Slow Design

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what is design?

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source: Design Council

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Design is the process of applying creativity in orderto facilitate solutions that address human needs invarious contexts…..

it is an expression of human intent

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Quote source: DTI Innovation report - Competing in the global economy: the innovation challenge - http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file12093.pdf Notes: The Government’s 2003 innovation review identified the environment as a key driver for future innovation. Improved, lower impact products and services need to be developed. Some will be specific environmental goods and services, such as technologies to minimise pollutants or promote resource efficiency, or renewable energy sources. These already have a global market worth over $500 billion, but the scope for innovation extends far wider. For example, new materials, energy technologies and product design to minimise waste will all be important in future. Well designed environmental policy, with clear, long-term targets, can promote innovation and business opportunity. (UK SD Action Plan) Web resources: Forum for the Future – Eco-Innovation - http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/docs/publications/220/Innovationpaperfinal.pdf UK SD Action Plan - http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/publications/pdf/strategy/SecFut_complete.pdf BERR innovation pages - http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/�

source: inhabitat, OLPC

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Image source: http://www.laptop.org/ Notes: Most of the nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade. The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so. It is time to rethink this equation. Given the resources that developing countries can reasonably allocate to education—sometimes less than $20 per year per pupil, compared to the approximately $7500 per pupil spent annually in the U.S.—even a doubled or redoubled national commitment to traditional education, augmented by external and private funding, would not get the job done. Moreover, experience strongly suggests that an incremental increase of “more of the same”—building schools, hiring teachers, buying books and equipment—is a laudable but insufficient response to the problem of bringing true learning possibilities to the vast numbers of children in the developing world. Web resources: �

80%of environmental & social impactsof a product or service can be locked-in at the design stage

why design?

image source: WRAP

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Quote source : European Commission - http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/library/enterprise-europe/issue14/articles/en/enterprise12_en.htm Notes: “Over 80% of the impact on the environment of an energy-using product, such as electrical or heating equipment, is determined at the design phase. Integrating such considerations at this early stage is to everyone's benefit. Measures taken at the design stage are more effective and avoid disrupting the single market. As a result, the Commission is proposing draft legislation on an eco-design for these goods.” (European Commission) Web resources: General ecodesign [redesign] - http://82.110.105.93/redesigndesign.org/index.php Ecodesign network - http://www.ecodesignnetwork.co.uk/index.html Social Design Network - http://www.design21sdn.com/ Design Council - http://www.design-council.org.uk/en/About-Design/Business-Essentials/Sustainability/ Designers Without Borders - http://www.norskform.no/default.asp?V_ITEM_ID=1490 Biothinking - http://www.biothinking.com/pd.htm Massive Change- http://www.massivechange.com/ Change x - http://www.changex.org/ Worldchanging - http://www.worldchanging.com/ Treehugger - http://www.treehugger.com/ David Report - http://davidreport.com/blog/category/sustainability/ Core 77 - http://www.core77.com/reactor/07.07_flux.asp Re-nourish - http://www.re-nourish.com/ Lovely as a tree - http://www.lovelyasatree.com/ Futureproofed - http://www.futureproofed.com/ Philips - http://www.philips.com/about/sustainability/projectsandproducts/index.page TRAID - http://www.traid.org.uk/ Bruce Mau Design - http://www.brucemaudesign.com/ Anti Apathy - http://antiapathy.org/ Change Design - http://www.changedesign.org/ Better Thinking - http://www.betterthinking.co.uk/magazine/ Design Green - http://www.designgreen.org/ 02 Network - http://www.o2.org/index.php Service Design - http://www.livework.co.uk/home.html �

designers interact between industry and consumers

industry

consumers

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designers can influence how people consume products

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consumers

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design crisis?

source: NASA and UK environment Agency

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Quote source: UK Environment Agency http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/eff/1190084/natural_forces/climate/?version=1&lang=_e Notes: According to the UK government “Climate change due to human activities is the most serious problem facing humanity in the 21st century.” the continued release of greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial and agricultural processes will lead to severe changes in the earth’s climate, some of which will be irreversible Without immediate action, the impacts of climate change would include a rise in sea levels, mass extinctions and migrations, and increased incidence of flooding, droughts and tropical storms. The impact on human populations, particularly those in developing countries, could be disastrous Reducing carbon emissions, particularly from fossil fuels, must be a top international priority. Web resources: RSA Carbon Unlimited - http://www.rsacarbonlimited.org/default.aspa Carbon Sense - http://www.carbonsense.org/ �Carbon Calculator 0- http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/index.html UN Environment Programme (UNEP) http://www.grida.no/products.aspx?m=36 UK environment Agency - http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/eff/1190084/natural_forces/climate/?version=1&lang=_e Climate change information kit - http://unfccc.int/cop3/fccc/climate/factcont.htm Act On CO2 - http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/index.html UK Government climate change pages - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmentandgreenerliving/Greenerlivingaquickguide/Oureffectontheplanet/DG_064393 UK Climate challenge - http://www.climatechallenge.gov.uk/index.html iCount - http://www.icount.org.uk/ The NAG - http://www.thenag.net/ �

source: UNFPA

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Quote source: UNFPA state of world population 2007 Report - http://www.unfpa.org/swp/ Notes: From the report “In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Their future, the future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth. While the world’s urban population grew very rapidly (from 220 million to 2.8 billion) over the 20th century, the next few decades will see an unprecedented scale of urban growth in the developing world. This will be particularly notable in Africa and Asia where the urban population will double between 2000 and 2030: That is, the accumulated urban growth of these two regions during the whole span of history will be duplicated in a single generation. By 2030, the towns and cities of the developing world will make up 80 per cent of urban humanity. Urbanization—the increase in the urban share of total population—is inevitable, but it can also be positive. The current concentration of poverty, slum growth and social disruption in cities does paint a threatening picture: Yet no country in the industrial age has ever achieved significant economic growth without urbanization. Cities concentrate poverty, but they also represent the best hope of escaping it.” Web resources: UNFPA - http://www.unfpa.org/swp/ Metropolis Magazine - http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/ �

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Quote source: New Economics Foundation - http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/uploads/fmq2gmn5w2dn2qemwoor0m4505102007192709.pdf Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aqaba/304927371/ Attribution-NoDerivs License John Parkinson Notes: UK imports from China have risen massively in recent years both in value and volume. In the last year alone, our spending on imports from China rose 18 per cent to £15.6 billion and, more important environmentally, imports rose 10 per cent by weight to a total of just under 6.5 million tonnes. Over the past five years, our spending on, and the weight of imports have risen by over 125 per cent and 114 per cent respectively.7 We are ever more clothing ourselves, furnishing our homes, watching television, listening to music, playing games with our children and even decorating our Christmas trees, courtesy of goods manufactured in China. In 2006, we imported 60,000 tonnes of Christmas decorations alone. Several problems arise from this trend. China is increasingly blamed for its levels of pollution in general, and its rising greenhouse gas emissions in particular.8 But it is demand from countries like the UK which leads to smoke from Chinese factories and power plants entering the atmosphere. As a result, China has become the environmental or ‘carbon’ laundry for the Western world. Because China’s energy mix is more fossil-fuel intensive than those of Europe, Japan or the USA, it also means that outsourcing to China creates more greenhouse gas emissions for each product made. Web resources: �

source: UNFPA

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Quote source: Combined source Cardiff University http://www.brass.cf.ac.uk/uploads/SCP_Move/Wells.pdf - CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/09/14/allabout.hybrid/ - Massachusetts Department of Education – http://www.doe.mass.edu/cte/frameworks/trends_ov/auto.doc Notes: The increased transport demand and the continuing shift of transport demand towards road and air, combined with the increasing use of heavier, more powerful cars and trucks, have offset the improvements in fuel economy of improved engine technology. Reducing the need to travel, improving energy efficiency and logistics are necessary to temper growth in energy consumption by transport. (EEA) Buildings account for more then a quarter of carbon emissions in the UK. (BRE) Web resources: Inhabitat - http://www.inhabitat.com/ 3Phases Renewable Energy - http://www.3phases.com/ The 40% House - http://www.40percent.org.uk/40-percent-research/introduction/ BRE Group - http://www.bre.co.uk/index.jsp REEEP - http://www.reeep.org/ Sustainable Energy Ireland: http://www.sei.ie/ European Environment Agency (EEA) - http://themes.eea.europa.eu/Sectors_and_activities/transport/indicators/consequences/TERM01,2003 UK environment agency - http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/eff/1190084/natural_forces/climate/?version=1&lang=_e �

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Elite 7000“produced at 11 locations

and in five time zones, comprised of 38 components,

parts supplied by Japan, France, China and Malaysia, materials and production in Austria, Sweden, assembly in Philippines and United States, when fully assembled and packaged in Seattle the components have travelled a full 27,880 kilometres, two thirds of the Earth's circumference.

source: SPIEGEL Magazine

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Notes: What are Value Chains? The value chain describes the full range of activities that are required to bring a product from its conception, through its design, its sourced raw materials and intermediate inputs, its marketing, its distribution and its support to the final consumer. In other words, the chain can be seen as incorporating production, exchange, distribution and consumption - from the cradle to the grave of a given product or service. (IDS) Web resources: Spiegel Magazine - http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,398229,00.html IDS - http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/valchnconcep1.html�

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Paraisópolis Favela, Morumbi, Sao Paulo Quote source: UNHABITAT - http://hq.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=542 Notes: Natural disasters have become more frequent and more severe during the last two decades, affecting a number of large cities (see Figure 7). The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reports that, between 1980 and 2000, 75 per cent of the world’s total population lived in areas affected by a natural disaster. In 1999, there were over 700 major natural disasters, causing more than US$100 billion in economic losses and thousands of victims. Over 90 per cent of losses in human life from natural disasters around the world occurred in poor countries. The impacts of GEC, particularly climate-related hazards, disproportionately affect poor and vulnerable people—those who live in slum and squatter settlements on steep hillsides, in poorly drained areas, or in low-lying coastal zones. For example, decades of informal settlements on hillsides surrounding Caracas, Venezuela, contributed to the devastating impact of the December 1999 flash floods and landslides, which reportedly killed 30,000 people and affected nearly half a million others. Hurricane Katrina’s impact on New Orleans shows that developed countries are also not immune tosuch wide-scale disasters. Web resources: Kiva - http://www.kiva.org/�

source: Jan Chipchase, Nokia

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source: Jan Chipchase, Nokia

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I recently returned from Uganda on a study we conducted into the Village Phone – an initiative between Nokia, MTN, Grameen Foundation USA and local micro-finance organisations to extend cellular coverage to remote villages. A village phone kit consisting of a micro-financed loan, a Nokia phone, cable and external antenna can extend coverage from a proximity of 15km of a base station to around 30 kilometers, bringing connectivity to many villages for the first time. So we’ve spent time documenting their existing use and working to create solutions more in tune with their local needs. Photo: Jan Chipchase, Lwamangga, Uganda, 2006�

where does Slow Design fit in?

where do people look for slow?

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what is the intent of Slow Design?

who, what, where, when, how long?

are the contexts for slow local or global?

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local in terms of geography, class, race, sexuality, spirituality�

is it about reducing consumption?

is slow design about finding a deeper logic of consumption?

is it facilitating evolutionary and emergent solutions?

what is the role of designer?

is there a role for a designer?

what is the role of the consumer?

can slow design be comprehensive, holistic, inclusive, reflective, considered………?

Above all it emphasizes slowness in the creation andconsumption of products as a corrective to thefrenetic pace of 21st-century life

Penelope Green

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Principle 1: revealreveal experiences in everyday life that are often missed or forgotten,

Principle 2: expandconsider the real and potential “expressions”

of artifacts

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Principle 3: reflectinduce contemplation and ‘reflective consumption’

Principle 4: engagebe open-source and collaborative

Principle 5: participateencourage users to become active participants in the design process

Principle 6: evolverecognise that richer experiences can emerge from the dynamic maturation of artifacts, environments and systems over time.

SlowLab

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Carolyn Strauss, Alastair Fuad Luke

is slow beautiful?

source: Howies

Simon Heijdens

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Broken white

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Meindertsma

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from farm to wardrobe

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Christien Meindertsma knits rugs with wool from sheep she has met. �

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USE WITH CARE A rattan basket by Alastair Fuad-Luke tips over if it is filled too fast.�

source: DIY Kyoto

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Wattson, by DIYKyoto, shows you how much electricity your home is using at any given moment. Information from a transmitter attached to your electricity meter or fuse box is beamed directly to your wattson which instantly displays your current usage. In fact, for such an ingenious device, wattson is really easy to install and even easier to use and the instructions are completely free of techno-babble. How it works The sensor clip is connected to the transmitter which sends the data wirelessly to the wattson display. The display is portable, so can be located anywhere in your home (up to 100 meters away through air, or 30 meters through walls). The wattson display unit can be positioned anywhere you like in your home , as long as it is within range of the transmitter . We think the best place for it is somewhere in your living room, so you can watch the pulsing coloured lights and keep an eye on your consumption. The sensor clip is connected to the transmitter which sends the data wirelessly to the wattson display. The display is portable, so can be located anywhere in your home (up to 100 meters away through air, or 30 meters through walls). The wattson display unit can be positioned anywhere you like in your home , as long as it is within range of the transmitter . We think the best place for it is somewhere in your living room, so you can watch the pulsing coloured lights and keep an eye on your consumption. Web resources: DIY Kyoto www.diykyoto.com/ �

source: inhabitat, Droog, Jens Praet

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Image source: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/24/milan-2008-droog-design-goes-green/ Notes: Dutch design cooperative Droog Design is comprised of a loosely knit group of designers whose products are unique yet unified in their combination of new innovations and an embedded sense of nostalgia, comfort, and sentimentality few others have achieved. Many people could be tempted to note the use of found or recycled material in Tejo Remy’s Chest of Drawers (shown above) and immediately label them “sustainable design”. But upon closer inspection, it becomes evident that the Dutch designers have written their own, more human-centered manifesto, one that speaks to sustainability but redefines it using a new vocabulary that subscribes more to user engagement than materiality, and favors clever sentimentality over the cutting-edge. And One day paper waste & Elle left over magazines are Jens Praet’s statement pieces designed in reaction to his concerns over document waste. His products are invited to re-enter the spaces in which they were once discarded, as permanent pieces of useful furniture. Web resources: Droog - www.droogdesign.nl/ Jens Praet - http://www.jenspraet.com/jenspraet.html �

source: Droog, Tejo

Remy

source: Droog, Tejo

Remy

source: Raw Nerve -

“Life is Suite”

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MINDFUL DESIGN Raw Nerve, a graphics firm, covered a sofa with imagined stories from its past, bottom �

source: Droog, “Do Hit”

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Philips Design’s CultureScan research program revealed that consumers are increasingly interested in getting back to natural patterns and rhythms. So it took on the traditional alarm clock and designed a more intuitive way to wake up. Think of how you wake-up on the weekends: gradually, pleasantly, and with an increasing awareness of light. As it turns out, waking up with light is a deeply rooted biological process that activates certain hormones and neurotransmitters—waking us slowly and naturally. When jarred awake by a standard alarm clock, we end up feeling more sluggish, drowsy and less alert throughout the day.�

source: Shi Yuan

source: Designboom

where to for design practice, education, policy?

No, Watson, this was not done by accident, but bydesign.

SHERLOCK HOLMES (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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