DESIGN MIAMI 2011
TOKYO DESIGN WEEK 2011
DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2011
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2011
Posted by core jr | 8 Sep 2009
That's a big title, but Jeremy Zietz's essay up on Continuum's blog is a good thinkpiece with tendrils all over hell and back. My favorite section is the "Disconnection to Manufacturing" of course (with its mention of How It's Made and Manufactured Landscapes), but Handmade Detroit gets a mention as well as a bunch of others. Further along, here's a paragraph we can all get behind:
Being involved in a community of commerce is about personal relationships with the people involved, the stakeholders. Who's behind the process? What motivates them? Strong product development companies and vendors know the value of these connections and spend big on fine-tuned service and sales. Similarly, we still realize the value of that ashtray we made in art class for our parents (smoking or non) and its endless value, a stamp in time. Owning things that are connected to strong relationships is of the highest value. The tighter our list of stakeholders becomes, the more we gain an understanding of the process and invest in our communities. We may see how development systems working on this community scale can more efficiently customize solutions to its needs and promote its own expression. As consumers understand their products more, stakeholder's values of fair trade, worker's rights, and local manufacturing will be heightened.
