I think it is never enough when we speak about behaviour change in manufacturing products. Resuming from my last post about Steelcase I would like to introduce one of their most interesting projects: The Think chair. In 2000 Steelcase was the first office furniture company to apply the Life Cycle thinking in the ...

Steelcase Inc. is a nearly 100 years old  brand that offers a comprehensive portfolio of workplace furnishings, products and services. Designing to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Steelcase was created by a few people with a strong commitment to integrity and doing the right thing for their customers, employees, ...

  INDEGO AFRICA is an innovative non-profit social enterprise, the name stands for “independence, development, and governance”—three life-changing attributes that Indego Africa is helping instill in 250 Rwandan women in order to lift them and their families out of poverty. The business model is simple yet ground-breaking: partnership with cooperatives of women ...

  The human body contains from 55% to 78% water. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven litres of water per day to avoid dehydration. Globally, one every five person doesn’t have access to clean drinking water. Two in five do not have adequate sanitation facilities and many countries ...

In 1994 Jeremy Moon received a T-shirt by a shepherd in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The T-shirt was remarkably soft and do not hold body odour. "It didn't look too good, but it felt amazing. And I fell in love with the feeling of it," says Moon. The ...

  Design for the other 90%, the name is useful to explain the global situation: while the richest 10 percent of the world’s population enjoys the vast majority of consumer goods and services, 5.8 billion people  (or 90%)  struggle to gain access to the basic things they need: clean water, food, ...

Internet is the way to get people to see their clothes and listen to their messages. The recently launched web site IOU project is not the latest clothes brand but it is a bridge between Indian artisans and consumers. The head of the project is Kavita Parmar. She is "a fashion designer ...

REcycle REdecorate REdesign is the slogan of Katie Thompson, an interior designer from South Africa. It’s quite interesting how Katie recreates unique furniture, lighting and interior accessories from pieces of discarded junk. Each piece is infused with its own previous character but with a new function. What characterizes Katie’s work is ...

Daniele Pario Perra is the author of the book "Low Cost Design", an analysis ranging from design to the sociology of the territory about the change in the use of objects and places through the actions of the inhabitants. The book is the result of an eight years research and more ...

The Economics of Happiness is a film I’m looking forward to in 2011. Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick and John Page are the filmmakers. The film synopsis and trailer present a clear idea about the sense of well-being: life is becoming increasingly stressful for the majority of people on the planet. ...