In this issue:
As the developers of products and services used by billions of people around the world, industrial designers hold a crucial position: one that demands we look for ways in which our work can ignite social, cultural, and institutional change. By leveraging our resources, processes, and voice as designers, we can establish new ways of thinking and methodologies in our studios, companies, and corporate settings that, in turn, can help to ensure the ongoing health of our planet and its precious resources.
In this issue, we explore the complex intersection of earth-saving design practices and the value-driven role design plays in strategic decision-making and successful business outcomes. Now, as the once separate languages of design and sustainable business continue to converge, it is vital that we know how to enable a dialogue that helps our business counterparts succeed financially while delivering meaningful human-centered solutions to the marketplace without sacrifice.
Guest contributors:
- Acknowledging the Balance: The Merits of Practical Environmentalism in Sustainable Design by Katie Kuffel
- Designing Better Climate Futures Together by Sebastian Gier
- Designing with Sunlight by Beth Ferguson, IDSA
- Breaking Barriers for Plastic Practicality by Gregory N. Polletta
- Will Circularity Be Enough to Save Us from Environmental Collapse? by Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti, IDSA
- CMF: The Glue That Binds by Courtney Der
- Thinking Outside the Box for Sustainable Design in Africa by Mark Evans, PhD, FIDSA
- Design’s Heroic Mission: How Maturing the Design Culture Leads Brands to Sustainable Outcomes by Jayson Simeon, IDSA
- Using an Interdisciplinary Biodesign Charrette to Prepare Future Sustainability Leaders by Don Carr, IDSA, and Louise Manfredi, PhD, FRSA, IDSA
- An Architectural System Inspired by a Shoe That Was Inspired by a Buildingby Michael DiTullo, IDSA
Featured content:
- The Power of 10: Celebrating a Decade of New York Design Week by Stephan Clambaneva, IDSA
- I Could Not Sketch, I Could Not Render by Stephen Hauser, FIDSA
- What Is the Experience That Experience Designers Are Designing? by Stephen B. Wilcox, PhD, FIDSA
- How a California Sunset Inspired the Lucid Design Language by Brian Paschke
In every issue:
- From HQ by Chris Livaudais, IDSA
- Beautility by Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA
- ID Essay by Steven R. Umbach, FIDSA
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