Designing our Future and podcasting

At 7pm on Monday 3rd June I went to a talk at Bournemouth University entitled "Designing our Future".  It was given by a lecturer in engineering, Mehran Koohgilani, who has a passion for the environment. 


He feels that currently designers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers and consumers are all colluding with a culture that involves planned obsolesence of items such as computers and smart phones.  We are "designing for the dump".  Fashion and the latest technology at the lowest price outweighs health and safety factors and preserving Mother Earth for future generations.



During this talk, he mentioned a podcast by a green-minded architect William McDonough which is available via the website TED.  TED describes itself as a nonprofit community devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.