Learning

In May 2003 the 25 students, of the Masters Class at IT Delhi, and I stood around the 1929 Austin 7 and everyone was grinning – we had done it, the grin said. In January when we started there were two facts – a course in technology that needed to be done – and a……

Social Object

In March 04 Neil the Big Issue Vendor for the Vic Market spoke to the 2 nd year class of design studies. He talked of how he saw Melbourne as an outsider living within the city. The students in their turn confessed they were apprehensive about meeting people like Neil on the street. Neil is……

Sustainability

In 2001 I developed a curriculum tool kit for design academics to teach sustainability principles in the classroom (published as a paper). This kit is in use today as the prototype of a learning contract for use by teachers in the Industrial Design Program at RMIT. I see this as the location for re-implementing the……

Waste

My foray into waste began in 1998 as a classroom exercise for my students where we were looking at types of problems and ways to approach them . The first exercise to design a better garbage bin became an exercise to portray the whole system. Two months later I agreed to do a pilot project,……

Diabetes

Diabetes has been around among humans a long time. There are many people around the world who suffer from diabetes – 171 million in 2000 going up to 388 million in 2030. A lot of people work in and specialize in working in the area of diabetes: diabetes for them is a source of employment.……