Statements on Sustainable Design

Statements on Sustainable Design

Jonathan Chapmen is professor for sustainable design and director of Design Research Initiatives at the University of Brighton, UK. He is founder of the emotionally durable design movement, which he first published in his book, Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences & Empathy (Routledge, 2005). The IDRV had the chance to do the interview when Chapman came to Vienna in January 2015 for a two days workshop at the designforum Vienna, organized by designaustria in cooperation with University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Michael Leube and GP designpartners.

Nina Troeger, sociologist; consumer protection/consumer research, Chamber of Labor, Vienna

Rudolf Greger, service designer; Managing Partner, gp designpartners, Vienna

Martina Mara, media psychologist, Ars Electronica FutureLab, Linz

Daniela Bohlinger, designer, Team BMWi, Munich, University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd

Hans Holzinger, sustainablility researcher, Robert-Jungk-Futures Library, Salzburg

Dr. Ira Mollay, founder, Die Mutmacherei/inspire4change, Vienna

Paul Micklethwaite is co-author of "Design for Sustainable Change". He is also teaching and researching at Kingston University and interested in the different fields of design as a cultural practice.

Rolf Sachsse about the three lifes of design and the ethics of waste. Sachsse is photographer, author and professor for design history and design theory.

Ezio Manzini is designer, engineer, architect and author and currently professor of Industrial Design at the Milan Polytechnic and Chair Professor of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Ursula Tischner is Director of econcept Cologne and Professor of Design for Sustainability, Savannah College of Art, USA.

Sigrid Stagl is environmental economist, Professor at the Institute for Regional and Environmental Economics, University of Economics and Business, Vienna

Harald Gruendl is design theorist and chairman of IDRV, designer (EOOS), Vienna.

Georg Guensberg is consultant on environmental issues in strategic communications and politics, Vienna.