Monthly Archives: July 2010
Most expensive
Is Design about designing really expensive things for the super rich? Take a look at these sites and comment if you want. Born Rich: Cruise to the luxury lifestyle In a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, divers have found what … Continue reading
Behind golden Gates
Is it a good this? This Gates Foundation. via Behind golden Gates. IN A forthcoming article for The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Devi Sridhar, a global health specialist at Oxford University, describes as a ”particularly serious problem” the ”loss … Continue reading
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What is grassroots Dad?
My daughter had a homework assignment that was a quote from an article by Anita Roddick. The task was to identify which were the ‘persuasive’ words and which were ‘emotive’ words. I read the article and got excited by the … Continue reading
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Fifth Goal
A project to look at Design Solutions for the Millennium Goal #5.
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World Changing
Designers are talking about changing the world. Some call is social design, some call it service design, many call it design thinking. What is this? These are new ways of thinking, new wasy of solving probelms and new problems. Its … Continue reading
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Fifth Goal
The Fifth Goal is a Studio course. Here is the blurb about the project. The Fifth Millennium Development Goal: Improve maternal health Since december 2009 I have been working on a project that aims to reduce maternal deaths. My proposition … Continue reading
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On Sustainability – from the inside looking out
An abstract of an article I am working on. The meaning of craft changes as we move through different contexts. The fact that it is an art form in the developed world takes it out of contention as a contributor … Continue reading
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World Changing
An Idea of a course: The book – world changing – links its lineage to the whole earth catalog. Reason enough for the book to be a must read for designers. And wouldn’t this area of exploration completely and totally … Continue reading
Filed under australia, Design School, politics, Projects, Service Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability
