Sustainability Deep Dive 2020
June 3-5, 2020
Virtual Event
Decades of global human activity and the expanding greenhouse effect have created a situation that needs to be addressed with more urgency than ever. We think design can help. Action must be taken today if we have any hope of creating paths forward to a sustainable future.
The Sustainability Deep Dive 2020 was a virtual event spanning three days. It featured a comprehensive mix of expert presentations and skill-building sessions meant to produce a wellspring of innovative ideas and possibilities that are desperately needed to bring about change.
Speakers
Sustainability Provocateur
ATLASON
dreams • design + life
Autodesk
IDEO
Innovation Consultant
Material ConneXion
GSK
Loop
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Biomimicry 3.8
Unstoppable Conversations
Goldner Sustainability Cons.
Autodesk
Lime
Filmmaker
Pratt Institute
OpenIDEO
Mormedi
Matrix4
Intersection-Inc.
Grow
Sherwin-Williams
New Futures Lab
Mindesk
3Designs
Good Future Design Alliance
Matrix4
IDEO
Mormedi
Viemeister Industries
iFix It
1% for the Planet
CAKE
Day 1 - Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Uncover the top-down considerations needed to define a Sustainable, Circular Design, or Zero Waste company-wide initiative. Discover the implications of the proposed Green New Deal (GND) on the business of design and decide which of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainability Development Goals (UNSDGs) you or your company should focus on. Learn about directives such as REACH, RoHS, WEEE, ELV, Well, GreenStar, and LEED; and how, through cross-pollination, these and other cradle-to-cradle strategies could be grouped together and leveraged in your industry. Actualizing these opportunities can lead to much-needed cultural development at your company and sustainable business model paradigm shifts, ensuring a strong triple bottom line!
Presenters from companies and organizations leading the industry share their latest insights to help you develop your own sustainable design strategy going forward. These sessions are designed to instill actionable knowledge and empower industrial designers at every experience level, from recent college graduates all the way up to C-suite seasoned professionals.
Day 2 - Thurday, June 4, 2020
The concept of Process will be broken out into different levels of content around materiality, environmentally-conscious manufacturing processes, eco-design toolkits, guides, and technology that you can take with you and apply in your company for Sustainability, Circular Design, or Zero Waste. This program block is curated to develop the kind of first-hand knowledge that will empower the industrial designer. You can expect to learn about new sustainable materials, bioplastics and mycelium, and their latest industrial applications. Participate in panel discussions on various eco-design and LCA tools, as well on debates on the merits of OKALA, different eco-conscious manufacturing and prototyping processes. Each presentation in this program block is designed to translate into real-time professional output, so you can immediately take the best practices you’ve learned back to your company and generate sustainable process innovation.
Day 3 - Friday, June 5, 2020
Learn from a comprehensive showcase of real examples of sustainable products that skillfully blur the boundaries between singular product and connected experience. As we are living in the Age of the Experience, we can no longer design in isolation. The product, the service, and the experience have to be green! Expect to hear inspiring eco-design success stories where sustainability is no longer just a design constraint, closed loop customer journeys that will inspire you to apply holistic design to your product lines, and case studies that prove that a circular, systems-thinking approach can create beautiful products. As a designer, seeing is believing.Â