If the crowd will save us, and armies of developers working for good will truly save us from ourselves, then in the meantime we’re going to need better curators and story tellers to find the nuggets in the crowd and point us in the right direction.
Case in point: Nokia’s mobile application developer community, Forum Nokia, recently launched [...]
Join o2NYC as we begin a learning group whose goal is to understand Life Cycle Assessment, and to develop our skills as design professionals to provide the systems thinking approach and holistic understanding that LCA provides.
When: Wednesday, February 25th. 6-8 PM.
Where: Smart Design. 601 W 26th Street, Suite 1820.
RSVP: j at o2nyc dot org
$10 suggested [...]
If Products Could Speak Jan 26 2009
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Intro to the course, introducing three frameworks:
Stakeholder vs. Shareholder management
Life Cycle Analysis
Spimes
And many examples of green interaction design - both hit and miss ideas.
Phase 1: If Products Could Tell Their Stories, To Whom Would They Speak?
1. Intro: Towards a Sustainable Model of Product Design
Discussion: Intro to Life Cycle Awareness and Life Cycle Assessment Tools, and intro to sustainable product/service development
Readings: The Okala Guide, Modules 9, 10, 11, pp. 28-37.
Shaping Things, Chapters 1-6, pp. 1-54.
Assignment due next class: [...]
I’ll be teaching a class as an adjunct professor on my favorite subject at NYU’s ITP school this winter term: If Products Could Tell Their Stories - Towards a Model of Sustainable Design. I’ll be using this website to help catalogue all of the frameworks, models, thoughts, and design examples of sustainable design thinking that [...]
It’s about binkies.
I’ll take the risk of being a mom blogger, for this post alone. As much as I’ve been aware of the difficulties required in finding out the truth about products, their materials, manufacturing methods, and backstories, there’s nothing like the experience of new motherhood to drive this point home so painfully.
The binky story:
While [...]
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