Lucy Stewart, Design Researcher at Snook

1. Design + Climate
IBM iX
5th March, 2020
#designandclimate
@lucymstewart

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What do you love
about living on planet
earth?

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Me, 1992 My niece, 2018

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We are living
as if we have 3-5
planets (UK).
WWF, 2018

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You could say design
got us here in the first
place.

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Hold ourselves
accountable

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To design a better,
fairer and healthier
planet.

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#designandclimate

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It’s really difficult to
change practice.

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Our practice
● Keeping it practical
● From commissioning to ending things
well

16. “Our actions must cover
the types of drugs we
purchase, the energy we
use in our buildings and
the waste we generate”
Bawden, A
The Guardian, 2019

17. Anderson & McMinn, NPR 2019

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Our relationships
● The way we scope projects, relate with
clients and put together briefs
● But as an industry we need minimal
viable knowledge
● An space for testing and experimentation.

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Our community

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before us.

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Adapt our practice to
incorporate the
environment in the
now and the long
term.

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Work in the open to
create provenance
for what we’re
learning and
experimenting with.

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Build confidence to
talk about the climate
change/ecological
crisis.

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Co-design ways to
bring climate into
ours organisations.

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Build stuff like this
remote workshop
guide to cut carbon
(and save us from
coronavirus)

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Work Towards Radical

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Slack | coming soon
Events | scheduled in March, April & beyond (want to run one, let me
know)
@lucymstewart