Planning Workshop: Sustainability
Description
Instructor
JohnPaul Kusz
Exploring/Designing "Sustainable" Solutions
"Sustainable" Fulfillment – Meeting Needs, Satisfying Wants
Participants will examine current (real-world) product, business and system models in selected sectors.
They will assess the strengths and weaknesses of these as they relate to their long-term economic viability, environmental integrity and their impacts on society.
Teams will further explore alternative models and develop concepts and scenarios that move to optimize and balance returns to the environment, the economy, and society...
Emphasis on the power of Design to change mental models and the behavior of the user/consumer through engagement, dialogue and innovation...
This year's Workshop:
Weeks 1 -4
An exploration of consciousness and our awareness about the current situation and our assumptions (What we know and/or don’t know) about the new realities we are facing related to:
• Population
(Demographics - 100% Marker Share, Scale/Speed/Scope)
• Resource Use/Depletion
(Renewable, Non-renewable – Utility to Replacement Ratio, etc…)
• Energy Availability/Costs
(Bio-fuels, Hydrogen, Geothermal, Wind/Air)
• Climate Change – Challenges and Opportunities
(Adaptation, Mitigation, Restoration)
• Capital – Natural, Human, Physical and Financial
How is Design affected by these realities?
How does Design affect these realities?
An overview of Strategies related to:
• Complexity – Interface of two complex systems - both natural systems and social systems.
• Place – primarily cities (many of them "mega-cities" of 10,000,000 or more)
• Policy - (The Soft Infrastructure) People Changing People in a living dialogue that can be optimized through "Top-Down" "Bottom-Up" and/or "Middle-Out" mechanisms.
• Business Models – focus on the creation of beneficial models of organizing how we live, commute, learn, and recreate. These are complex, self-organizing, unpredictable and NOT controllable.
How do we Design for these realities?
Selected Readings…
Weeks 5-12
Team development…
Objectives:
• Exploration of targets of opportunity for Product/Business/System improvement
• Selection of defined project related to the workshop…
Strategies:
• Timeline and Trajectory Analysis
• expanded Total Asset Management (eTAM) of current business models
Comprehensive Enterprise Models (CEM)...
• Building on and improving Best Practices (research). This exploration will pursue thoughts/questions, such as:
What's working today? Where?/ Why?
What's not?
What should we keep doing?
What should we stop doing?
What should we start doing?
Weeks 13-16
Preliminary Project Presentation…
Cross Team Critique and Enhancement of project concepts.
Team Assessment
Readings Report and Presentation
Final Presentation
