Mais importante evento científico da América do Sul sobre design sustentável, o Simpósio Internacional sobre Design Sustentável (ISSD), organizado em conjunto com o Simpósio Brasileiro de Design Sustentável (SBDS), já tem data programada: dias 5 e 6 novembro, na Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, em São Paulo.O evento, que já conta com quatro palestrantes estrangeiros confirmados, visa reunir design profissionais, acadêmicos, governo e indústria para discutir conceitos, ferramentas e metodologias sobre a concepção contribuição para uma sociedade mais sustentável. Simpósio tem o apoio do Programa Ambiental das Nações Unidas (UNEP), da Associação de Ensino e Pesquisa de Nível Superior de Design do Brasil (AEND Brasil) e da Rede Brasil de Design Sustentável. A coordenação científica é do professor Aguinaldo dos Santos, da Universidade Federal do Paraná.
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Jan Carel Diehl
Jan Carel Diehl M.Sc. (1969) after finishing his study in Industrial Design Engineering he worked several years as consultant in Ecodesign. In his present position he is assistant professor for the Design for Sustainability (DfS) program at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
Within the DfS program he is managing the international projects on sustainable product innovation especially in emerging markets. The main focus of his research is the know-how transfer and implementation of sustainable product innovation into an international context. In addition his research has a special interest in cultural differences in product design and developing products for the so called "Base of the Pyramid (BoP)". Next to his position at the TU Delft he is consultant for UNIDO and UNEP and invited lecturer at several international universities. He is co-author of the UNEP Design for Sustainability (D4S) manual for Developing Economies (D4S EE).
John Thackara
John Thackara is a symposiarch who designs events, projects, and organizations. He is also the Director of Doors of Perception (Doors), a design futures network with offices in Amsterdam and Bangalore. Founded as a conference in 1993, Doors now connects together a worldwide network of visionary designers, thinkers, and grassroots innovators. This unique community of practice is inspired by two related questions: "we know what new technology can do, but what is it for?" and, how do we want to live?.To explore these questions in context, John Thackara organises collaborative innovation projects in which designers, together with grassroots innovators and citizens, develop new service concepts and prototypes in real locations. The results are published on an award-winning website, and discussed at the celebrated Doors of Perception conference. Current clients include Schiphol Airport, Europe's High Speed Train Network, the administration of Hong Kong, the University of Amsterdam, a regional development agency in the UK, and a national childrens hospital.Doors also helps cities and regions build new institutions that enable designers, other specialists, and citizens, to learn and work together in new ways. These design institutions focus not on discrete products, or buildings, but on next-generation services that improve the ways we live in daily life. John Thackara was on the the team that set up Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, in Italy - a research centre described in Panorama as “one of the few schools in Italy that produces intelligence and innovation.A former journalist and publisher, John was the first Director (1993-1999) of the Netherlands Design Institute. He is a member of the Virtual Platform, a club of research institutes which advises the Dutch government; he also sits on expert groups advising the European Commission on its innovation policy, and was on the coordinating group, responsible for vision building, of Convivio - the EU network for social computing.John Thackara studied philosophy and journalism in England before working in book publishing in New York. He edited Design magazine for five years, was later Modern Culture Editor of Harpers & Queen, and was design correspondent of The Guardian. In 1987 he set up Design Analysis International (DAI), a conference and exhibition company with offices in London and Tokyo. DAI organised events at the Pompidou Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, Axis Gallery in Tokyo, and other venues. From 1989-1992 John was Director of Research at the Royal College of Art, and was twice chairman of the European Design Summit.Among John's 12 books are Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object (1987), and Lost in Space: A Traveller’s tale (1995). His next book, In the Bubble: Designing In A Complex World, will be published by MIT Press (as its lead title) in Spring 2005. He has lectured in more than forty countries.Fast Company described John Thackara as "a design guru, critic and business provocateur". For the Wall Street Journal, he "has established a global reputation as a cutting edge design expert". Wired called him a “a design luminary", and the Economic Times of India noted his "brilliant insights into the internet and sustainability".
Mugendi M'Rithaa
Mugendi M'Rithaa teaches at the Department of Industrial Design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town.He has previously lectured in Kenya and Botswana.He was educated in Kenya, thUSA, India, and South Africa. Mugendi is passionate about various expressions of socially (responsive and) responsible design, including DesignbyAll/ Participatory Design; DesignforAll/ Universal Design; DesignforDevelopment; and Designforustainability.
Carlo Vezzoli
For 15 years he has been researching and teaching on design for sustainability. At the Politecnico di Milano University he is professor of Design for Sustainability, and director of the Research Unit Design and system Innovation for Sustainability. Among others projects he is co-ordinator of the Learning Network on Sustainability (LeNS, www.lens.polimi.it) funded by the Asia Link Programme, European Commission. Most recent published book is Design for Environmental Sustainability (London: Springer, 2008).
