WeWood #3 We Conversations
Jane discusses the challenges and opportunities of ‘Design, Production and Sustainability’ with Carlos Silva, co-founder and production manager of WeWood. Introduced and curated by Maria Ana Botelho Neves
Designing Sustainability
Jane Penty is a designer, educator and sustainable design consultant. For several decades her research and practice have been focused on working with designers, companies and organisations to transform what and how we produce and consume into enabling tools for sustainable lives.
Jane Penty is a designer, educator and sustainable design consultant. For several decades her research and practice have focused on working with designers, companies and organsiations to transform ‘what‘ and ‘how‘ we produce and consume into enabling tools for sustainable lives.
Events
Redesigning how we live not life
Guest lecture at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design sharing key insights from ‘Product Design and Sustainability’
Product Design and Sustainability London book launch
Jane Penty is joined by guest panellists from Map Project, Notpla and Open Desk to discuss the real-life challenges of designing sustainable products at Central St Martins, UAL, King’s Cross, London
Tooling up for the big redesign
Guest lecture at Silkaporn University based on key insights from ‘Product Design and Sustainability’
Lifting the lid on our consumption: Mobility and Transportation
Lunchtime talks series as part of the ‘Designing in Turbulent Times’ exhibition’, CSM, Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross.
‘Product Design and Sustainability’ book launch event
Join Jane Penty and guest panellists for the US launch of her new book at Products of Design, SVA.
Lifting the lid on our consumption: Short-life Consumer Packaged Goods
Lunchtime talks series as part of the ‘Designing in Turbulent Times’ exhibition’, CSM, Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross.
Lifting the lid on our consumption: Furniture and Interior Products
Lunchtime talks series as part of the ‘Designing in Turbulent Times’ exhibition’, CSM, Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross.
Lifting the lid on our consumption: Electronics Tools and Digital Gateways
Lunchtime talks series as part of the ‘Designing in Turbulent Times’ exhibition’, CSM, Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross.
Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore the Impact of Sustainability on Licensing
Global License keynote discussion panelist at BLE 2019, Excel Centre, London
Tooling up for the big redesign
Speaker at XR London Universities launch on the Strand in support of the Global Climate Strike.
Time for a {Reset}
Keynote speaker at ‘Design and Neighbourhood’, Zamek Ciezcyn Design Centre’s 14th Anniversary event supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw
Product Design and Sustainability
Published by Routledge August 2019
Whether it is the devastating effects of climate change, the avalanche
of electronic and plastic waste or the substandard living and working conditions of billions of our fellow global citizens, our ability to deal with unsustainability will define the 21stCentury. Given that most consumption is mediated through products and services, the critical question for designers and consumers is, how can we radically reshape these into tools for sustainable one-planet living?
Given that most consumption is mediated through products and services, the critical question for designers and consumers is, how can we radically reshape these into tools for sustainable one-planet living?
Book Reviews
“Traversing multiple disciplines from material culture and artificial intelligence, to business frameworks, ethics, and social innovation, Jane Penty’s Product Design and Sustainability may be the single most effective compendium for simultaneously defining a contemporary understanding of sustainability while providing an actionable toolkit for its practice.”
Allan Chochinov
“A book that is timely and urgently needed – revisiting the complex and fast-evolving relationships between design, consumption, economics and technology at a pivotal moment. Product Design & Sustainability will help answer questions we all have as designers, and help close the gap between the work that we do and our lived experience of the world.”
Hugo Jamson
“In a world where doomsday scenarios paint alarming pictures while designers work on the next new trend, Jane Penty’s voice is calm and points to a better world through design. The mix of carefully put together information, insightful analysis, detailed examples and design strategy is valuable for both student and practitioner of design.”