On Tuesday night I spoke on behalf of the Eskimos at the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) Sustainable Design Event in Adelaide. The passionate and optimistic crew of S.A have initiated a program that they call “studio and practice”, aimed at inspiring and showcasing sustainability initiatives from Australia’s Design Community.
It is always nice to discuss the possibilities that designers can bring to societies, it excites and encourages me to continue to use my problem solving skills to output solutions that have a positive effect on the world.
Digital Eskimo has joined the The Designers Accord, a pledge to raise social and environmental impact with every client and to collaborate with one another. It is an agreement to reroute design, manufacturing and even the economy towards a livable ecological future.
100,000 designers have already signed up, it’s time for all designers to step up and take responsibility for the social impact that our work has.
Thank-you to Matthew Wright-Simon, Director at Ecocreative for asking me along and the participants for allowing themselves to become engaged and welcoming the opportunities that we as designers have before us.
Photograph by Luke Simon
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That’s inspiring stuff, Michelle.
So is design the discipline to lead the social change we need, to invent the solar economy, to reconnect people through the noise, to make more with less, to find the beauty, the space to think…?
Thanks Dan. Yes, this is the tool that can enable change. Design not only reaches, but empowers. Inspiring others and fostering change. It is a language that everyone can interpret and when used in clever ways, it changes lives.