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All videos of the Compostmodern conference (San Francisco, February 2009) are now online.
Presented by the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design (CFSD), this interdisciplinary conference explores the range of design thinking necessary to create a socially and ecologically responsible society. Designers, manufacturers and business leaders come together to find inspiration, share knowledge and explore real world opportunities for transforming products, industries and lives. Speakers included Eames Demetrios of Eames Office, Saul Griffith of Makani Power, Allan Chochinov of Core 77, California College of the Arts (CCA) Design MBA Chair Nathan Shedroff, climate strategist Michel Gelobter, John Bielenberg and Pam Dorr of Project M and the HERO Housing Resource in Alabama, Emily Pilloton of Project H Design, and Autodesk Sustainable Design Program Manager Dawn Danby. You can read more about Allan Chochinov’s talk here, and also Nathan Shedroff’s excellent talk is online. |
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2 July 2009
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26 June 2009
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Arup’s Drivers of Change initiative is an on-going research programme exploring those issues most likely to have a major impact upon society, on Arup’s business and on that of their clients.
Following the success of drivers of change 2006 publication, Arup Foresight recently published an update. This new set of 175 cards investigates leading drivers in greater depth that have particular relevance to the work of Arup. They include energy, waste, climate change, water, demographics, urbanisation and poverty. The cards can be used for developing business strategy, brainstorming, education and to help the reader to gain greater knowledge of the issues which are driving global change. The publication also encourages us to think holistically and creatively. Also check out the various Arup Foresight blogs: |
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24 June 2009
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The Independent is publishing a collection of essays to launch NESTA’s ‘Reboot Britain’ programme.
Reboot Britain will explore the role new technologies and online networks can play in driving economic growth and radically changing public services. The programme will begin with a one day event on 6th July which will look at the challenges faced as a country and how the combination of a new digital technologies and networked ‘Digital Britons’ can produce innovative solutions to tackle them. Diane Coyle (leading economist and author) on the Reboot Britain essays Lee Bryant (Headshift) on How people power can reboot Britain Andy Hobsbawm (Green Thing/Agency.com) – All Together Now: social media to social good Paul Miller (School of Everything) – Weary giants and new technology Micah Sifry with his Lessons from America Tom Steinberg (mySociety) talks about how Open House in Westminster Paul Hodgkin (Patient Opinion) on How the new economics of voice will change the NHS Jon Watts (MTM London) on Getting the balance right Julie Meyer (Ariadne Capital) looks at A day in Entrepreneur Country Daniel Heaf (4iP) on Next please – placing your bets in the digital economy |
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23 June 2009
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The first LIFT France conference took place last way in Marseilles. Being in Seoul, South Korea, myself, I missed it entirely, but luckily the videos are now becoming available.
Welcome to Lift! Initial and necessary challenge: “Technology & Society: Know your History!” Changing Things (1) – The Internet of Things is not what you think it is!
Changing Things (2) – Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products Changing Innovation (1)- The end of IT Changing Innovation (2) – Innovating with the non-innovators Takeaways: Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet’s thoughts from Lift
Changing the Planet (1)- Sustainable development, the Way of Desire
Changing the Planet (2) – Co-producing and sharing environmental consciousness
Conditional Future More videos are being posted to LIFT’s Vimeo, DailyMotion, Blip, Metacafe, Revver and Viddler accounts, so you can choose the platform you like. |
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23 June 2009
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Anne Galloway was one of the excellent presenters at the recent LIFT conference in Geneva. So it is with much pleasure to notice that she has written the latest contribution to Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine.
In her critical contribution ‘The rise of the sensor citizen – community mapping projects and locative media‘, she takes a close look at community mapping and sensing projects, and points out both the opportunities and challenges for activism made possible by locative technologies.
Anne Galloway (site | blog) recently completed a PhD in sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, which involved conducting an ethnographic study of the design of mobile and pervasive technologies. She is interested in connections between technological, spatial and cultural practices, and her current research explores design as a social and cultural activity and asks how social and cultural relations are designed. Galloway’s work has been presented to international audiences in technology, design, art, architecture, social and cultural studies, as well as published in a variety of books and journals. She currently teaches design and computation arts at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. |
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19 June 2009
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The UK Design Council just published — a little late — four short case studies based on the experience of Dott07, a year of community projects, events and exhibitions based in North East England and curated by John Thackara, that explored what life in a sustainable region could be like – and how design could help us get there.
New work Our new school Move me Low Carb Lane |
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5 June 2009
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| The upcoming PICNIC ‘09 conference (Amsterdam, 23-25 September) just announced is key themes:
Exploding Media: Exploding Story The Next Economy: Social, Sustainable, Creative Life in Motion: Finding the Magic in Mobile |
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30 May 2009
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30 May 2009
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Ken Banks, creator of FrontlineSMS, writes in PC World on the future of mobile phones and believes that many future mobile innovations will be borne out of the realities of the developing world.
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28 May 2009
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| Stephen Wolak, the brain behind Vodafone’s Betavine community, has launched a new social change community “where we look at how mobile technology and mobile services can bring about positive social change, particularly in developing countries.”
The concept, he says, “is to bring together problem owners, contributors who can help with a mobile solution and activators who can deploy the solution on the ground.” The community site, which currently mainly pulls in content from MobileActive, compliments the soon to be launched Betavine Social Exchange, a project funded as part of the Vodafone Group Social Investment Fund, which seeks to enable access to communications in emerging markets, and a mobile for social change forum. |
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25 May 2009
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Design Innovation Scotland has published a white paper by John Thackara, entitled Clean Growth: From Mindless Development to Design Mindfulness.
It’s the first in a series whose aim is “to stimulate thought and debate about…radical solutions to real-world challenges”. The intended readers are regional economic development professionals and policy makers. |
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20 May 2009
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Changing behaviour will be as vital as new technologies in tackling climate change. So where is the funding for linguists, anthropologists and sociologists? Tariq Tahir reports in The Guardian.
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12 May 2009
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The built environment is now the largest negative factor in the stability of ecosystems and the climate. As populations become increasingly urbanized, the evolution of cities will largely shape the outcome of our long dependence on natural resources.
Recognising the need and opportunity to improve sustainable building practices, the City of Helsinki and Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund are organising a sustainable design competition (rather than just an architecture competition) for a major urban development project. Called Low2No (implying “low to no carbon emissions”), the competition’s goal is to attract and identify the best teams to design a large mixed-use building complex on a reclaimed harbour at the western edge of Helsinki’s central business district, that would through its exemplary nature set out a sustainable development framework applicable to other contexts. Despite the short application time frame, a total of 73 applications were submitted. Last week, five teams were selected from a very competitive pool of proposals to proceed to the design phase of the competition. One of the shortlisted teams is led by the global design and engineering firm Arup, in partnership with the international architecture and urban planning agency Sauerbruch Hutton, and Experientia, the experience design company that this blog is part of. Arup is highly regarded for its many top-level projects, but also for its philosophy and culture of engineering – and in our field for the many important contributions by Dan Hill at conferences and on his famous cityofsound blog, whereas Sauerbruch Hutton is well-known for the design of the German Federal Environment Agency. Needless to say that we are very proud to be in such excellent company, and to be the only experience design consultancy in the shortlist. The five teams are now working on the development of “a design strategy and approach suitable to the challenge, a framework for developing an indicator of sustainability suitable to the challenge, and a vision for the project that will inspire stakeholders to overcome the challenges of systemic change”. The jury “will be instructed to evaluate the proposals based on evidence of systemic thinking. More than a design, we are look- Experientia will be taking a human-centred angle in its partnership with Arup and Sauerbruch Hutton, emphasising the fundamental impact that people’s behaviours can have on sustainability. Although we cannot disclose too much (the competition is still going on), we will surely be exploring a full plethora of research and design approaches, from ethnographic research to interaction design, and from service design to strategic communications. It will definitely be a great challenge for us to test and prove the fundamental role of a human-centred perspective in this pivotal project. |
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9 May 2009
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One of the sessions at UbiComp 2008, the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous computing (Seoul, Korea), was devoted to design and ethnography.
The four papers are all in the proceedings, but (except for the first one) you will need an ACM membership to download them. The Heterogenous Home Plastic: A Metaphor for Integrated Technologies Getting to Green: Understanding Resource Consumption in the Home Designing Sociable IT for Public Use |
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29 April 2009
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Recent Experientia collaborator and emerging markets expert Niti Bhan, who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland (where we met her yesterday), is involved with several interesting user-centred research projects on Bottom of the Pyramid issues.
One of the projects involves the analysis of exploratory user research on a Prepaid Economy Project – seeking to understand how those who live on irregular and unpredictable incomes manage their household finances. A short summary of our early findings is posted here:
Also on the project blog are posts on: Apparently, Niti told us, Helsinki has ambitious of becoming a knowledge centre on Bottom of the Pyramid issues, and more research can surely be expected, most likely involving also the new Alvar Aalto University through its brand new Design Factory. |
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26 April 2009
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As a contributing editor for Interactions Magazine, I am tasked with finding clever people to write a story for the magazine. My first choice was Bruce Sterling. He accepted and wrote a wonderful contribution — much appreciated by the editors — that was chosen as the magazine’s cover story.
Thank you Bruce. |
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17 April 2009
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Jeremy Faludi has compiled — in an article for Core77 00 a synthesis of the work of Stanford lecturer and researcher BJ Fogg on the field of persuasive design, and applies his insights to the field of sustainability:
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17 April 2009
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Elizabeth Goodman of the UC Berkeley School of Information made a presentation on the past and future of environmental issues and HCI at the recent CHI conference:
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