Ge Wang is the Artful Designer. Associate Professor in the Department of Music (and by courtesy in Computer Science) at Stanford University. His book Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime is a masterpiece of photocomic that hides a book on the nature, meaning, and purpose of design in this age of technology, […]
Finn Boyle variously describes himself as a compost nerd”, a “food philosophy explorer” and a “yeast whisperer”. Realising the question of “what am I eating?” took him down a rabbit hole, Finn saw that he needed to change the world and that his lever was food systems design. He embarked on a food design degree […]
Welby Ings is Professor of Graphic Design at AUT. His recent book Disobedient Teaching is causing big waves in the education community. We ask Welby what drives him, and how professional disobedience can change the world.
Skye Duncan is an urban designer who is the Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) where she has been leading a multi-year program funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies to develop the new Global Street Design Guide. We talk about changing the narrative to a people centred urban design. […]
Tahu Mackenzie and Harvey Penfold won Audacious this year for their development of PekaPeka – a movable, predator-proof bird-feeding platform designed to feed a range of native birds anywhere. Tahu is the lead educator for Orokonui Ecosantuary, while Harvey is completing a Bachelor of Product Design at Otago Polytechnic.
Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann with Tahu Mackenzie and Harvey Penfold [ 54:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
We’re mapping different types of unknown territory.
Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann with Beth Ferguson and Sara Dean [ 55:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Multi-lifespan information systems, starts with premise that there are certain categories of problems that we’re unlikely to solve in a single human lifespan.
We’ve got to start with the large to be able to connect the dots of excellence.
Richard Latham and Jennifer McIvor are the passion behind Wishbone Design Studio. And that passion has created a successful international business firmly embedded in sustainability and quality. Because we declared our values early on – sustainability and quality – we were attracting customers of that same ilk, the pressure on us was not to drop […]
Samuel Mann with Wishbone Design Studio (Jen McIvor and Rich Latham). [ 1:02:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
The task becomes to bring values into technology you develop.
The trick is to make a business out of being more sustainable.
I don’t think “ecodesign” goes deep enough – it’s more about optimising the status quo rather than challenging it.
You would be very unlikely to win a game of chess without knowing the principled definition of checkmate. Reaching a sustainable society without any idea of the principles that define that situation would also be very unlikely.
