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Next up is climate academic Kevin Anderson, who stresses “retrofit, repair, reuse and repurpose” is far more important than “new design”. #DesignForPlanet
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Designers love “stuff”, Bell says, so the challenge is listening to people with different views to us and find “new ways of understanding ‘stuff’”.
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Day two of #DesignForPlanet — Leonie Bell, director of @VADundee, kicks off with a talk on championing “diverse, dynamic and democratic” design. Follow today’s action here and on the website.
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From disappearing packages to expandable baby shoes, check out some future-facing grad projects: bit.ly/3HaPrno
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Kicking off #DesignforPlanet this afternoon is @mrmacleod, talking about consumer offboarding and how designers should be thinking about what happens to their products at the end of its life - what he calls “endineering”
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In a chat with economist Kate Raworth, architect and designer Indy Johar says “we can’t built new things without remaking ourselves”. For this reason, he says designers need to look at how their operations function — from payment structures to brief questioning.
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17-year-old environmental activist Anita Okunde is kicking things off: “The climate crisis is a crisis of mass production.” #DesignforPlanet
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#DesignforPlanet kicks off today at V&A Dundee. Follow proceedings with us here and on the website.
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Design Week is in Scotland this week on the ground with the Design Council — first up is the Binn Ecopark, where @tmsophie is leading a talk on waste and design #DesignforPlanet
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Join us as Design Week heads to Scotland during week two of #COP26 to see what designers can do in the fight against climate crisis. We’ll be reporting from @designcouncil’s Design for Planet festival and kicking off our Design, Climate, Action series: bit.ly/3GYj4Z2
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Design Week is heading to Scotland next week to see how the design industry can rally round it's biggest challenge yet: bit.ly/3GYj4Z2
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