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Towards Hackable Architecture

Ethan Zuckerman

My presentation at Applied Brilliance today was a quick version of my Innovation from Constraint talk, a talk that makes the argument that some of the best design ideas come from facing the constraints provided by material circumstance. Using a whole mess of examples stolen from Afrigadget, the talk argues that we hack technologies once they become familiar – from charcoal to bicycles to mobile phones. I ended with a couple of examples of innovative uses of social network technology,...

Friday Question: Failed Green Living Products?

Alex Steffen

We'd love to hear your ideas on this question: what green living products from the last decade now look faded, perhaps even bad ideas or failures? Why? (And for extra credit: what can we learn from their failures?)

Tools of Engagement

Alex Steffen

Most of the time, when designers have been asked to create products, spaces and services with the user in mind, the result has been designs that prioritize coolness and convenience above all other values, says Robert Fabricant in fan excellent post over on Core 77. But what if the 'users' themselves are the problem? What if users represent not a coherent set of needs but a messy mix of desires and influences? What, ultimately, is the role of the designer in sorting through these desires to...

Ask the Planet: Introducing Children to Biomimicry through Music

WorldChanging Team

Nominated by Hesseltje S. van Goor My grant goes to the Biomimicry Institute and their new children’s CD, Ask the Planet and its sister-website, AskNature.org. As Bioneers Radio Show host/producer Neil Harvey describes it: a musical celebration of nature’s genius … designed to connect children to nature, create a sense of awe for the environment, and teach them about the concepts of biomimicry. Coming at a time where climate crisis has gained international recognition, the field of...

ETech 2009: Adobe on Sustainability

Jeremy Faludi

At ETech last week, Kevin Lynch from Adobe talked about some sustainability-related things they're working on. The most important-sounding one was actually just briefly mentioned: Acrobat Connect, a web-conferencing tool. I haven't used it, and he didn't demo it, but good online collaboration tools are one of the most important things software people can make for sustainability, because they enable telecommuting and telepresence. When people think of solving the transportation problems,...

In the Bubble

Alex Steffen

I'm a huge fan of John Thackara and his writing. As I wrote of his book, In the Bubble, That book changed my brain. From the very first few pages, I was hooked: here was design thinking about sustainability and social innovation that understood and loved technology and ingenuity, without being blinded to its downsides, that embraced prosperity and modernity without missing the big picture that our current ordering of the world is both making us less happy than we might be and destroying the...

Conference Report: DesignBoost

WorldChanging Team

Note: We strongly encourage reader reports from the field. This is John Manoochehri's take on the recent DesignBoost conference. In the interests of full disclosure, we should mention that Alex Steffen was initially a scheduled speaker, but had to bow out because of conflicting demands. DesignBoost is an emerging Scandinavian conference, network and brand created by communciations designer David Carlsson, and design entrepreneur and trend-hawk Peer Eriksson, both based in Malmö, Sweden. The...

Will Lights Bloom Across Canada?

WorldChanging Team

By WorldChanging Canada writer Madeline Ashby. Via PhysOrg, we learn of Philips' new "Light Blossom," a green-savvy streetlight that will promises to reduce light pollution while gathering energy from the sun and wind. The flower-shaped lights will not only track the movement of the sun across the sky, but let its "petals" rotate and catch the wind's energy. In addition, the LED lamps will dim during nighttime hours but brighten whenever motion sensors are activated. I can imagine that...

Preview: Curry Stone's Five Finalists in Humanitarian Design

Julia Levitt

Here's a handful of innovative, human-oriented solutions to start off your weekend. The Curry Stone Design Prize, a competition debuted this year by the University of Kentucky College of Design, will unveil its 2008 finalists tomorrow at this week's 11th International Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. The Curry Stone judges will award $100,000 to the winning creator of an innovation that improves human lives. The five finalists are described (in an excerpt from Curry Stone's...

When appropriate design meets sustainable livelihoods

Cameron Sinclair

In many parts of rural South Asia young women are often left with little option in gaining an income. Unfortunately thousands, some younger than 12, are being trafficked and lost into prostitution every year. In July I was in Bangkok to meet with some of our Burma reconstruction teams and happened to connect with Eve Blossom. Eve is the founder of Lulan Artisans, locally driven social venture that creates an alliance between textile designers and artisans to produce hand-woven fabrics...

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