UNC Sustainability Symposium: Ted Howes 2082013

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GETTING CLOSER: EMERGING RULES, TOOLS AND NORMS FOR

SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION

WATER AND ENERGY IN THE CROSSHAIRS

FIRST, A STORY.

THIS IS IN SHORT SUPPLY

LET’S REDESIGN THIS INTO A CONVERSATION

SUSTAINABILITY TO DATE IS MOSTLY DEFINED BY CONTENT, NOT CONTEXT

SO. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? AND HOW DO WE DO THAT?

LET’S START WITH DESIGN THINKING

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build multidisciplinary teams

2.

understand what really matters to people

2.

understand what really matters to people

3.

make time (and space) to make sense.

4.

prototype

5.

iterate

6.

craft the story

AND LET’S NOT NEGLECT SYSTEMS DESIGN

CONSUMPTION PATTERNS ARE SHIFTING

WE’RE SEEING NEW MODES OF CONSUMPTION

HERE’S THE PROBLEM

- make data meaningful

HOW MIGHT WE TURN DATA INTO INFORMATION?

HOW MIGHT WE CREATE INTEGRATED DEVICE EXPERIENCES THAT LEARN FROM US?

HOW MIGHT WE SURFACE INFORMATION HOLISTICALLY/CONTINUOUSLY/DISCREETLY?

- make information personal

HOW MIGHT WE MAKE MEANING OUT OF MESS?

HOW MIGHT WE CREATE INTEGRATED DEVICE EXPERIENCES THAT GUIDE US?

- make action seamless

HOW MIGHT WE REDESIGN THE UNDESIGNED?

HOW MIGHT WE CREATE EXPERIENCES THAT MEET US WHERE WE ARE?

HOW MIGHT WE REBRAND COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION?

- make systems sustainable

HOW MIGHT WE REDESIGN THE SYSTEM?

SERIOUSLY. HOW MIGHT WE REDESIGN THE SYSTEM?

- make data meaningful- make information personal- make action seamless- make systems sustainable

THANK YOU‘hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out’ - Vaclav Havel