Åkermark, Anne-Marie, 2003. "The crucial role of the designer in ecodesign". Doctoral thesis. DiVA Academic Archive Online. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:9405 The main topic of this text is a strong belief that designers have a major impact on sustainability, since they are the ones who are the nicest to reduce the environmental impact through their design. The following related ideas support this thesis: – “designers themselves must be given the opportunity to actually design environmentally friendly products”. In this way, by ensuring that they have the means and capabilities to have total control of all aspects of design, this will ensure sustainability in the creation of their products and/or spaces. Support from other sources is vital during product development. This includes environmental management systems and even government regulations that ensure that designers at large companies focus on sustainability, as the goal of large companies is to increase profits. It is essential to underline from the beginning how important “environmental adaptation” is. ensure that "environmental skills" are at hand and ensure constant training on the subject, so that the issue of environmental protection and sustainability are well rooted in the work of designers.N/A. 2007. “Sustainable Design.” Pacific Builder and Engineer 113(11): 10 http://search.proquest.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/docview/195867125?accountid=10382 The main argument of the text is that designers need to ensure they they are creating sustainable environments, to allow maximum energy savings, as well as having a "positive economic impact" on society. The following r...... half of the document ......Architectural science: the foundations of sustainability Project. Burlington: Taylor and Francis. The main argument of this text is that it is necessary for the designer to have total control over internal environmental conditions, in order to create a sustainable living and/or working environment. The five human senses are influenced by built environments. Therefore, the designer can and must control them to the best of his ability so that living is more sustainable and has a lower environmental impact. - The designer must take note of the given conditions and evaluate them to the best of his ability, to ensure that the natural environment has been taken into account. - It is the designer's duty to strive to ensure that maximum control of environmental variables has been adopted in the design, in order to maximize sustainability.