Locus principal, Timothy Allan, is heading off today on a 3 week tour focused on life cycle thinking and sustainable product development in the UK, Europe, and the USA. Tim will be checking in as he travels, updating the Locus blog with reports and accounts of his journey. Click here to read the latest from Tim's travels.
The first stop is Ireland where Tim will be working with a group of 4th year students at Limerick University on Life Cycle Thinking. From here he travels to Carlow to be a keynote speaker for Reform 08 as part of the national Design Week. He will be presenting our approach to product development and in particular the application of life cycle thinking for designers and students at Limerick University and the Carlow Institute of Technology. Click here for more information on Reform 08 or see:-
http://designweekcork.com/talks-lectures/
http://www.idi-design.ie/calendar/reform08.htm
Design office, The Yard, in Glasgow will be next on the agenda, where Tim will catch up with former colleagues at ElementZeroSix and forward the latest news from the Scottish design scene back to us here in New Zealand. He will then be meeting up with Neil Tierney of Onzo in London and fitting in a bit of sightseeing amongst more visits to design companies in the city.
Tim will head back to Europe to Milan to spend some time visiting Thomas Sutton at Frog design, and Politecnico de Milano - a well renowned design school, before flying to Amsterdam for an appointment at Delft Technical University to discuss the potential for collaboration between New Zealand designers and staff and students at the university. This will be followed by his attendance at day two of the Nutec Conference in Frankfurt then a stopover in San Francisco on the way home to visit Bernard Kerr at Yahoo and to have a look through the local IDEO office with senior designer Jo Oliver.
The blog will be updated regularly during November, detailing the latest and greatest from Tim's wanderings, so be sure to drop by and find out about design on the other side of the globe.
