SVA PoD
Designing for Climate Action
Join me and my students from SVA’s Products of Design Program at Design for Climate Action @svaPoD for an evening of open innovation. Inspire a group of students who have the skills we need to start pushing the right levers of change (systems thinking, design, programming, communications, everything that I should have learned in grad school). Wednesday, September 30th, in NYC. Get Tickets Here ($10). Event Description: Designing Climate Action Read More
Better by Measure Class at SVA’s Products of Design
Rebecca Silver and I are evolving our Products of Design experiment. From… teaching sustainable design as a silo… to teaching social, civic, and environmental design into startups and entrepreneurship. Manifesto: Better by Measure: Becoming Better by Measure (Class 1, SVA Products of Design 2014) from Rebecca Silver Syllabus below: Better by Measure FALL 2014, SVA, PRODUCTS OF DESIGN Shaping new business models to address environmental outcomes, social justice, and Read More
LifeCycles and Flows at SVA PoD
Teaching Lifecycles and Flows with Rebecca Silver at SVA’s Products of Design – product backstories, systems thinking, life cycle assessment. Or, environmental accounting, taught to design students. With stunning results – Here is Emi Yasaka’s assessment of her REI backback
Read MoreProducts of Design: Lifecycle and Flows
Happy to be at the inaugural second year for Products of Design at SVA. Following through on a promise many years ago to Allan Chochinov, I’ll be teaching Lifecycle and Flows with Rebecca Silver, and adapting a systems thinking approach to product backstories. Lifecycle and Flows will expose students to the hidden forces behind how consumer objects are made. Systems Thinking, Life Cycle Analysis, and Stakeholder Management Theory will be used as Read More
So, You Need a Letter of Recommendation
Dear former students and employees. I’d be delighted to write you a letter of recommendation. I’ll need you to do some work first. First – make sure this is not a last-minute exercise. I’ll need a few days for synthesis, and I frequently travel, so make sure you’re giving me a minimum of a week between request and due date, and note you may still get me in a busy Read More