Make sense, not stuff: design and the green economy
What would designers design, if they did not design products, or posters? The question is not a rhetorical one. On the contrary, [John Thackara] believes design schools in particular [are] in danger of being marginalised by the speed with which the world is changing. He developed this theme in a text called Make sense, not stuff: A three step plan to connect design schools with the green economy. It's for Cumulus, the international network of design schools, whose next conference is in London 27-30 May.
Metrics of Thermo-Industrial Society (Florence event)
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others". Groucho Marx could also have been talking about environmental standards. Our world is awash in eco information, but starved of meaning. Hundreds of organisations churn out a flood of reports, graphs, studies, punditry - and lists. So [John Thackara] jumped at the chance to write a text about the issue for an event called Green Platform which opens at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence later this month. Green Platform takes a complex critical view of the "crisis in our thermo-industrial society".
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