Melting Man Challenges Climate Change

Inhabitat » ECO ART ACTIVISM: Melting Man Challenges Climate Change
It appears that global warming has finally created its own version of the Wounded Veteran. Sitting in a puddle of himself in Buenos Aires’ Plaza Francia, a young man from Red Cross Argentina issued pleas to passers-by: not for spare change, but for action against climate [...]

China Partly Blames Foreign Designs For Unsafe Toys

China Partly Blames Foreign Designs For Unsafe Toys
BEIJING (AFP)–China on Tuesday laid part of the blame for poor product safety on foreign companies whose designs were flawed, as millions of parents around the world prepared to buy Chinese-made toys for Christmas.
In a defiant response to a reporter’s question on toy safety, foreign ministry spokesman Qin [...]

Launch of the Design Lab

Launch of the Design Lab and a great IDEA – News and Events – University of Sydney
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning recently launched the Design Lab, an innovative new centre for digital design.
The Design Lab brings together engineers, designers, artists and architects – all linked by their passion for design and its [...]

Bonnie at the Melbourne Design Market

I went to the Melbourne Sunday Design Market – orgainsed by the Nationla Design Centre. This market happens twice a year. Here is a picture of Bonnie’s stall.

Artefact

artefact
Any object that has been used, modified, or manufactured by humans, such as a tool, weapon, or vessel. In art, an artefact is a product of human skill and creativity, while in archaeology, the object may be a simple item of importance and interest.
Armenian Architecture – VirtualANI – Glossary
Any small object that has been manufactured, [...]

Reviving Experimental Design, by Scott Klinker

Beyond Fashion: Reviving Experimental Design, by Scott Klinker – Core77
Today, if any realm can claim the conceptual high ground of design research, it is interaction design–the perfect intersection of objects, systems, and social behaviors. Interaction design has become a separate branch of design discourse, a friendly sibling of industrial design with it’s own unique vocabulary [...]

Design School Vision

I finally started writing – the tool kit for a new School of Design. A tool kit because a vision is so self aggarandising. Tool kit is so much more participative. For now the tool kit has three parts – a way to do a take on design.

1. The Agenda – which in this case [...]

More on Liz Sanders

Elizabeth B. -N. Sanders » Staff Profiles – School of Design – Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
Liz Sanders is a pioneer in the use of participatory research methods for the design of products, systems, services and spaces. She divides her time between teaching and practice.
Liz teaches human-centered design to students, clients and [...]

An Evolving Map of Design Practice and Design Research

Love this way of drawing maps and explaining this. Have  done it for years – and the stopped. In this paper – which I read online – I see Liz trying to get a comprehensive take on design research going. Its great – but I doesn’t work for me totally for I may be grounded [...]

Strengthening the national diabetes care services by enhancing the capacity of health care providers

Capacity Development project. What is the ‘care model’ that the health care providers will be trained in? If this is clinical practice – how does the diabetic benefit – and therefore how will the ‘care’ model be assessed?
India Diabetes Research Foundation :: IDRF-WDF Project
PROJECT TITLEStrengthening the national diabetes care services by enhancing the capacity of [...]

This may dissipate focused effort on diabetes which is a big problem for India

Rs1,620 crore pilot project to curb diabetes, heart diseases launched – Economy and Politics – livemint.com
One health activist said the government was trying to pack too much into the programme. A. Ramachandran, president of India Diabetes Research Foundation, called the Rs1,650 crore budget “a drop in the ocean”.
“The government has also diluted the programme by [...]

Rs1,620 crore pilot project to curb diabetes, heart diseases launched

Rs1,620 crore pilot project to curb diabetes, heart diseases launched – Economy and Politics – livemint.com
New Delhi: In the first initiative of its kind, the Indian government
has started a programme to prevent as well as map the extent of
diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and stroke—chronic ailments that
could cause life expectancy in the country to fall and have [...]

This Bank Refuses Fed Bailout

Robert Reed: Surprise! This Bank Refuses Fed Bailout
The way major financial institutions are feasting on taxpayer-backed bailouts, you’d think every bank in this country has on the feed bag.
Not true.
Just north of Chicago, dwelling in the People’s Republic of Evanston, is First Bank & Trust — a 13-year-old community lender that doesn’t want any part [...]

Will GM be declaring bankruptcy?

The White House Gifts A Bailout; The Politics Of GMme On the Hill – Marc Ambinder
If GM is forced to declare Chapter 7 bankrupcy and shut down immediately, its assets could be sold off. How quickly? No one knows. How many jobs would be lost temporarily? 100,000? Unclear. Permanently? More than a million? Three million? [...]

People Centred Innovation with Base of the Pyramid

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I am very excited to embark on this new combined research and consultancy project about People Centred Innovation with Base of the Pyramid. For the next six months I will be exploring how we can create new products and business models to improve the life of the half of the world’s population who is getting [...]

Better Place

Better Place || An Innovative Company || Who We Are
Who We Are
Imagine living free from oil.
Picture zero-emission electric cars running on a clean energy grid. Governments, auto makers, energy companies and Better Place work hand-in-hand to make this happen. The result: our people and our planet prosper together.
This is more than a vision. It’s something [...]

‘Community-ness’ And Making A Difference: Towing The Line

Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog » ‘Community-ness’ And Making A Difference: Towing The Line
Xris Reardon, artistic director of Third-Way Theatre, has a new show in Melbourne’s outer east. ‘Towing the Line – Distorted Perspectives’ is theatre that aims to make a difference. To me the Third-Way Theatre process sits very comfortably [...]

“mug me” earphones

Word Spy: “mug me” earphones
“mug me” earphonesn. The distinctive white cord and earbuds associated with the often-stolen Apple iPod digital music player. Also: mug-me earphones.
Example Citations:Police call iPod assaults an epidemic, not unlike the spate of violent swarmings in the 1990s where the prizes were expensive running shoes and jackets. But iPods are more valued [...]

D-Light

d.light – About Us
The use of kerosene lamps has caused countless disabilities and loss of lives. Kerosene lamps are a poor and unreliable source of light that emit smoke and create unhealthy home environments. They depend on kerosene fuel, which is expensive for the rural family. There are 1.6 billion people worldwide who still [...]

Indonesian AIDS Patients Face Microchip Monitoring

Indonesian AIDS Patients Face Microchip Monitoring – NYTimes.com
Lawmakers in Indonesia’s remote province of Papua have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips — part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease.
Local health workers and AIDS activists called the plan ”abhorrent.”
”People with AIDS aren’t animals; we have [...]

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (November 25, 2008) – No Sucking From A Bag Any More

A very nifty new device to help astronauts drink their coffee:

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Industrial Design job

Industrial Design job ($65,000) in Melbourne Metro, VIC ( Manufacturing:Industrial Design and Product Development )
Leading the market in POS display, this client is a retail merchandising solutions provider. A vacancy currently exist for a versatile industrial designer to work within concepts, structural design and graphics.
You will be working on projects for Australian and leading global [...]

Industrial designer salaries in Australia

I have belived the salary was much lower – and this seems fairly good. But then where are these jobs – where you get this salary?
Industrial Design and Product Development Jobs in Australia – Find Employment @ MyCareer
How much do people in the Industrial Design and Product Development industry get paid?
The average person in the [...]

Job: Professor of Industrial Design

Rhode Island School of Design is seeking a Full-Time Professor of Industrial Design in Providence – Core77
As key members of the faculty, the Assistant and Associate Professors will develop and assist in the implementation of new curriculum in response to the rapidly expanding roles of industrial design in contemporary practice. In addition to teaching responsibilities, [...]

The State of Design Education in Nova Scotia

The State of Design Education in Nova Scotia | Brightwhite Design
I am extremely interested in all aspects of the design profession, from how it’s taught to how it is practiced, especially as it relates to online or ‘new’ media.
It seems that our local educational institutions are largely out-of-touch with the skills, design processes and requirements [...]