Thanks for the info Cameron,
As I remember, you were instrumental in the setting of the redesign direction in the Victorian Eco Innovation Lab workshops at the beginning of this year.
Regards,
Mark Richardson
Cameron Tonkinwise <[log in to unmask]> wrote:>
> This collective blog may be of interest:
> http://www.superuse.org/
> Cameron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Richardson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:40 pm
> Subject: Redesign
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>> Dear Francois, Chris and all,
>>
>>
>>
>> We, at Monash, RMIT and Melbourne Universities (as a Victorian Eco
>> Innovation Lab initiative www.ecoinnovationlab.com) are currently
>> running an inter-university collaborative pilot study which may be
>> relevant to the instigation design discussion. We have been
>> developing a design system of component re-use which we have coined
>> ‘redesign’. Redesign poses the possibilities of extended
>> personalisation, mass customisation, component reuse and
>> alternative product life-cycles. We are interested in testing new
>> methods and strategies which could become commercially viable in
>> the Australian and Asia-Pacific region for a probable future of
>> legislated Extended Product Responsibility, Carbon offsetting and
>> growing concern for increasing landfill levels.
>>
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Transport Design Coordinator / Ph.D. candidate
Monash University
Faculty of Art & Design
Department of Design, Industrial Design
900 Dandenong Rd
Caulfield East 3145
Victoria, Australia
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