Feature Friday Beyond The Cult Of Human-Centered Design [Picture: Bernhard Lang/Getty Images] Find a summary of the article below; to access the full version visit FastCoDesign.com. Negative Product or Service Design Features While human-centered design and design thinking focuses on empathy and understanding users, their values and experience, designing for the individual can have disastrous long-term […]
In total 15 model municipalities participated at Global Sustainable Municipality in NRW (GNK NRW) [eng: Global Sustainable Municipality in NRW] and came together at LAG21’s (Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft 21/ Federal State Working Group 21) Closing Event to talk about the process and results of implementing their own local sustainability strategy to realize Agenda 2030’s SDGs.
VHS Bonn Lecture – Southeast Asia Jakarta – Between Cultural Diversity and Religious Division [Picture: Bagus Ghufron] Jakarta, capitol of Indonesia, is the biggest city of South-East Asia and possess a 13-times higher population density than the Ruhr area in Germany. Most recently, changing social dynamics led to religious-political tensions in the capitol of a country that was […]
To what extent is our market economy a suitable economic framework to guarantee a good life for everyone? What role do corporations play? Which values and guiding principles provide direction for entrepreneurial action? What are the opportunities and limits of Corporate Social Responsibility?
Growing digitalization covers all areas of life: work, mobility, education, home & living, shopping – everything is transforming. City of Bonn wishes to become a Smart City too, to become more environmental friendly and increase the Quality of Life of its citizens. What has Bonn already achieved in the quest of becoming a Smart City? What does it offer to whom? At what cost?
To prevent further transgressing planetary boundaries and rectify social and environmental injustices, Transition Town movements that build on a bottom-up approach can demand politics and economy to place humanity and the individual back at the center of economic activities and decision making.
Competition between cities to become the next global city has internationalized and opened up an opportunity for the Maghreb to set one of their own cities on the map of global significance. Increased international political power and economical wealth can be gained. But what about the people on the road to achieve this quest? Do they have to give way to the accompanying urban development?
A closer look at the upcoming generation change in sub-Saharan Africa that could help getting a grip on political corruption and direct resources improving the transportation infrastructure to leave its colonial past behind, improve the economic situation and ameliorate citizens’ standard of living.
Individuals’ decision making and action taking determines whether Agenda 2030 and its 17 SDGs will be realized. But, where lies the greatest potential for a more sustainable lifestyle, what is the role of politics, will all efforts be in vain due to more structural factors, can enhanced cooperation and networking or emerging technologies make a difference?
With the little window into the future that research gives him, Taylor Wilson wants to harness the liberating power of providing access to energy and informational technologies with the right messages for a world with more social, gender and racial equality.