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Mar 16

More-Than-Human: Design After Human-Centricity

Ten alternative approaches to design and the three that are gaining traction in industry, government, and academia. — Hello, it’s 2023, and one would need to live under a rock to be oblivious to the human-made climate and environmental emergency we are living in. Interestingly, a recent study by the World Inequality Lab in Paris showed that increasing temperatures, extreme weather patterns and biodiversity loss are first and…

Design

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More-Than-Human: Design After Human-Centricity
More-Than-Human: Design After Human-Centricity
Design

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Mar 30, 2021

If silicon-based solar panels are so clean, why do they produce so much toxic waste?

Organic and bio-based solar cells to the rescue. — Promises about harnessing energy from the sun can be traced all the way back to 1839. And in 1884, American inventor Charles Fritts installed the first solar panels on a rooftop in New York City. Today, Australia leads the world in solar per capita but… the problem of solar panel…

Solar Energy

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If silicon-based solar panels are so clean, why do they produce so much toxic waste?
If silicon-based solar panels are so clean, why do they produce so much toxic waste?
Solar Energy

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The Human Centered Design Network

·Aug 5, 2020

Speculative BioCities

Tokyo 37.39 million residents Delhi 30.29 million residents Shanghai 27.05 million residents São Paulo 22.04 million residents Ciudad de México (Mexico City) 21.78 million residents Dhaka 21 million residents Al-Qahirah (Cairo) 20.9 million residents Beijing 20.46 million residents Mumbai (Bombay) 20.41 million residents Kinki M.M.A. (Osaka) 19.16 million residents … …

Speculative Design

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Speculative BioCities
Speculative BioCities
Speculative Design

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The Human Centered Design Network

·Oct 22, 2019

Speculations on the Future of Design

It’s nearly 2020, and we must admit that our collective reality looks nothing like what it used to back in 2010. Siri and Alexa. 4K screen resolution. IBM’s Watson. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas. Tesla’s Cybertruck. 4D printing. 5G technology. Same-sex marriage. The #metoo movement. Greta Thunberg. Jacinda Ardern. CRISPR/Cas9. The Higgs…

Design

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Speculations on the future of Design
Speculations on the future of Design
Design

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The Human Centered Design Network

·Oct 5, 2019

Design, Futures and LSD

Service Design—the design of services—is a funny beast. Deeply rooted in the 60s’ democratic and inclusive Scandinavian cooperative design movement, its name actually comes from the corporate sector where it was first described using a particle physics analogy. “(Service Design) suggests that behavioural hypothesis, which rearranges or alters any element…

Design

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Design, Futures and LSD
Design, Futures and LSD
Design

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The Human Centered Design Network

·May 27, 2019

Human-Centered Design™ is Bullshit

*October 2020 update: thanks for the thousands of reads! This article is a critique of the tool-kit approach to designing from my days in industry. …

Design

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Human-Centered Design™ is Bullshit
Human-Centered Design™ is Bullshit
Design

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Jul 10, 2018

Grit Magazine: A Youth-led Resilience Publication

A finalist entry of the inaugural 2018 NGV Victorian Design Challenge — “In 2016 the Victorian Government announced a major new initiative to support, celebrate and enable Victoria’s design sector. Curated and presented by the NGV in collaboration with Creative Victoria, the Victorian Design Program is a year-long roster of design and architecture-focused events and activities culminating in Melbourne Design Week each March.

Design

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Grit Magazine: A youth-led resilience magazine
Grit Magazine: A youth-led resilience magazine
Design

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Mar 20, 2017

The Design of Value

From the value of design to design-led value creation — In 2013 the US-based Design Management Institute started to track the value of publicly held companies that met specific design management criteria and proved that, over the span of ten years, design-led companies maintain significant stock market advantage, outperforming the S&P Index by a remarkable 200+ percent each year. More…

Design

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The Design of Value
The Design of Value
Design

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Architecture and design for circular, regenerative and more-than-human futures 🌱🌇

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