Balancing the soft and the hard - applying designerly skills in tech industry
Day 01 / Nov. 27th, Thu.
Time:
12:00 – 13:20
Category:
Place:
PPNT Gdynia
Improvisation in Emergency Mode
How do we maintain the relevance of sustainability when priorities are shifting? In „emergency mode,” improvisation and courage play a crucial role. Discover how to use imagination and „soft” design skills to create a different future, turning uncertainty into an opportunity for entirely new pathways.
When the world is putting sustainability on hold, how do we make the superpower of design relevant?
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While sustainability is reaching the bottom on the priority list for many companies, strategies are getting narrower and ambitions lower, the designers’ call for holistic perspective, purpose and collaboration is becoming less relevant. At the same time the need for it is greater than ever.
This is the dilemma for many designers, future thinkers and agents for sustainability. How can we make our contribution relevant?
Oda Midtlyng Klempe
Designer and head of sustainability at tech agency Inventas, Norway
Designer and head of sustainability at tech agency Inventas, Norway
What’s for you?
Through experience sharing and hard lessons learned and soft analysis the talk will pinpoint three key points: