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Welcome to the official blog for RISD's advanced studio, Design for Social Entrepreneurship, Fall 2008. This course aims to cultivate social entrepreneurial designers by investigating the power of products, systems and services to create positive social and environmental change both internationally and domestically.

Showing posts with label sustainability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainability. Show all posts

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Our Speakers Today


Thank you to our two wonderful speakers that joined us this afternoon. 

We had an engaging and inspiring experience. We will  be posting the videos of their presentations soon when they are up and ready. 

For more information on each organization and individual check out: 

Matt Grigsby- Ecolect

Tanya Fields- Blk Grl
Sustainable South Bronx. For more information on this amazing organization and how they started, watch Majora Carter's TED talk below. Majora is a mentor of Tanya's, a MacArthur Fellow, a human rights activist and my personal shero. 



Stay tuned for videos from the presentations! 

Thursday, October 23, 2008

New School Sustainability: Majors Making a Difference


A recent article from WorldChanging discussing the shift in univerities' majors to fit the demand to learn about sustainability. Check it out here. 

...including the power of design! Once we have our two pagers together, we can add a comment directing them to the projects and share the message about how design can innovate the field of environmental and social sustainability!