Abstract

This project began with the question: What keeps us from achieving sustainable happiness, happiness for ourselves and future generations? I have chosen to focus on the citizen/consumer conflict which occurs when our consumer choices are incongruous with our moral obligations to society. This conflict is a consequence of the market systems that are in place and consumers’ lack of a critical understanding of these systems. Thus, with this project, I am attempting to make these systems more transparent. Looking at economic approaches like price adjustment and awareness-raising strategies I have focused on the latter. Drawing from the history of semiotics and experiential pedagogy, I applied pedagogical principles to an everyday consumer product, in this case dish soap, in order to help consumers understand, through the use of the product, the product’s ecological benefits and how their own consumer choices affect environmental health. The name of the emerging product is Clean: dish soap for clean water.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Sustainable design; Design--Philosophy; Design, Industrial--Environmental aspects; Dishwashing liquids--Environmental aspects; Dishwashing liquids--Marketing

Publication Date

8-1-2007

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

School of Design (CIAS)

Advisor

Morgan, David

Advisor/Committee Member

Shearman, Richard

Advisor/Committee Member

Wagner, Jeffrey

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: TS171.4 .M38 2007

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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