sustainable development

Oriol Pascual from Enviu Innovation Lab in Rotterdam describes several projects and initiatives that show the role of design in the creation of innovative solutions for environmental or social issues. In particular he focuses on his studio's work with regards to new sources of electricity production such as the generation of electricity through a dance floor.

At Lift Asia 08 designer Raphaël Grignani explained how sustainability can be taken into account in the design of mobile phones. How to avoid wasting energy? How to recycle material to create mobile devices? How to encourage people to keep things longer? Raphael discusses these questions and shows the "Homegrown" project Nokia Design conducted recently: new designs to automatically switch off the charger after the phone is charged, creating a culture of "caring" among phone users, and turning material waste into beautiful mobile phones.

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At Lift Asia 08 designer Raphaël Grignani explained how sustainability can be taken into account in the design of mobile phones. How to avoid wasting energy? How to recycle material to create mobile devices? How to encourage people to keep things longer? Raphael discusses these questions and shows the "Homegrown" project Nokia Design conducted recently: new designs to automatically switch off the charger after the phone is charged, creating a culture of "caring" among phone users, and turning material waste into beautiful mobile phones.

Capturing Solar Energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth in a 24 hours a day controlled process, in combination with hydrogen technology, apppears as one of the global, clean and sustainable solutions to replace fossil fuels. The application is expected to be operational in 30 years from now, and technological development is already underway.

Actually, I haven't exploret the website that much today, but I really wanted to react about this website: it's exactly the kind of initiatives that a lot of students in design work on and I think Tom Taylor really brought a nice spirit to this project.
In few words the website is a social platform for people to act in a positive way for sustainable development. The humorous pieces of advice propose a real deep education, based on really simple actions for everyday life. Tom Taylor (www.tomtaylor.co.uk) explains that for him, a green thing is:
- positive
-easy
-creative
- a group thing (the aim being to base the efficience on the mass and on the peer respect)

an application enables each user to visualize it energy consumption, and the CO2 economized through his initiatives.

Really, to my understanding a very interesting intervention insofar as the whole platform proposes a new glimpse on ecology, and especially make it accessible to anyone.