I’ll be teaching Lean LaunchPad at ITP this spring with Josh Knowles - thanks to all mentors and advisors who have signed up. Still looking for more - local and virtual.
We embrace a creative, iterative, and collaborative approach to making things — but launching a product out into the world takes a somewhat different set [...]
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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Week of April 6th - looking at biodiversity depletion. That sounds too nice. Biodiversity depletion. We’re talking about plants, mammals, fish, birds, and other species going extinct. Never existing again. And what that has to do with making things.
If Products Could Speak April 6
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Week of March 30 - evaluating human health impacts from environmental warming, resources depletion, and toxicity. Also - starting our reading of Cradle to Cradle.
If Products Could Speak Mar 30 2009
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But really, this is the best example of sustainable design that I have ever seen.
Harry Frederick Harlow’s experiments on rhesus monkeys demonstrated primate connection to fuzzy, soft objects in the absence of a real, actual mother monkey. Notice how baby monkey clings to carpet mother. When given a choice between food and terry cloth, monkeys [...]
Special Guest Design Critic Allan Chochinov joins the class.
If Products Could Speak Mar 2 2009
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We’ll talk about the greening of business, and how to build the case for environmentally friendly products and services.
If Products Could Speak Mar 2 2009
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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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