Came across this through PSFK: 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design by Allan Chochinov. It is on a site about industrial design but, like all good design techniques, it can be applied to the creation of anything. Here are his main points:
- * Hippocratic Before Socratic
- * Stop Making Crap
- * Systems Before Artifacts
- * Teach Sustainability Early
- * Screws Better Than Glues
- * Design for Impermanence
- * Balance Before Talents
- * Metrics Before Magic
- * Climates Before Primates
- * Context Before Absolutely Everything
My favourite quotes:
“We think that we’re in the artifact business, but we’re not; we’re in the consequence business.”
“We have to start balancing our ability to be clever with our ability to be smart.”
Check it out: http://www.core77.com/reactor/04.07_chochinov.asp