Sustainable Colour Design Strategies
The colour issue:
How to make more sustainable colour decisions for design projects?
In a colour-based interactive exhibition, there was the need to provide the historical context, both international and Chilean, of how the contemporary knowledge of colour we have today was developed during time. Additionally, the information had to allow users to navigate and interact with it.
The solution: the Sustainable Colour Design Strategies Framework
Years: 2023 – Today.
During recent years, it has become imperative to reflect on the social perspective, as the potential for fostering more sustainable user behaviour is a growing field of interest, together with a need for a careful evaluation of ethical issues. These concerns are also growing inside design practice and education, where colour is a fundamental resource. Design education should motivate a careful evaluation of a sustainable colour application, stimulating critical thinking and fostering concrete actions related to reuse, recycling, and recovering colours, among others. This research proposes a reflection through eight strategies on colour sustainability to be addressed within design decisions. The study aims to provide guidelines for design educators and practitioners to address these issues in the design process, and therefore, the strategies are presented through suggestions of concrete actions for their implementation.
Commissioner: Politecnico di Milano, Visiting Researchers Programme, Department of Excellence.
