July 25th, 2008
June 6th, 2008
We20invite20you20to20INTERSECT
May 14th, 2008
sustainability victoria
MB – not sure when i originally posted these – but will let the stamp be recent as they are useful and relevant to me now anyway… but i did find them aaaaages ago… oops.
check up on these
http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/www/html/1645-design-for-sustainability.asp?Thankyou=1
http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/www/html/1431-sustainable-business-and-industry.asp
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THINGS TO DO, my Blogg
May 12th, 2008
Design For the Other 90% | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Design For the Other 90% | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
May 12th, 2008
The UN Millennium Development Goals
May 12th, 2008
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
Critique of design for the other 90%
My sentiments, i couldn’t stay for the whole presentation at ACMI last month in Melbourne, there seemed from what i saw one worthwhile solution – the pot in pot evaporative cooler – designed and made locally (i was told).
The one laptop per child really makes me wonder what we are thinking as human beings – technology is not going to save us. In fact nothing will. But that’s no excuse for not being attentive to the context of problems and also the long term implications of it’s use (or if in fact it is even useful)
