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short articles about design, activism, & consumerism 20 Mar 2013 | 06:25 pm
Some of you might be aware that I went on a virtual book tour in the autumn and posted a number of short articles on host websites. I had some terrific hosts and the articles are still there–thought s...
Split personality: news from the Simplicity Institute 4 Mar 2013 | 07:48 pm
We’ve all faced the dilemma of trying to improve what we do, while being trapped inside infrastructure that makes doing the right thing really difficult. A small example–the cafe gives me a disposable...
Virtual Book Tour Underway 17 Oct 2012 | 06:16 pm
It’s been an interesting experience working with a number of different blogs to get the guest posts out for the virtual book tour. So far there are 3 tour stops active with 4 more to come. Each stop h...
A new beginning for the DesignActivism blog 24 Jul 2012 | 05:45 am
Hey my new book is out in the UK now and coming out in the US in September! For the occasion I’ve converted this DesignActivism.net blog into a blog on Design, Consumerism and Activism. Both designact...
extractive design: takes a lot, gives very little 31 Mar 2012 | 04:29 am
Over at the Harvard Business Review, Umair Haque has written about “titanic institutional failure” — how institutions not only fail to provide value but actively extract it from us, extractive institu...
an array of jobs 29 Jan 2012 | 11:46 am
In the past few days I’ve tweeted (@atlasann) about seven interesting jobs that all seem to have a component of activism and would suit a designer. Here’s a recap: Social Innovation Exchange job, “Se...
timeline for design activism — what would you add? 17 Aug 2011 | 10:33 pm
I’ve been preparing a text on design activism and in particular, what can be learned from social movements. Part of the text is a timeline for “cause-oriented” design, which I include here in order to...
An event and a short paper on defining design activism 20 May 2011 | 01:38 am
There are a couple of items here, an event and a paper. I’m chairing the upcoming event next week, Weds. 25th May. The talk is part of the “Scarcity Exchanges“ program of the research project, Scarci...
time and scale: local now versus global 10,000 years 26 Apr 2011 | 07:39 am
Recently two examples of design activism came up on my radar at nearly the same time, and they were of such different scope and scale that I wanted to mention them. The first case is a small project t...
Designers in a new “collaborative” brand called Common 11 Feb 2011 | 09:56 am
When I first heard about the idea of a collaborative brand I was intrigued. The message came in a tweet from Project M’s John Bielenberg, “world’s first collaborative brand.” I promptly retweeted (fol...
