Change Design & EcoDesign Foundation News
Name Change & Merger
Its official: The EcoDesign Foundation has changed its name to Change Design
and is now a project of the Society for Responsible Design. Hooray! The changeover
will be gradual: we'll stay on the EDF website for another couple of months.
Change Design is launching itself with ChangeX
2004: see the website for exhibition and event details.
Change Design Student Network
Still in its infancy, the student network is evolving into 'a subversive,
avant-garde design movement of force'. In the pipeline: a rethink of design
as we know it plus events, info, networks, forums and showcases for budding
young sustainable designers. Besides hatching plots to overthrow designer
chic, we've been concentrating on strengthening our web and campus presence.
Head to the membership page if you'd like to be involved or contact Tara.
The next big thing on the horizon after ChangeX is Change Design Week to coincide
with Sydeny Design Week in August. The organising committe is about to be
formed so please feel free to get in on the act.
Rebriefing Project Update
Abby Mellick's Rebriefing
project is being re-briefed - Abby is reformulating the task to drum up some
research assistance from students to help out with this high priority project.
If you are interested in helping us canvass successful sustainable designers
and architects in Australia (an excellent networking exercise), please contact
us. If as a practicing designer, you have managed to convince clients
to take the sustainable option, we'd love to hear from you, too.
The Limits to Sharing Project Update
Change Designer Gerard Kool has left us to return to Delft University, the
Netherlands, leaving behind his research paper on Tool
Libraries in Australia. The paper is a preliminary probe into the potential
for tool sharing - the types of tools most likely to be shared, the extent
of current sharing and attitudinal barriers facing tool sharing. Dr. Mariano
Ramirez (Industrial Design, UNSW) is continuing research in this area and
Warren McClaren from The Bower is pursuing the options for a tool library
facility in Marrickville. The
Limits to Sharing Project Page.
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is the Newsletter of Change
Design, the student branch of the
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Last Updated April 2004