LECTURE: State of Design Conference: Design Capital
Melbourne, Australia
July 18, 2008

THE OPPORTUNITY OF CRISIS: DESIGNING THE FUTURE

Emily Pilloton, Founder of Project H Design, a charitable organization that supports, inspires, and delivers humanitarian product design solutions, and the Managing Editor of Inhabitat.com, an online green design publication, will propose a challenge for the designers of the future. She will champion the idea of “enabling design” as a catalyst for individual, community, and global empowerment.

Enabling design refers to both designing solutions that enable individuals, communities, and economies, and enabling the design industry and design academics to value more socially and environmentally-responsible priorities. The acts of enabling design and designing to enable are the future of design.

Using examples from her own organization, Project H Design, including a recent trip to South Africa for the delivery of 75 Hippo Roller water transport devices, Emily will make the business and value-based cases for great design that is both good and green. She will assert that the future of design lies in the redefining the design client as a global citizen, expanding design markets to underserved populations, and prioritizing new design academic curricula as the impetus for such change.

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