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Symposium Research: February 2009

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009. For my job, I was asked to compile a benchmark report on developments within the field of interaction design related to sustainability. Thus, I started this blog in order to keep my notes and findings organized, to structure my thoughts, and to motivate me to get things down on "paper". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Biomimicry - Janine Benyus. In the Bubble - John Thackara. Sustainability by Design - John Ehrenfeld. The Design of Everyday Life - Elizabeth Shove.

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Symposium Research: March 2009

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. I am organizing a workshop with John Ehrenfeld, big man of Industrial Ecology. And author of Sustainability by Design. For our research program (Sustainable Living and working). His book can be seen lying on any given desk at the university and everyone is running around chanting the mantra, "having not being.having not being." He is visiting for a week from the States and will also be giving one of the top 10 lectures for our 40th Jubilee. Monday, March 30, 2009. He, himself is ...

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Symposium Research: Biomimicry

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009. I finally finished reading Biomimicry. By Jean Benyus. I had a hard time getting through some of the denser chapters, i.e. computing, and had to think back to biology courses I took in my bachelors, but it was worth the effort. Even though the book was first published in 1997, almost everything written is still important/relevant in today's context. I am looking forward to her next book. Check out her TED talk. Read an excerpt here. Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman.

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Symposium Research: Workshop with Prof. John Ehrenfeld

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Sunday, April 26, 2009. Workshop with Prof. John Ehrenfeld. As I mentioned earlier,. I organized a workshop with our workgroup, sustainable living and working. I thought the workshop yielded pretty nice results, especially during the mind mapping session. The group was a mix of people both familiar and unfamiliar with the ideas presented in Sustainability by Design. 1 Introduction Prof. John Ehrenfeld. 1 Introduction Prof. John Ehrenfeld. Our current culture is one about having, about never being satisfi...

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Symposium Research: Contextmapping Symposium

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Thursday, May 14, 2009. Was held yesterday in celebration of 5 years of contextmapping and the graduation of the first PhD ever in the field. The program lineup consisted of two talks by Liz Sanders (Make Tools) and by Jacob Burr (U. Southern Denmark) and ten Pecha Kucha style talks by recent graduates deploying contextmapping techniques in practice. Below is a short summary of "the highlights" of the lectures (in my opinion). The lectures should become available online at some point on collegarama.

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Symposium Research: Sustainability in HCI, Ubicomp, etc.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Sustainability in HCI, Ubicomp, etc. I made a quick survey of several HCI and Ubicomp papers in order to summarize the main topics and research questions, regarding sustainability, that have been considered the most important in the interaction design community. In an alternate organizational scheme. Where sustainability is considered as a part of material design process (use, re-use, reduction, and recycling). Ie how can we move away from a model of obsolescence in the IT field?

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Symposium Research: April 2009

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Sunday, April 26, 2009. Workshop with Prof. John Ehrenfeld. As I mentioned earlier,. I organized a workshop with our workgroup, sustainable living and working. I thought the workshop yielded pretty nice results, especially during the mind mapping session. The group was a mix of people both familiar and unfamiliar with the ideas presented in Sustainability by Design. 1 Introduction Prof. John Ehrenfeld. 1 Introduction Prof. John Ehrenfeld. Our current culture is one about having, about never being satisfi...

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Symposium Research: Pre-invitation flyer

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009. I finally finished the pre-invitation for our symposium. Today Hopefully, it will be printed by tomorrow and I can start stuffing envelopes. After many delays and problems with graphic designers. in the end it's done and I even learned some photoshop tricks (rays of light) in making it. The globe and sun are not mine.Here it is:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Biomimicry - Janine Benyus. In the Bubble - John Thackara. Sustainability by Design - John Ehrenfeld.

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Symposium Research: Scavenger-innovator

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Sent me a link to an article. On John Thackara’s Doors of Perception blog. The article was about how design practice and education has to undergo a paradigm shift, and three steps to achieve this. Although I did not totally agree with his three steps (especially not the affirmation that new language is needed – why is there always so much emphasis on semantics? One quote I found very inspiring and relevant was:. Offer them your scavenger-innovator. Biomimicry - Janine Benyus.