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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We tend to tell the story of developing world crisis in numbers:
Almost 1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water.
That’s one in eight of us.
Every day more than 4,000 children around the world die from diseases caused by poor water sanitation
In Africa alone, people spend 40 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Just posted this resource over at the Designers Accord.
To date sustainability tools and data visualization software look like they’ve designed by environmentalists. Welcome, interaction designers, your skills are needed here! This example from the Japan Sustainability Forum shows off a beautifully designed toolSee it Japan from Visible Strategiesof Vancouver. The perspective is for a whole country approach [...]
Whole Travel, a new site that last week, encourages eco-hotels and eco-travelers to rate their eco-lodge experiences according to green and socially conscious criteria. Sounds very crowdsourcy - just turn the task of sorting out the good eco travel destinations from the not so good to the eco-traveling masses, and we will herald an ethical, [...]
GOOD Magazine has partnered with Starbucks to launch an atmospheric CO2 infographic factsheet. While it would be interesting for GOOD to also show Starbucks’ footprint along side of this factsheet, it serves as an interesting call to action to the 350 parts per million idea - which is more of a proactive goal that the [...]
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