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.
The first Secret Life of Things team is happy to introduce the first animation in the series called Life Pscycle-ology which explores the secret life of a little mobile phone called Eric.
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About The Secret Life of Things (SLOT)
The Secret Life of Things (SLOT) project aims to inspire and engage people with the hidden environmental impacts of everyday things, using fun short animated films and learning resources.
The learning resources demonstrate eco-design via engaging case studies and fact sheets, which lecturers and students can download as PDF documents. They cover eco-design strategies such as design for disassembly, product stewardship, e-waste and other vital topics. They also explore how these strategies are applied to everyday items such as mobile phones and sports shoes. There are fun learning tasks to encourage students to think, do research and apply their new knowledge in practical and creative ways.
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