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Workshops
/ August 21 2009
Locus Research interaction designer Vicky Teinaki will be at the UX conference UX Australia. She'l be reporting back on her experiences.User Experience professionals from California to Christchurch... Read more
/ August 21 2009
Earlier this year, the Sustainable Brands 09 conference took place in Monterey, Mexico. For those Kiwis who weren't able to make the trip, Sustainable Brands 09 Outreach - a... Read more
/ February 18 2009
It was a full house at AUT last night, with a crowd of over 80 ranging from architects to economists packing into the small lecture theatre to listen to Dr Janis Birkeland's talk on positive... Read more
/ November 3 2008
During the first part of my European Trip I was hosted by Muireann McMahon a lecturer at the University of Limerick in product design. Product design is part of the Manufacturing and Operations... Read more
/ September 15 2008
This year’s CEO Summit set out to explore how New Zealand companies can make the most of sustainable design and business opportunities with examples given by several leading international... Read more
/ September 9 2008
Professor Michael Braungart the co-author of "Cradle to Cradle - remaking the way we make things" visited New Zealand over the last week to keynote at the Better by Design CEO summit. We were... Read more
/ September 9 2008
If I needed to summarise my comments with one sentence I’d say “Cradle to Cradle is great but not a panacea”.
The below is a limited analysis of “why”, only for those who have some time to kill... Read more
/ September 8 2008
I was lucky enough to be a part of the select audience at Michael Braungart’s extra presentation on Tuesday. Three points have reverberated in my mind since his presentation on Cradle to Cradle... Read more
/ July 4 2008
The Second of the life cycle thinking series was held in Auckland this week on the 3rd of July. The event was attended by a group of about 20 people and the response was generally very good. It... Read more
/ June 27 2008
The Christchurch workshop was held on Thursday with a reasonable turn out. Most participants were experienced designers or design engineers so it was an ideal audience for the 3rd Life Cycle Thinking... Read more
