Public lecture by Ursula Tischner
A European perspective on eco-design and shaping the future.
As business responds to new environmental limits, designers now work on eco-efficient services, dematerialisation, eco-innovation, product-service systems and social innovation.
What does that mean for cities, office design, consumer products, services, emotional qualities, semantics, new businesses, design education, the role of designers in future vision?
Design Victoria, Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab and Sustainability Victoria are pleased to invite you to this valuable free public lecture by a leading ECO-LEAD* visitor to Melbourne - Ursula Tischner.
Seminar details
Thursday 5 June 2008
6.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Prince Philip Theatre, University of Melbourne
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Free bookings
Bookings essential by Monday 2 June 2008.
To RSVP please click ‘Register for Event’ below and register your details.
Please direct further enquiries to David McLachlan on +61 3 9925 4195 or events@designvic.com
Ursula Tischner
Ursula Tischner, architect and industrial designer, has more than 15 years experience in Eco-Design. At the Wuppertal Institute in Germany she helped develop concepts now used around the world: eco-efficiency, MIPS, Factor 4 and Factor 10.
Ursula, Director of ec[o]ncept in Cologne engages in research, consulting, training for small and large companies and organisations in Europe, South East Asia, Korea and Latin America.
Ursula coordinates the Master in Sustainable Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven and is associate professor at the Zurich Design School. She has been a lead organiser for a number of important EU research networks on Sustainable Design, SCORE, MEPS, SusProNet and ecobiente.
She is a leading European exponent of a new approach to sustainable design - product service systems (PSS). PSS proposes that companies move from selling products to designing systems of products and services jointly capable of fulfilling client needs more efficiently. PSS aims to decouple the creation of value from consumption of materials and energy.
* ‘ECO- LEAD: Leading thinking in eco-innovation’ is a program of Sustainability Victoria and VEIL (the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab at the University of Melbourne).
Related links
ec[o]ncept
Sustainability Victoria
Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab
Interview with Ursula Tischner at the Volvo Sports Design at ispo 2008