Design 21: Social Design Network

From the foot to the nervous system, we've extended every aspect of our physical bodies. Maybe not as simple as an ouroboros circling back around, but more like spiraling to the next level, is the green movement perhaps a desire or need to extend the Earth?

1. What is the single most overlooked issue that designers face today?

2. How can design schools/programs incorporate sustainable design education into their curriculum? (i.e. What do students need to know?)

3. We are a culture obsessed with consumption, it's no surprise that the design process itself has become quite inefficient (waste, pollution, obsolescence, etc.). How can the way we work have a positive impact on society's demand for more goods?

4. How should designers working for social good approach projects in the luxury/hi-tech markets?

Since publishing the article in 2007, what headway has been made, to bring designers and other participants together to share knowledge and advance the environmental movement as a team as apposed to as competitors? What still remains to be done? Also, how did you get authentic participation, interest, and collaboration as apposed to having people sign up for an initiative because of the PR appeal (or other indirect incentives)? Or have people begun to get more interested after having signed up with your organization? Also, how do you manage the participation of 170,000 plus participants? Are there any strategies that you have learned that others could benefit from in terms of organizing similar groups (i.e. with the focus on positive interaction and contributing to the world)? Have you noticed any demographic disparities or trends with regards to who gets involved and achieves their goals within this project?

If I have any further questions, I shall post them here as well. Thank you!

How did you determine the five guidelines that adopters must commit to?

Have you seen people's design habits and choices shift due to them becoming an adopter?

Many problems in the world is caused by our political and social system that benefits first the capital rather than social.

It means the workers will never have the same life quality of your bosses.

1 - How could designers help to improve equality? our agencys could have a system more correct?

2 - What is the social function of design? including graphic, digital, product, etc.

1) Can design contribute to improving public education/youth-learning, above and beyond architectural innovation?

2) Can design assist in playfully connecting new technologies (gaming/internet) to old technologies (books/writing) within schools? Right now, they are both used in arbitrary ways - depending on the curriculum - but not self-consciously designed as part of the learning environment. Often, educators feel that one is antagonistic to the other - an artificial opposition.

3) Would design-thinkers have a role to play in conceiving the future of arts in schools? I.e., prototyping the school day, by prototyping the human interaction design of the school day by including the arts (theater, dance, music, media, visual art, etc.)? This will create varied scenarios based on the powerful arts resources in particular locales/communities.