Casey, founder and Executive Director of the Designers Accord, works with organizations all over the world to create positive social and environmental impact. She has been named a "Guru you should know" by Fortune magazine, a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and a "Master of Design" by Fast Company.[i tried to catch most of her key points, but things were moving rather quickly. i'll look for an official post of her presentation later...]- the sum is more than the parts
- design trap: when you design for the symptom rather than the problem. when will we stop thinking that less bad is good?
- there is no such thing as a side effect. The Global Taco Shed by ACC (art center college) architecture students.
- creating the right measurement of success. Gross National Product (GNP) is supposed to be our national indicator of prosperity. however, it has nothing to do with health and equality and intelligence, etc. in fact, it often works out of synch and it's full of inconsistencies. thinking of ways to ask nature for new kinds of solutions. Ecological Performance Standards.
- selecting the correct lever for change. Naked Pizza project (she's consulting for). Sometimes, the correct lever may be totally counterintuitive to us.
- enabling new models by recognizing the relationship between...? (urg, slides move too fast) Dana Meadows: systems educator. you can't expect a different behavior from the system without considering its structure, even if you swap an element from the system (i.e. Obama).
- issue-attention cycle: degree of awareness is inversely correlated to the degree of productive....? when people opt out because they believe there's enought critical mass that someone else is taking care of it.
- a system is a collection of elements and interconnections that are highly organized to achieve...goal...? interactive community is precisely the community to connect all the current parts, to act/serve as the the bridges; "we" are the product desginers, the architects, the communicators all wrapped up into one. "every profession bears the responsibilty to undersand the circumstances that engage its existence." - robert gutman (architecture sociologist)interactive community doesn't have the luxury of deciding whether or not we're going to do this (be the bridge/s). and, this is the time to do it.
- design trap: when you design for the symptom rather than the problem. when will we stop thinking that less bad is good?
- there is no such thing as a side effect. The Global Taco Shed by ACC (art center college) architecture students.
- creating the right measurement of success. Gross National Product (GNP) is supposed to be our national indicator of prosperity. however, it has nothing to do with health and equality and intelligence, etc. in fact, it often works out of synch and it's full of inconsistencies. thinking of ways to ask nature for new kinds of solutions. Ecological Performance Standards.
- selecting the correct lever for change. Naked Pizza project (she's consulting for). Sometimes, the correct lever may be totally counterintuitive to us.
- enabling new models by recognizing the relationship between...? (urg, slides move too fast) Dana Meadows: systems educator. you can't expect a different behavior from the system without considering its structure, even if you swap an element from the system (i.e. Obama).
- issue-attention cycle: degree of awareness is inversely correlated to the degree of productive....? when people opt out because they believe there's enought critical mass that someone else is taking care of it.
- a system is a collection of elements and interconnections that are highly organized to achieve...goal...? interactive community is precisely the community to connect all the current parts, to act/serve as the the bridges; "we" are the product desginers, the architects, the communicators all wrapped up into one. "every profession bears the responsibilty to undersand the circumstances that engage its existence." - robert gutman (architecture sociologist)interactive community doesn't have the luxury of deciding whether or not we're going to do this (be the bridge/s). and, this is the time to do it.
