Lifecycle Plastic Design: Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic

What would it mean to create a fantastic life for plastics? Plastics of today are associated with their negative impacts on environments from fossil-fuel dependency to persistent plastic waste and microplastic contamination. This class uses a lifecycle approach to understand the social, environmental, and economic costs of plastic and the lens of human-centered design to explore technological solutions to plastic problems. Practice your design skills from stakeholder identification and information gathering to concept generation, testing and refinement as you reimagine the lifecycle of plastic products. Learn more about how the plastic products around us are made, used and disposed of.