Timothy Allan - Locus Research Presenting at Reform 08   As part of the Irish Design Week Reform 08 is held to reinforce the inclusion of sustainability into design practice.   The event is largely created through the ...[Read More]

    During the first part of my European Trip I was hosted by Muireann McMahon a lecturer at the University of Limerick in product design. Product design is part of the Manufacturing and Operations Engineering faculty. Ryder Meggit f ...[Read More]

This year’s CEO Summit set out to explore how New Zealand companies can make the most of sustainable design and business opportunities with examples given by several leading international organizations and a group of local companies committed ...[Read More]

I was lucky enough to be a part of the select audience at Michael Braungart’s extra presentation on Tuesday. Three points have reverberated in my mind since his presentation on Cradle to Cradle design thinking:   “A design that is less bad is stil ...[Read More]

Professor Michael Braungart the co-author of 'Cradle to Cradle - remaking the way we make things' visited New Zealand over the last week to keynote at the Betterbydesign CEO summit.   We were fortunate enough, along with the support of MFE, SBN, ...[Read More]

The Second of the life cycle thinking series was held in auckland this week on the 3rd of  July. The event was attended by a group of about 20 people and the response was generally very good. It was great to see some of the participants from the o ...[Read More]

The Christchurch workshop was held on Thursday with a reasonable turn out. Most participants were experienced designers or design engineers so it was an ideal audience for the 3rd Life Cycle Thinking workshops.   The CPIT was an ideal venue, alt ...[Read More]