Teaching Lifecycles and Flows with Rebecca Silver at SVA’s Products of Design - product backstories, systems thinking, life cycle assessment. Or, environmental accounting, taught to design students. With stunning results - Here is Emi Yasaka’s assessment of her REI backback
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Happy to be at the inaugural second year for Products of Design at SVA. Following through on a promise many years ago to Allan Chochinov, I’ll be teaching Lifecycle and Flows with Rebecca Silver, and adapting a systems thinking approach to product backstories.
Lifecycle and Flows will expose students to the hidden forces behind how consumer [...]
NYU ITP class on life cycle assessment, systems thinking, and stakeholder management. Week 3: In a stakeholder management model, what role to local community groups, activist organizations, workers’ advocacy groups, and other NGOs play in determine how stuff is made?
If Products Could Tell Their Stories Feb 8 2010
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Discussion of initial LCA research as a background to product story.
Consumer behavior as a lever of change.
If Products Could February 1 2010 B
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Product Transparency, XRay Style: the recent effort from The Ecology Center to take an XRF scanner to hundreds of consumer products yields not so surprising, but accurate data about “how things are made.”
Entrepreneurs Movement: Can entrepreneurs be organized? The Kauffman Center will soon find out, as they attempt to start a movement of business owners, [...]
Thanks again, Core77. For your quick write up:
Microcycle Project - Union Square from wake on Vimeo.
“How tightly can a product’s lifecycle be compressed… and what are the ramifications of doing this?”
These are the questions Elliott Montgomery asks with his MicroCycle project–a mini manufacturing station-turned-public outreach kiosk that recently appeared on the south end of [...]
Always looking for Spime ideas that do not rely on a mega infrastructure of sensors and data networks - like this simple concept SendMeHome via TechCrunch. It’s a site that let’s you register an object with a unique code, and they sell little stickers you can place on the object. Oooh, a business model that [...]
For the second year in a row a DIY project wins the Greener Gadgets Competition - this time it’s a crew from Make Magazine who hacked into a Kill-a-Watt in order to give the device a Twitter voice.
The Kill-a-Watt power meter will “tweet” the daily kilowatt hours consumed to the user’s Twitter account. Make is [...]
Week 4 - We’ll focus on the role that government and regulators play in defining the paying field for green product and service innovation. Much of the class follows the argument in the excellent book by Mark Schapiro: Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products.
If Products Could Speak Feb 23 2009
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Via We Make Money Not Art, Thomas Thwaites attempts to make his own Toaster (for art, not money).
He is looking for someone who has access to an oil rig, and anyone with info about nickel mines in the UK.
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