CFP: Designing for a Sustainable Future, Oct 27, Berkeley, Workshop at Creativity & Cognition 09 - DL Sept 21

Can Design help meet our present needs without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own?

** Submit your Statement of Interest by Sept 2nd to qualify for early
registration, or by Sept 21st for standard registration**

http://sites.google.com/site/designsustainability/

DESIGNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE is a day devoted to creating,
exploring, and applying sustainable system design ideas, methods, and
principles to holistic, software-based solutions. It aims to seed the
creative thought-leadership necessary to conceive of courageous and
radical redefinitions of our live & work experiences towards a
sustainable future.

Leaders in the field will speak throughout the day, to help facilitate
our workshop discussions and exercises that we hope will challenge and
inspire you. By the end of the day you will generate a design agenda
that will describe the responsibilities we bear, cradle to cradle, for
what we choose to make.

We welcome participants from industry, government/NGO/NPOs, and
academia, who are involved with strategy, planning, ideation,
ethnography, synthesis, and/or design, dealing with issues of
Sustainability - whether in theory or in practice.

Topics will ultimately be chosen by you, but candidates include the
following:

- Sustainable Design Theory and Practice. What concepts, practices,
ethics, principles, methods, and case studies can we share that
demonstrate effective and practical ecologic design work? What could a
clear and coherent framework of discourse look like for the field of
Sustainable Design? How do we represent the Future (rather than 'just'
the User)?
- Natural Resources. How must our assumptions and practices change to
make responsible use of energy, water, and precious materials? How can
the results of our design work encourage behaviors that help preserve
and prevent waste and pollution?
- Society. How can our practices - and our designs - encourage
meaningful human interaction and correct issues of social disparity?
- Business. How can we amplify intelligence and divert bad decisions as
we collaborate with executives, managers, and others to design and
operate businesses that truly serve a triple bottom line?
- Healthcare. How can our research, synthesis, and design efforts help
create a sensible healthcare system that provides everyone with the best
care available, that improves treatment outcomes, and that drives costs
downward?
- Food. How can our work ensure that everyone benefits from agriculture,
that our land remains bountiful, that people are well-nourished, and
that the health of ecosystems aren't imperiled in the process?
- Transportation. What can transportation systems, services, and
products yield greater efficiencies, comfort, and economy?

PARTICIPATE!

http://sites.google.com/site/designsustainability/participate

If these challenges interest you, and you'd like to contribute to the
growing intellectual commons on sustainable design, please submit your
statement of interest by Sept 2nd to qualify for the early registration
deadline, or at the latest by Sept 21st for standard registration.

The workshop takes place all day on October 27, 2009, during the
Creativity & Cognition '09 Conference in Berkeley, CA.

THE ORGANIZERS

http://sites.google.com/site/designsustainability/organizers

Daniela Busse, Brinda Dalal, Eli Blevis, David Fore, Sally Kennedy
Lawler, Catherine Howard, and Lara Lee.