The document provides an overview of topics to be covered in Week 2 of the Parsons Sourcemap course, including introductions to transparent sustainability, the Repair Manifesto, the Ars Electronica Festival theme of repair, infographics, ethical fashion, and a design conference on sustainability. Links are provided for further information on each topic, which range from sustainable product design and repair culture to data visualization and responsible consumerism in the fashion industry. Instructors and contact information are listed at the top.

1. Parsons Sourcemap, Fall 2010
CRN 7052, PUDD 4550D
Sabine Seymour seymours@newschool.edu
Leo Bonanni leo@sourcemap.org
Week 2
Introduction Sabine Seymour
Transparent Sustainability
Repair Manifesto
Ars Electronica Festival 2010
Infosthetics
Ethical Fashion Show
Design of Prosperity

2. Sabine Seymour
Chief Creative Officer
Moondial, Fashionable Technology Studio & Lab
Vienna & New York
Assistant Professor of Fashionable Technology
Director, Fashionable Technology Lab
Parsons The New School for Design
New York
1930s 1980s 2008 2010

3. Transparent Sustainability in Functional
Aesthetics by Sabine Seymour
“Transparent sustainability announces the entire life cycle of a product,
reveals social interventions, exemplifies the environmental and health
implications, finds solutions for the smart exploration of energy on and
through the body, and applies novel materials for sustainable
housing.” (Seymour, 2010, 156)
More information on the book: www.functionalaesthetics.org
Q: Examples of change through transparency? Transparency as
movement?

4. Repair Manifesto by Platform 21
1. Make your own products live longer!
2. Things should be designed so that they can be repaired.
3. Repair is not replacement.
4. Repairing is a creative challenge.
6. Repair survives fashion.
7. To repair is to discover.
8. Repair – even in good times!
9. Repaired things are unique.
10. Repairing is about independence.
11. You can repair anything, even a plastic bag.
Stop recycling. Start repairing.
Download the Repair Manifesto at: www.platform21.nl
Q: The Repair Manifesto as guideline?

5. Ars Electronica Festival 2010
repair, sind wir noch zu retten
The Windowfarms Project
Plastic Bag, 2009
Plastic Planet, 2009
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
Scrap Design
For more information: www.aec.at/repair
Q: The economics of repair – the repair economy?

6. Infosthetics. Where form follows data.
For more examples: http://infosthetics.com
Q: Parsons Sourcemap a visual exemplification of data essential for a
designers?

7. Ethical Fashion Show
Paris
The study “Fashion and the consumer: What the consumers think.”,
confirms new expectations for more responsible consumerism.
1. Organic materials
2. Natural materials
3. Recycling
4. Fashion that promotes know-how
5. Fashion that invests in social projects
6. Fair fashion
For more information: www.ethicalfashionshow.com
Q: What is ethical / consumerism? Fashion Night Out?

8. Design of Prosperity Conference 2009
The sustainability of our future
Talks:
Authenticity and Responsibility: The Drivers of Sustainability
Doing Business for The Next Hundred Years
The Power of Transparency: Creating Value, Communicating,
and Involving The Whole Supply Net
Using bluesign™ technologies ag to Use and Produce Less
The Invisible Hand of Culture
For more information: www.thedesignofprosperity.se
Q: What is the sustainability of our future?