From April 16th to April 30 2008 I will be “discussing” the book online with readers on the Well’s author’s forum, known as “Inkwell” http://www.well.com/inkwell/ The Well is the online community known “whole earth ‘lectronic link.” I’ve made a comittment to check in to the forum at least once a day during this two week… Continue Reading
Update to part 1 In part 1 of this answer, I offered ideas for you to evolve a sustainable design job out of a conventional design job. Since I wrote that post, I’ve come across a few additional pointers on converting a conventional design job into a sustainable design job. First, a new group called… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
This category contains my answers to a series of questions that often come up when I’m talking to groups about sustainable design and the ideas in my book, The Designers Atlas of Sustainability. Q: I’ve recently graduated in design (architecture, industrial design, textile design, etc.) and I’m really interested in working in sustainability, but I… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
(Accords, Declarations, Calls to Arms, Codes of Practice, Polemics) If you need evidence that designers are struggling with the questions of activism and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the way the profession engages is social and environmental issues, you need look no further than a spate of recent manifestos, etc. Although some of them are discipline-specific,… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
All Design is Activism I’ve heard some people argue that if activism is simply of form of action intended to create change, then all design is activism. Randolph Hester, at UC Berkeley, makes this argument adding, “there is no such thing as passive design” [1]. And it’s true that a great deal of writing about… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
This category contains my answers to a series of questions that often come up when I’m talking to groups about sustainable design and the ideas in my book, The Designers Atlas of Sustainability. Q: I’ve recently graduated in design (architecture, industrial design, textile design, etc.) and I’m really interested in working in sustainability, but I… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
I explain how I define activism in the “about & contact” page, but here I’m illustrating how activism fits into the economy. In this post I first describe the economy and design’s role in it, then I investigate how activism manifests itself within this framework. The Economy First, we have to recognize that the economy… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
This category contains my answers to a series of questions that often come up when I’m talking to groups about sustainable design and the ideas in my book, The Designers Atlas of Sustainability. Q: what do you think are some of the best examples of sustainable design around today? A: I think there are a… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
This category contains my answers to a series of questions that often come up when I’m talking to groups about sustainable design and the ideas in my book (The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability). I’ve spoken to groups in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle, Spokane, Vancouver), and Boston. In the next few months I’ll be speaking in… Continue Reading