[SPN-Discussion] Event on May 6

[Jennifer van der Meer]

Sustainability: The Exit Strategy
An Evening with Ezio Manzini

Where: The Cherry Lane Theater
38 Commerce Street
West Village, NY City
When: Wednesday, May 6, 2009
6:00 - 8:00 PM

Overall consumption of environmental resources continues to grow. This
clearly tells us that increasing improvements in the current system are
not enough. The transition towards sustainability requires a systemic
change. It is not a question of doing what we already do better. It is a
question of doing different things in completely different ways.

There is an emerging demand for visions of sustainability. This requires
scenarios to show that is possible to move form the “less of the same”
perspective to the “better and different” one. That is, the one where is
proved that there are feasible, socially acceptable, even attractive,
alternatives on different scales for various aspects of people's lives.

Where will this vision come from? The emerging features, as the cases of
socio-technical innovation on which they are based, are characterized by
four keywords: small, local, open and connected. We know that these same
keywords are characterizing the contemporary society, when we look at it
as a network society.

To do that the role of the design community (can be crucial to feed the
social learning process with the needed design knowledge: new scenarios
(on sustainable ways of being and doing) and specific design contributions
(to the development of viable solutions.

$20 admission (+ .99 eventbrite fee)
Special student rate
Volunteer opportunities

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