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		<title>extractive design: takes a lot, gives very little</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Harvard Business Review, Umair Haque has written about &#8220;titanic institutional failure&#8221; &#8212; how institutions not only fail to provide value but actively extract it from us, extractive institutions. (His article is &#8220;The Economic Roots of Your Life Crisis&#8221;). And it got me thinking about the idea of extractive design. Although we might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designactivism.net/archives/417</link>
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		<title>an array of jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few days I&#8217;ve tweeted (@atlasann) about seven interesting jobs that all seem to have a component of activism and would suit a designer. Here&#8217;s a recap: Social Innovation Exchange job, &#8220;Senior Research Associate: Social Innovation&#8221; find out more before deadline 31Jan2012 owl.li/8Hm3q AND RT @thinkpublic :looking for a Curiosity Tickler to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>timeline for design activism &#8212; what would you add?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been preparing a text on design activism and in particular, what can be learned from social movements. Part of the text is a timeline for &#8220;cause-oriented&#8221; design, which I include here in order to get input from readers about what is missing or debated. Please comment!  links and references  will come later (sorry, no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designactivism.net/archives/385</link>
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		<title>An event and a short paper on defining design activism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a couple of items here, an event and a paper. I&#8217;m chairing the upcoming event next week, Weds. 25th May. The talk is part of the &#8220;Scarcity Exchanges&#8220;  program of the research project, Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment. This session speculates on design and consumerism, looking particularly at available material and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>time and scale: local now versus global 10,000 years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently two examples of design activism came up on my radar at nearly the same time, and they were of such different scope and scale that I wanted to mention them. The first case is a small project that drew attention to leaking pipes and the resulting &#8220;scum river&#8221; on the sidewalk in a neighbourhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designers in a new &#8220;collaborative&#8221; brand called Common</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard about the idea of a collaborative brand I was intrigued. The message came in a tweet from Project M’s John Bielenberg, “world’s first collaborative brand.” I promptly retweeted (follow me on twitter @atlasann), but also watched a video of their launch. The idea is that you can shift a brand’s value [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designactivism.net/archives/352</link>
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		<title>Two Books: Architecture Depends &amp; Change by Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if I&#8217;m the only one who read Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (by Tim Brown) and Architecture Depends (by Jeremy Till) back to back. The effect was very interesting in that Brown seems to provide a description of design operating largely as Till suggests that it should, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designactivism.net/archives/333</link>
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		<title>The survey winner and more results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[wishing you the best beats in the new year More results One of my fellow design activism bloggers (at Social Design Notes) asked if I would share more details of the survey results. Good Idea. I&#8217;ve created a list of the sources that people suggested for learning more about design activism. The responses are anonymized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designactivism.net/archives/325</link>
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		<title>Results of the design activism survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone who completed the survey. One lucky person has won the $50 gift certificate (to be named upon confirmation). In the survey I asked seven questions to help me shape my results on design activism into something that you can use. Well over 100 of you took time to reveal a bit about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designactivism.net/archives/317</link>
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		<title>ethical oath: architecture (part 3 of 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Architects are typically licensed professionals, which means that they subscribe to a code of ethics as part of the licensing process. (I examined and wrote about a range of codes of ethics of design associations for my book, The Designer&#8217;s Atlas of Sustainability). Although a recent article in Dwell magazine about the merits of architectural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://designactivism.net/archives/296</link>
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