Julian Bleecker - Near Future Lab

Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and the Near Future Laboratory where he investigates emerging social practices around new networked interaction rituals. His focus is on hands-on design and prototyping as a way to raise questions about commonly held assumptions about digital media and digital devices so as to explore possibilities for innovation.

Design Fiction: A short slideshow on design, science, fact and fiction

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For more of Julian's presentations visit the below link...

http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/presentations/

Liftfrance09: John Thackara

John Thackara, who is director of Doors of Perception, gives a provocative talk about the role of design in finding solutions to the ecological crisis. After inviting us to avoid terms such as "future" or "sustainable" as they maintain a certain distance to the problem we face, he shows a rich set of projects he participated in. He makes the important point that the resources to be put in place already exist and that they might not necessitates complex technological developments.

Liftfrance09: John Thackara from Lift Conference on Vimeo.

Date: 20/06/2009, english Distributed by Tubemogul.

lift

is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them.

How to Become a Better Manager … By Thinking Like a Designer

Interview by Jimmy Guterman

Presentation experts Nancy Duarte and Garr Reynolds help world-renowned executives, politicians and thought leaders deliver stronger presentations. Here they reveal how to influence and persuade in a different way, regardless of whether you ever have to communicate via PowerPoint.

smallFISH

Bringing design students and small local business together, resulting in affordable design and real world experience for students.

Smallfish Presentation

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By Design (NYT)

Allison Arieff is editor at large for Sunset, and the former editor in chief of Dwell magazine. She is co-author of the books “Prefab” and "Trailer Travel," and the editor of many books on design and popular culture, including “Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht” and “Cheap Hotels.” Ms. Arieff lives in San Francisco.

Ty Unnos (house in a night)

Partly coming from the foothills of Snowdonia myself this project is close to my heart. The Ty Unnos has a fantastic cultural legacy for the Welsh but it also is a fantastic potential in the sustainable development of Welsh housing and woodland/ecological management.

Local grown materials put to use in a local cultural context!

The assembly/construction of the buildings makes for very interesting development into the research on DIY design; the unskilled part design/production of commodities, from products to buildings. This is the designer/architect developing the service and structure from where the end-user develops or creates.

I hope the Ty Unnos project develops and receives the support and accolade a project of this sort requires.

Sustainable Development (local people, local materials, local design)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8004692.stm

nef

Continuing on from the Design Connexity conference (EAD 2009) with Rachel Cooper’s paper on Wellbeing and the key note speech by Phillips’ Josephine Green introducing ISEW (Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare) here is nef, an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being.

LooWatt by Virginia Gardiner