This report is a documentation of an investigative design process that looks at how small shifts in established systems can be reconfigured to make big changes. It is an attempt at establishing a framework for designing sustainable solutions with the environment and social good in mind. In addressing the problems resulting from our indiscriminate use of plastic disposable dinnerware and offering a viable and earth-friendly system solution to the same, I am interested in reminding fellow designers that accountability towards the environment is the new design reality. The report advocates methods that synthesize design for people, profit, and most importantly, the planet. By using plates made from fallen leaves, the user fulfills his specific need for disposable dinnerware while simultaneously participating in an environmental task of closing the loop through responsible disposal and composting. / text

The goal of my graduate thesis is to design a dinner service set suitable for mass manufacture. The purpose of completing an academic study of dinnerware as an industrial designer is to gain a mastery of a product used everyday in and out of the home. With such a rich history in ceramics, it is challenging to design a new dinner service set that is functional, enhances the aesthetics of a meal and sustains the intimate relationship of everyday use by adapting to lives. My particular design ideals are expressed in the line quality, section, volume, breadth and visual language of the Galaxy Collection. This document is a record of the research and decision making process for the design of the dinner service. / Master of Science

This work it is about the study of the dinnerware safeguarded in Technical Reserve III of the Park of Baronesa Municipal Museum, located in Pelotas/RS. The research has been carried out following paths presented in the subjects of Archeology, Museology and Conservation and Restoration, intending, as a final result, to make a dinnerware catalog whose information integrates museum data, related to documents about pieces available in the institution and archaeological research data, focused on the study of archaeological dinnerware, available in specialized literature on the topic. At the end of this study, information will be generated which can be included to the catalog created for this type of material in order to be added to other already done studies and to serve as a source for future research. / O presente trabalho trata-se sobre o estudo das louças salvaguardadas na Reserva Técnica III do Museu Municipal Parque da Baronesa, localizado em Pelotas-RS. A pesquisa foi sendo constituída percorrendo os caminhos apresentados nas disciplinas de Arqueologia, Museologia e Conservação e Restauro, pretendendo-se, como resultado final, a confecção de um catálogo de louças cujas informações integram dados museológicos relativos aos documentos sobre as peças disponíveis na instituição e dados de pesquisas arqueológicas voltadas ao estudo de louças arqueológicas, disponíveis na literatura especializada no tema. Ao final deste trabalho serão geradas informações que possam ser acrescentadas ao catálogo criado para esta tipologia a fim de somar-se aos estudos já realizados servindo, também, como fonte para as pesquisas futuras.

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