Tag Archives: sustainability

Sus­tain­able at Heart

July 16th, 2010
With Jas­max dir­ector Tim Hoo­son par­ti­cip­at­ing in a spe­cial CoreNet Pecha Kucha next week, now seems like a good time to post this story from ProDesign 107, about the archi­tec­tural firm’s move to a new Par­nell base. Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­tos: Simon Devitt. ‘Art is never fin­ished, only aban­doned’, goes the pithy (yet slightly cyn­ical) one liner. Would that [...]
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Caus­ing a Disruption

March 26th, 2010
Two Kiwi design­ers are play­ing on the big stage in the US. Words: Frank Nelson The job title of “Dis­rupter” on Josh Handy’s busi­ness card is per­haps the first indic­a­tion of the edgy, slightly irrev­er­ent nature of some com­pan­ies – and some design­ers – in Cali­for­nia. “It’s about hav­ing a dis­rupt­ive product,” explains Handy, a New Zea­l­and indus­trial designer now firmly [...]
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Alex­an­der Loter­sz­tain at UFL

February 26th, 2010
Two days ago, UFL in Auck­land brought across three inter­na­tional guest speak­ers: Argentina-born designer Alex­an­der Loter­sz­tain, from Derlot, was one. He shared his thoughts on, amongst other things, sus­tain­ab­il­ity, ‘mono-materiality and why design­ers have a respons­ib­il­ity to help poorer countries. For starters, Loter­sz­tain ticks the first box to which all ser­i­ous design­ers should aspire – like Kon­stantin Grcic, [...]
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News: New Zeal­ander new CEO of World Green Build­ing Council

February 3rd, 2010
Global Appoint­ment for New Zea­l­and Green Build­ing Council’s Jane Henley. The New Zea­l­and Green Build­ing Coun­cil (NZGBC) today repor­ted that its CEO, Jane Hen­ley, has been appoin­ted chief exec­ut­ive of the World Green Build­ing Coun­cil. Hen­ley will leave the NZGBC to take up the new appointment. In a state­ment released today, NZGBC Chair­man Rob Lang said [...]
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