Discuss and learn about the progress design is making on building capacity and taking responsibility for its impact on the environment.
Last year's panel "How to make sustainability service design's business?" started a much needed conversation on the practicalities of service designers taking action on the environmental sustainability agenda. This panel is set to become an annual fixture for the Service Design Fringe Festival, creating a space to discuss the progress design is making on building capacity and taking responsibility for its impact on the environment.
The consequences of COVID-19 on public health and the economy could have overshadowed the challenges faced by the environment, such as biodiversity loss, part of the underlying cause of the pandemic. However, sustainability is still firmly on the agenda.
Where does design fit into all of this?
What can we do to embed sustainability in everything we do and still work successfully with clients?
What more should design to do to demonstrate its commitment to the environmental agenda?
How might our skills and tools change when the design is life-centered?
Prep
Please, before you join the discussion plan a short reading session. We will send you a blog post to prep you for this event.
Agenda
10:00 - 11:00 Panel discussion
11: 00 - 11:30 Q&A
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 13:00 Showcases and lightning talks introduced by Chrissy Levett (Creative Conscience)
Speakers
In 2019 Rob organised and sat on the panel as an expert on using human-centred-design (and increasingly life-centred-design) to tackle environmental sustainability and its mutually inclusive relationship social impact. Rob’s career has seen him work in product and packaging and for the last eight years of service design, across a range of challenges such as the circular economy, climate change, and the social impacts of neurodiversity.
In his current position at the Satellite Applications Catapult, he leads design projects with the Agriculture value stream to tackle some of the biggest global challenges, such as climate resilience of farmers in emerging economies and deforestation in South America. Rob also holds a position as Design Specialist with the Design Council, where he initiated work to support the environmental capability building of the design industry.
As a Head of Programmes for the Growth and Innovation Team she oversees strategy and delivery of our Design in the Public Sector and Public Service Innovation programmes. All of the programmes aim to put the needs of people at the heart of products and processes; addressing some of the toughest challenges which face our society.
With experience in the fields of service design, project delivery and organisational development she is currently exploring the vast area of sustainability & design to craft engaging service experiences that are better for people and planet. Lilli is also part of Operation Green Fist, a pragmatic internal project with the ambition to incorporate sustainability into everything Idean do as an agency.
Co-Founder of Climate Labs, a multidisciplinary design consultancy that focuses on design for sustainability.
Ahsan is responsible for discovering, strategising and innovating digital products and services for the European finance and energy sector. Supporting and running Design Sprints with a focus on sustainability and behavioural insights for the Climate Crisis.
He also consults in the voluntary and charity sector for Words of Colour and IAAAE focusing on design for good, creating real value through strategic solutions for positive impact.
Director at world class Sustainable Innovation and Design consultancy (Reboot Innovation). He has 25 years of experience in helping create world-first and worlds greenest projects for world-leading organisations.
Chris still believes we can design a better, more sustainable world together!
