Tag: responsibility


PARK

Norms, simple, clear and agreed…


PARK, August 17th, 2010

… are now the way forward in design management!

Over the past decade, the practice of design management has become more professionalised. Corporate boards take leaders of design functions seriously. Boards, however, affirm top design managers informally. In the recruitment of design managers, they don’t have a whole lot of evidence to go on, apart from candidate résumés and war stories. Introducing some sensible norms for design management practice would help designers continue the process of professionalisation into the next decade.

The way design managers do their work and succeed in it cannot be left at the level of oral …

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Marjolein de Wilde

Stop making excuses, start acting responsible!


Marjolein de Wilde, August 5th, 2010

We need to change our 1950’s mindset where people were totally enchanted about “better living through more consumption”. www.thestoryofstuff.com

Design has become the flagship of many companies and it is being hyped to sell more products within the B2C market as well as in the B2B market. But in these days where sustainability is a major topic, we cannot justify design relevance with the fact that we thereby sell more products. There is definitely a challenge for the design community to ensure creation of sustainable design. To address the topic more holistically I’d rather talk about responsible design: design that …

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PARK

Green design requires the right kind of measurement, not holier-than-thou sentiment!


PARK, May 28th, 2010

When they come to deal with sustainability issues, design people tend to swing between two extremes. On the one hand, being responsible citizens, they worry greatly about their personal ‘carbon footprint’, and consult one of the 300,000 carbon and footprint counters and calculators that are today available on the Web.

However, perhaps because these different carbon counters always give conflicting results, design people also tend to drop all quantitative considerations when turning out a new, oh-so-sustainable design. Instead, they become idealistic and emotional, and are emphatic that their mission is to save the planet through design. Numbers are nowhere …

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