All posts tagged Process

Ray-Anderson-Interface
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October 27, 2011, No comments

In the mid-1990s visionary Ray Anderson jolted the petroleum-intensive carpet industry by shifting the direction of Interface, Inc. into becoming one of the first net-zero companies.  As chairman and founder …

A Women's Health Center in Burkina Faso, developed by AIDOS, designed by an Architecture for Humanity team

Architecture for Humanity Presents – Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE!

October 20, 2011, No comments

On Friday, October 21st and Saturday, October 22nd, Architecture for Humanity will host their annual conference – Design Like You Give a Damn: L ...

Designing Preparedness

March 15, 2011, No comments

I am the daughter of a structural engineer. Before my father retired, he specialized in designing high-rise structures in earthquake prone California. ...

Transiting from ‘waste to energy’ to an integrated strategy for materials management; towards beneficial incineration

March 7, 2011, No comments

By Douglas Mulhall, Rachel Platin, Sonja Rickert-Kruglov, Alain Riviere, Tanja Scheelhaase, Christoph Semisch, & Christian Sinn. Rare earth materi ...

  • Re-Design Your Life
    December 27, 2010, No comments

    But has anyone ever resolved to strategically re-design his or her life? Linda Tischler, a Senior Editor at Fast Company, has pledged exactly that.

  • Designing Desire to be #1
    December 21, 2010, No comments

    In designing this desire to be number one, focus can become skewed, research used ineffectively, short cuts taken, resulting in, shall we say, less than desirable results.

  • The Economies of Desire
    December 21, 2010, No comments

    The past 20 years has seen a dramatic shift in the global economy and the way in which consumers view themselves and the way in which business views the consumer. Companies and designers have reacted to this new hybrid consumer who is accus ...

  • Establishing a Creative Economy
    December 21, 2010, No comments

    Steve Masterson, COO of Kiska, discusses the need to balance the desires of designers with the desires of consumers and our environment. Masterson offers a brief history of product design and speaks to its ability to create desire in consum ...