Today in Materials and Processes we watched a documentary called, Manufactured Landscape directed by Jennifer Baichwal about the Canadian photographer Ed Burtynksy. This Film was composed of the adventures Burtynsky took to capture his photos. Burtynsky does landscape photography, but not just any typical landscape, he does landscape that has been altered by human activity. Such as factories,mining location, e-waste, debris, etc. It's amazing how waist, destruction, and trash can still look so beautiful. When looking at them one experiences all kinds of emotions, guilt, confusion, helplessness, anger, joy, which is the whole point, he wants the viewer to decide how they feel on their own. These are problems that run deep. At this point it is safe to say we are doing something wrong with design. What is the point in designing for products thats final destination is the waist land?

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