Reform Conference 08
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- Category: Planning & Design
Sustainability is a topical subject in contemporary society, so often
however the rhetoric is overwhelming and knowing how to integrate it
into our professional lives appears difficult.
The ReForm 2008 Conference on Tuesday 4th November (run as
part of Design Week Ireland 2008) offers designers (both professional
and student) and those working in the design realm, the opportunity to
explore new concepts and to learn how to implement sustainability
principles into their daily practice. The parallel conferences will be held in IT Carlow and the Cork IT
Lectures from a variety of experts will be linked with participatory
workshops where pragmatic tools and skills will be demonstrated. The
topics will include Cradle to Cradle thinking for designers and
business, Sustainable Product Design Innovation & Sustainable
Development for the Cork Docklands.
Parallel sessions will be held in both IT Carlow and the Cork IT where the expert speakers will link in via video conferencing, this allows us to not only share the knowledge but also to bring experts closer without the negative ecological impact.
The IT Carlow venue will focus on Sustainable Product Design, Innovation
and Product Service Systems
The Cork IT venue will focus on Sustainable Architecture/Interior
Architecture and the Sustainable Development of the Cork Docklands.
It is intended that the mix of design disciplines will facilitate cross
disciplinary collaboration and give designers and business people the
opportunity to look at how sustainability thinking can be a core part of
their practice.
Keynote Speaker (By Video link)
Michael Braungart www.braungart.com
PROF. DR. MICHAEL BRAUNGART has been a professor of Process Engineering
at Universität Lüneburg (Germany) since 1994, and he is also serving as
director of an interdisciplinary materials flow management masters
program. He is the scientific director of EPEA International
Umweltforschung GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), which was founded in 1987 and
co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) in
Charlottesville, Virginia. He co-founded the Hamburger Umwelt Insitute
(HUI) in 1989, as well. These organizations share a common set of values
that embrace intelligent, aesthetic and eco-effective design and seek to
optimize products with the Cradle to Cradle framework. Through these
activities, Professor Braungart has developed tools to design
eco-effective products and business systems and has worked with a number
of organizations and companies in a range of industries. He has accepted
a visiting professorship at the Darden School of Business, lecturing on
such topics as eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness, Cradle-to-Cradle
design and Intelligent Materials Pooling, and he continues to teach at
universities all over the world.
Other keynote speakers Include:
At IT Carlow:
Tim Allen- Locus Research (New Zealand) www.locusresearch.com
Ryder Meggitt- Element Zero Six (Scotland) www.elementzerosix.co.uk
Jonathan Crinion- holistic design ecology (UK)
www.holisticdesignecology.org
At Cork IT:
Brian O'Brien- Solearth Architects www.solearth.com
Jim Harrisson- on Curitiba, Brazil
Roddy Hogan -Cork Docklands www.corkdocklands.ie
To Book email :
Cork IT- Orla Flynn This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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