Ecodesign in the Era of Symbolic Consumption

In response to environmental problems, ecodesign is a new paradigm in the field of design focused on environmentally sustainable technologies. It has become an important topic not only in design circles, but also in environmental ethics, economics, management, and other fields. Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan (1996) claim that the environmental crisis is, in a sense, the crisis of design.