Dutch designer Floris Wubben has designed this ‘Stipped branch lamp’. For more pictures press here

… we have to prove them wrong!

Watch this 3 and a half minutes Vimeo shortfilm – big ideas – where design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project. Something no one had done before. If they could swing it, it would for sure be revolutionary. The bicycle is a tool to change the world. If we use bikes AND travel safe: Life will be better for all. These two young women have developed an invisible helmet!!! So cool!

Time to go to school. Check out this youtube video and get ideas for how to apply greener practices to engineering problems with the Autodesk® Sustainability Workshop for students. 

From manufacturing to disposal, the things we make create environmental impacts throughout their life cycles. In “Whole Systems Design” you’ll discover opportunities for saving resources, like materials and energy, can often be uncovered early in the design process, by identifying the right problems to solve before engineering begins

I Am Fishead – Documentary Film (2011) Directed and Produced by Misha Votruba and Vaclav Dejcmar.

It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below. Who are these people? Can we blame them for the problems our society faces today? Guided by the saying “A fish rots from the head.” we set out to follow that fishy odor. What we found out is that people at the top are more likely to be psychopaths than the rest of us.

Documentary about how psychopaths and antidepressants influence our society – a provocative snapshot of the world we live in. Maybe it sounds to fare out, but watch the doc. some of the facts are disturbing.

A happy woman ! – Since I just finished my Diploma in Education, in Danish  Pædagogisk Diplomuddannelse, a 60 ECTS valued education. I have learned about teaching and learning, basic knowledge and new theories about science, pedagogy and learning methods, such as Piaget, Løw, Illeris and Scharmer alone with coaching techniques. In all self chosen topics I focused on facilitating learning in the Design process. At the same time I was teaching at the Design schools and DTU and saw this as a very enriching, synergistic learning process. It was an interesting and rewarding two sides process to switch between learning and teaching, and it has given me a chance to test my new knowledge and seeing ‘the learning proces’ happen in the mind and body of the design students.

My final project was about ‘Guidance and supervision in Design processes – and how to archive innovation and creativity within this proces’. My focus was on the appreciative- and narrative approach  supplemented with new ideas and methods from Otto Scharmers interesting book ‘Theory U’.

Diploma.

Watch Otto Scharmer talking about how we can lean from the past AND the future. Otto Scharmer is the author of Theory U and here explains the U-turn and how to innovate and create change.

The answer is – to see greenhouse emissions as resources instead of problems.

Press here and read how Michael Braungart & Douglas Mulhall think that we should: Treat emissions as resources.

Michael Norton shares fascinating research on how money can, indeed buy happiness — when you don’t spend it on yourself. Listen for surprising data on the many ways pro-social spending can benefit you, your work, and (of course) other people. Through clever studies, Michael Norton studies how we feel about what we buy and spend.

Watch TED talk here

Watch Ellen MacArthur being interviewed by BBC News Business explaining about circular economy and how re-use of materials set up in a circular economy is getting attention from ceo’s, because it is a necessary way of acting in a future, where humans still have wants and needs in a world of limited resources.

Og for os der forstår dansk, så er CradlePeople igang med at undersøge cirkulær økonomi og har denne beskrivelse.