[Design and Technology] FW: Lecture: Design, Innovation, Opportunities and Dilemmas - A view from the Netherlands

[Tran, Lorraine I]

Dear colleagues

 

Please see the invitation below to the free lecture at Melbourne
University. Note that RSVP is required by 1 February.

 

Regards, 

 

Lorraine Tran

Curriculum Manager, P - 12 Design and Technology

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA)

41 St Andrews Place

East Melbourne 3002

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au

 

Email: tran.lorraine.i at edumail.vic.gov.au

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From: Design Victoria [mailto:designvic at designvic.com] 
Sent: Monday, 21 January 2008 6:18 PM
To: Tran, Lorraine I
Subject: Future?

 

 
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How do we harness creativity for a sustainable future?

Design, Innovation, Opportunities and Dilemmas -A view from The
Netherlands

Professor Han Brezet Head, Design for Sustainability (D4S), Technical
University of Delft; City Innovator, Rotterdam; TV Judge, 'Best Ideas of
the Netherlands'

Prof Brezet's work has supported many famous new products and
entrepreneurial activities: the Rotterdam Sustainable Dance Club;
Formula Zero (hydrogen fuel cell racing); the Friesland Solar-boat
Challenge; the Mitka for Nike; portable electric vehicles;
SustainableRotterdam.com; home biogas generators; bamboo products... In
the Netherlands, as in Australia, the reality of climate change is
shifting the focus of design and innovation from eco-products to new
services, new institutions new life-styles and to greater engagement of
the community in re-inventing the future. 

Sustainability Victoria, the City of Melbourne, the Victorian
Eco-Innovation Lab, SustainableMelbourne.com and Design Victoria are
pleased to invite you to this important free public lecture by an
important ECO-LEAD visitor to Melbourne*.

Wednesday 6 February 2008 6pm to 7.30pm (followed by drinks) Carillo
Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, 

University of Melbourne (Swanston Street, opposite end of Faraday
Street, Carlton). Click Here
<http://designvictoria.cmail5.com/l/323442/c1jtil1j/www.services.unimelb
.edu.au/venuehire/general/maps.html>  for a map of the campus.

Please RSVP by
Friday 1 February 2008 to Sustainable Melbourne Coordinator, Ferne
Edwards fedwards at unimelb.edu.au. <mailto:fedwards at unimelb.edu.au>  

Professor Han Brezet is head of the oldest Design for Sustainability
program in Europe at the Technical University of Delft. He is the City
Innovator for Rotterdam, charged with generating new interests,
possibilities and collaborations, for the future of Rotterdam. He has
focused on the creation 
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of 'creative city platforms for change', bringing together designers and
design students with industry, government and the community to envision
new possibilities for Rotterdam's development. He is also one of three
judges for the "Best Ideas of The Netherlands" TV reality show - one of
the most popular reality television shows on Dutch TV in which thousands
of people compete to get their 'invention' to the market (think The New
Inventors meets Australian Idol).

Prof Brezet is also a leader of the research and

development program of the Cartesius Institute for Sustainable
Innovation in Friesland and a Professorial Fellow of the Australian
Centre for Science, Innovation and Society (ACSIS) at the University of
Melbourne. 

This lecture will contribute to the development of Future Melbourne, the
City of Melbourne's plan for the future of the city in 2020 and beyond.

* '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).

 
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