10% Discount for SWDF Members at ALL OUR FUTURES
Sustainable Design Conference taking place between the 15 – 17 September 2009
All Our Futures 2 – getting real – investing in our future – by design
All Our Futures 2, through future forecasting from world experts, business and design leaders, researchers, learners and teachers, will address the sustainability challenges of the twenty first century.
This conference brings together the imperatives of design, business and education: that we design a world that we can go on living in, and that we communicate to each other the values, insights, skills and technologies informing this design.
As natural resources are depleted and climate changes for the worse, design for sustainability becomes increasingly urgent. Designers, commerce, researchers, teachers and learners are called upon to shape strategy and to involve themselves in decision-making about products and services appropriate for a rapidly changing social and material environment.
Today’s designers are forging new relationships with business, production and marketing. Today’s academics – researchers and educators – are developing the relevant new knowledges and skills. Today’s students are most urgently engaged: they are the next generation of leaders in business, the professions and the community who must solve the problems contemporary policies have made.
We are inviting designers, business, researchers, teachers and learners world-wide to join us in Plymouth in the South West of the United Kingdom. This is where the first All Our Futures conference was held last year, where the University of Plymouth is promoting new approaches to Education for Sustainability and where some 1300 design businesses are working to develop the new products we are really going to need for our future. The city of Plymouth is a city in transformation, the heart of the South West, where environment, design, culture and learning are making a difference.
We invite you to take part in changing the future.
See http://csf.plymouth.ac.uk/allourfutures/ – SWDF members are entitled to a 10% discount when booking.