Curriculum Co-design workshop for Skillsnet in Sustainable Design Pratctice for Design Professionals.
As you may know Design Ireland Skillsnet has secured funding to run a Skillsnet in Sustainable Design Practice for Design Professionals.
The working group developing the course invites you to participate in a half day workshop at the Institute of Technology Carlow on the morning of Tuesday 15th April to develop the curriculum.
The course is intended to be multidisciplinary in nature but we would also seek to give specific workshops that are discipline specific and so we are keen to get the opinion of practicing design professionals with respect to what they would like to see in the course.
The workshop will be facilitated by Alastair Fuad Luke, Designer, Facilitator, Author and Maker who has a long standing expertise in the field of sustainable design.
The intention is that this course will be a fully accredited CPD (Continued Professional Development) course under the NFQ (National Framework for Qualifications. The course is being co-ordinated by IT Carlow, Design Ireland and Cultivate Living and Learning Center.
We are keen to have involvement from all design disciplines as sustainable design practice is both current and topical for all and offers significant opportunity to those designers who are well versed in its application.
Final Details on the workshop will be posted in due course.
For further details and to be involved in the workshop please contact:
Deirdre Doherty in Design Ireland info@designireland.ie
or
Adam de Eyto in IT Carlow deeytoa@itcarlow.ie
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
To act or not to act?
I came across this very simplified but effective theory on how to line up your thoughts (in this case on climate change) but it could be used for many of the difficult decisions we face as designers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI
Adam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI
Adam
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Cradle to Cradle on You Tube
There is a 20 minute clip of William Mc Donnagh the Co-Author of Cradle to Cradle on You Tube at the moment. Its well worth the look if you have time to spare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRjz8iTVoo
The Book Cradle to Cradle is also a must read for anyone serious about Sustainable design Thinking.(Amazon do it)
We are starting to look at ideas for Reform 08 so if anyone has ideas please get in touch, speakers,venues workshops etc.
Also if any of you are good at building websites we need a hand to get the 02ireland sustainable design network off the ground. volunteers would be welcomed with open arms.
Just give Adam a shout
Hope all are keeping the faith!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRjz8iTVoo
The Book Cradle to Cradle is also a must read for anyone serious about Sustainable design Thinking.(Amazon do it)
We are starting to look at ideas for Reform 08 so if anyone has ideas please get in touch, speakers,venues workshops etc.
Also if any of you are good at building websites we need a hand to get the 02ireland sustainable design network off the ground. volunteers would be welcomed with open arms.
Just give Adam a shout
Hope all are keeping the faith!
Monday, January 7, 2008
Sustainable design course UK: Designing for sustainability: Systems, ethics and beauty
A one, two or three week course at Schumacher College
February 4 - 22, 2008
This course will look at how nature's design process can influence human-made design, what constitutes form and function, how beauty relates to sustainable design and how co-design processes can lead to innovative solutions. The final week will provide an introduction to cradle-to-cradle design, a methodology for intelligent product design which takes into account
the entire life-cycle of the product.
EZIO MANZINI is Professor of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic and co-author of Sustainable Everyday: Scenarios of Urban Life.
ALASTAIR FUAD-LUKE is a facilitator, lecturer, and author of The Eco-Design Handbook, with a special interest in "slow design".
MICHAEL BRAUNGART is a chemist and founder of the Environmental Protection
Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg.
For more information check out…
http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/designing-for-sustainability-systems-ethics-and-beauty
February 4 - 22, 2008
This course will look at how nature's design process can influence human-made design, what constitutes form and function, how beauty relates to sustainable design and how co-design processes can lead to innovative solutions. The final week will provide an introduction to cradle-to-cradle design, a methodology for intelligent product design which takes into account
the entire life-cycle of the product.
EZIO MANZINI is Professor of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic and co-author of Sustainable Everyday: Scenarios of Urban Life.
ALASTAIR FUAD-LUKE is a facilitator, lecturer, and author of The Eco-Design Handbook, with a special interest in "slow design".
MICHAEL BRAUNGART is a chemist and founder of the Environmental Protection
Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg.
For more information check out…
http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/designing-for-sustainability-systems-ethics-and-beauty
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Ezio's answers to questions from the day
Q.As the Visions of the Future emerge what do you see?
A.I see the multi-local society, as a network of localities (cosmopolitan localities).
Q.Who provides the vision of what the new sustainable future will be?
A.No one "provide" the vision: the scenario is a design activity where you creatively use existing social and technical possibilities as row materials to build a vision (that is possible, but, of course, it is not sure). The vision on which scenario are built are subjective interpretations ... for this reason they are the results of design activities and not of scientific activities.
Q.Can you explain system innovation a bit more?
A.You have system innovation when you refer to an innovation that changes the "architecture of the system". (as opposed to the incremental innovation where the innovative transformation do not change the overall system architecture). To increase the efficiency of domestic washing machine, is incremental, to move toward advanced washing services is systemic innovation. To improve the environmental quality of the water bottles and of their logistics is incremental, to shift form bottled water to tap water is systemic, ... and so on.
Q.How do designers influence the sales and marketing drive to sell more products?
First: we have to understand that the system of production and consumption is changing fast and moving from a focus on products towards services, knowledge and experience. Unfortunately, this re-orientation is not bringing us to sustainability.
A.Going back to your question: you have to sell more products-services that intrinsically imply the reduction of other products and services: more washing services, may mean less domestic washing machines; more local organic food, may mean less industrial food (i.e. less chemicals, transportations, etc). More prevention related products- services, may mean less medicines and hospitals ... and son on.
See you
Ezio
A.I see the multi-local society, as a network of localities (cosmopolitan localities).
Q.Who provides the vision of what the new sustainable future will be?
A.No one "provide" the vision: the scenario is a design activity where you creatively use existing social and technical possibilities as row materials to build a vision (that is possible, but, of course, it is not sure). The vision on which scenario are built are subjective interpretations ... for this reason they are the results of design activities and not of scientific activities.
Q.Can you explain system innovation a bit more?
A.You have system innovation when you refer to an innovation that changes the "architecture of the system". (as opposed to the incremental innovation where the innovative transformation do not change the overall system architecture). To increase the efficiency of domestic washing machine, is incremental, to move toward advanced washing services is systemic innovation. To improve the environmental quality of the water bottles and of their logistics is incremental, to shift form bottled water to tap water is systemic, ... and so on.
Q.How do designers influence the sales and marketing drive to sell more products?
First: we have to understand that the system of production and consumption is changing fast and moving from a focus on products towards services, knowledge and experience. Unfortunately, this re-orientation is not bringing us to sustainability.
A.Going back to your question: you have to sell more products-services that intrinsically imply the reduction of other products and services: more washing services, may mean less domestic washing machines; more local organic food, may mean less industrial food (i.e. less chemicals, transportations, etc). More prevention related products- services, may mean less medicines and hospitals ... and son on.
See you
Ezio
Ezio Manzini says..
So lets begin …
With inspiring words from our key note speaker Exzio Manzini
Lessons learnt. After many years of researches and experiences on sustainability, and on design for sustainability, some major lessons have been learnt:
• Radical system innovations: no single product or service proposal can be considered as a real step towards sustainability.
• A new sense of “the local”: sustainability calls for valorization of existing physical, social and cultural local resources.
• A new idea on well-being: the expectations in terms of quality of life have to be modified in order to live better consuming less.
Working hypothesis. Facing these largely shared ideas, some working hypotheses can be done:
• The transition towards sustainability will be a large system discontinuity, prepared by a multiplicity of oriented local system changes and driven by emerging visions of the future.
Designers (and design researchers) may play a relevant role conceiving and promoting of scenarios of sustainable ways of living and solution based on local system changes).
• The reduction of tangible products has to be (more than) compensated by increasing the quality of the commons (i.e. the social and environmental common goods) and the degree of satisfaction (i.e. subjects as agents of their wellbeing).
• A new design knowledge is needed to shift their focus from tangible goods to commons and form user-centred design to an actor-centred design (i.e. to design for active people endowed with capabilities and will of using them).
Ezio Manzini Sep 07
With inspiring words from our key note speaker Exzio Manzini
Lessons learnt. After many years of researches and experiences on sustainability, and on design for sustainability, some major lessons have been learnt:
• Radical system innovations: no single product or service proposal can be considered as a real step towards sustainability.
• A new sense of “the local”: sustainability calls for valorization of existing physical, social and cultural local resources.
• A new idea on well-being: the expectations in terms of quality of life have to be modified in order to live better consuming less.
Working hypothesis. Facing these largely shared ideas, some working hypotheses can be done:
• The transition towards sustainability will be a large system discontinuity, prepared by a multiplicity of oriented local system changes and driven by emerging visions of the future.
Designers (and design researchers) may play a relevant role conceiving and promoting of scenarios of sustainable ways of living and solution based on local system changes).
• The reduction of tangible products has to be (more than) compensated by increasing the quality of the commons (i.e. the social and environmental common goods) and the degree of satisfaction (i.e. subjects as agents of their wellbeing).
• A new design knowledge is needed to shift their focus from tangible goods to commons and form user-centred design to an actor-centred design (i.e. to design for active people endowed with capabilities and will of using them).
Ezio Manzini Sep 07
A quick reminder ...
...For those of you who couldn’t make the conference here is a quick summary of the day’s events.
9.30 : Simon Stringer (www.leafenvironmental.ie)
10:00: Key Speaker -Ezio Manzini (www.sustainable-everyday.net/manzini/)
11.15: Erik Van-Lennep (www.tepuidesign.com)
11.40: Gertjan de Werk (www.Tudelft.nl)
11.55: Simon O’Rafferty (www.ecodesigncentrewales.org)
14.00: Workshops
16.00: Café style workshop wrap up and iscussion
17.00: Close
As mentioned on the day, use this space to ask any of the speakers questions related to their presentations/fields.
9.30 : Simon Stringer (www.leafenvironmental.ie)
10:00: Key Speaker -Ezio Manzini (www.sustainable-everyday.net/manzini/)
11.15: Erik Van-Lennep (www.tepuidesign.com)
11.40: Gertjan de Werk (www.Tudelft.nl)
11.55: Simon O’Rafferty (www.ecodesigncentrewales.org)
14.00: Workshops
16.00: Café style workshop wrap up and iscussion
17.00: Close
As mentioned on the day, use this space to ask any of the speakers questions related to their presentations/fields.
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