of people is worrying the earth when they see the disasters that happen around the world. However, when the disaster gone, they are still doing the same thing as before. I think the most diffcult thing is to change the mind of the people. But if we can not change their mind ratically, we can change what they buy, the products. Make the products greener, gradually change their mind by the products at hand. Just like what we did in this semister, designing product service system, get people involved in the system and having fun with it, meanwhile, they are protecting the earth and doing what they are happy and willing to do. I think helping them do things unconciously is better than telling them what you should do to protect the earth. Small steps make great effect, I think changing one or two products may not seen the great impact of it on earth, but  seeing it as a whole system in the world, the impact will be great.

As a designer, knowing the problems is the first step, but making good solution is always the most important and diffcult step. Our mission is to help more and more people wake up, like the vedio did, and get them involved in protecting the earth by taking real actions.As it said in the vedio, "stop drilling the earth, look into the sky", it is saying that using renewable energy instead of oil for production. Companies want to make profits, whatever the products are green or not. So even if we want to design the products greener, we should think it in a beneficial way, which make profits to the company too, otherwise the solution is not sustainable in long run. I thought industrial designer was just designing forms that looks good, however, it is lot more than I thought. After what learned, I think I am getting clear and seeking ways to make better design.