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tempo MANIFESTO
tempo members will design with integrity, sensitivity and compassion. They will design products/service products that are sustainable i.e. those which serve human needs without depleting natural and manmade resources, without damage to the carrying capacity and diversity of ecosystems and without restricting the options available for present and future generations. tempo’s members will seek pluralistic solutions for individual human, social, and environmental well-being and in doing so will help encourage new economic and business frameworks within the ethos of sustainable development.
A tempo member will design to:
· satisfy real needs rather than transient fashionable or market-driven needs
· encourage equity between humankind
· engender maximum benefits of well-being to the intended audience
· ensure physically, culturally, emotionally, mentally and spiritually durable products
· maximise products’ benefits to socio-cultural communities
· celebrate a culture of largo
· foster debate and challenge the status quo surrounding existing products
· exclude innovation lethargy by re-examining original assumptions behind existing products
· educate the client and the user by encouraging sustainable literacy and graphicacy
· dematerialise products into service products wherever there is proven benefit in terms of individual, social and/or environmental well-being
· encourage modularity and upgradability: to permit sequential purchases, as needs and funds permit; to facilitate repair/reuse; to improve functionality
· reduce resource flows and environmental pollution by minimizing the ecological footprint of products/service products
· harness solar income - sun, wind, water or sea power and renewable materials
· enable separation of components of products/service products at the end-of-life in order to encourage recycling, reuse and remanufacturing
· exclude the use of substances toxic or hazardous to human and other forms of life at all stages of the product life cycle
· publish sustainable designs in the public domain for everyone’s benefit, especially those designs that commerce will not manufacture
· promote Design for Sustainability as an opportunity, not a threat, to the status quo
· celebrate diversity and pluralism
· create strange, new beauties that alert all human senses and values