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    Design Is The Problem: The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable

    By Nathan Shedroff

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    Design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities. What we produce, how we serve customers and other stakeholders, and even how we understand how the world works is all affected by the design of models and solutions. Designers have an unprecedented opportunity to use their skills to make meaningful, sustainable change in the world—if they know how to focus their skills, time, and agendas. In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosenfeld Media
    Release dateFeb 1, 2009
    ISBN9781933820019
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    Design Is The Problem: The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable
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    Nathan Shedroff

    Nathan Shedroff is the chair of the groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy program at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, California. This 21st century business program prepares the next generation of innovation leaders for a world that is profitable, sustainable, ethical, and truly meaningful. The program unites the perspectives of systems thinking, design and integrative thinking, sustainability, and generative leadership into a holistic strategic framework. He is also a pioneer in experience design, interaction design, and business strategy, speaks and teaches internationally, and is a serial entrepreneur, now launching a new company. His many books include: Experience Design 1.1, Making Meaning, Design Is the Problem, and Make It So. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School and a BS in industrial design from Art Center College of Design. He worked with Richard Saul Wurman at TheUnderstandingBusiness and later co–founded vivid studios, a decade&nash;old pioneering company in interactive media and one of the first Web services firms on the planet. vivid's hallmark was helping to establish and validate the field of information architecture, by training an entire generation of designers in the newly emerging Web industry. Nathan is also on the board of directors for Teague, the oldest design firm in the world.

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