{"id":8675,"date":"2017-08-02T10:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2018-04-06T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T09:30:20","slug":"how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging designers to tackle climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That\u2019s the question we\u2019ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do\u2019s Climate Action Challenge<\/a>.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

In collaboration with What Design Can Do<\/a> (WDCD) and the other partners, the IKEA Foundation<\/a> and the Autodesk Foundation<\/a>, our task was to develop the briefs and background information for the Climate Action Challenge, a competition open to students, start-ups and professionals who can win funding and an acceleration programme to realise their ideas.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Adapting to climate change, not mitigating it<\/strong><\/p>\n

Together with the project partners we decided to focus on <\/span>adaptation<\/span><\/i> to climate change rather than\u00a0<\/span>mitigation<\/span><\/i> (limiting the cause of climate change). That\u2019s because reducing greenhouse gas emissions, at this point, should be a given, whereas there is still not enough attention on how humans can adapt to (and survive) a hotter planet and the increasingly severe disaster and weather events that come with it. Our focus was to make sense of climate adaptation, and to help designers understand the problem so that they could design solutions for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The central question for our research was: <\/span>What can design do to ease the consequences of climate change?<\/span><\/i> We wanted to cover the areas most urgently threatened by climate change while making the challenge appealing to all kinds of designers working on all kinds of levels, from the personal to the systemic. Finally, we also wanted to encourage designers to root their solutions in their local area, rather designing for unfamiliar places.<\/span><\/p>\n

A briefing generator<\/strong><\/p>\n

To fit in all these layers of complexity, we came up with a unique solution: a briefing generator<\/a>. Entrants first choose a design strategy (from storytelling to service design or system transformation), then a topic (food, water, housing, energy, health) and finally their region. A customised brief is then generated, with a challenge and an opportunity. <\/span><\/p>\n

The four design strategies were designed so that they would speak to certain kinds of designers, without restricting them to their discipline or day job. Filmmakers could opt for \u2018system transformation\u2019; service designers could, if they wish, choose to tell a story instead of designing a service. <\/span><\/p>\n

Allowing the entrants to adjust the briefs to fit to their area is also better because they know a lot more than we do about the problems there, and a lot more about the socio-cultural factors that need to be considered to solve them. The phrase \u2018Think global, act local\u2019 is very apt for climate change, as its consequences are so varied from location to location. This is why we designed the briefs so that designers and experts can do their own research and find out for themselves where local problems are, rather than us determining it for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Putting people at the centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

The key to this entire process was putting people at the centre. Whether interviewing designers, reading hundred-page-long official reports, or iterating on the brief matrix, we were always asking ourselves: What is the impact on people? What difference can people make? In every iteration we got a little closer to answering these questions, and we tried to write the briefs and challenge guide to encourage entrants to answer them too.<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenge process<\/strong><\/p>\n

The challenge will be open until August 21st and you can apply here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the initial submissions are in, an expert panel will pick a list of nominees, and give them feedback so that they can refine their ideas before a final deadline. <\/span><\/p>\n

An international jury will then choose five winners, who will share an award package worth \u20ac900,000 which includes a production budget and an acceleration program aimed at making their ideas, prototypes or start-ups market- and investment ready. STBY is one of the partners who will be mentoring these five winners. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is the second global design challenge launched by What Design Can Do, following last year\u2019s Refugee Challenge<\/a>. All five winners of that challenge are still working with their idea, with one already up and running as a social enterprise and others working with local governments and other partners to realise their idea. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That\u2019s the question we\u2019ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do\u2019s Climate Action Challenge. In collaboration with What Design Can Do (WDCD) and the other partners, the IKEA Foundation and the Autodesk Foundation, our task was … Continue reading Challenging designers to tackle climate change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[307,308,309,310,305],"client-domain":[],"service-context":[],"methods-used":[117,120],"yoast_head":"\nChallenging designers to tackle climate change - ..STBY...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That\u2019s the question we\u2019ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do\u2019s Climate Action Challenge.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Challenging designers to tackle climate change - ..STBY...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That\u2019s the question we\u2019ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do\u2019s Climate Action Challenge.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"..STBY...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-02T08:42:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-04-06T09:30:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/climate-change-plaatje.001.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"STBY\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"STBY\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/\",\"name\":\"Challenging designers to tackle climate change - ..STBY...\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-02T08:42:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-04-06T09:30:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#\/schema\/person\/50e6ec0573d55583962513a01d74ec2b\"},\"description\":\"How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That\u2019s the question we\u2019ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do\u2019s Climate Action Challenge.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Challenging designers to tackle climate change\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/\",\"name\":\"..STBY...\",\"description\":\"Design Research for meaningful change\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#\/schema\/person\/50e6ec0573d55583962513a01d74ec2b\",\"name\":\"STBY\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3121d263d0913d59c58d86f43200ca7b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3121d263d0913d59c58d86f43200ca7b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"STBY\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Challenging designers to tackle climate change - ..STBY...","description":"How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That\u2019s the question we\u2019ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do\u2019s Climate Action Challenge.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Challenging designers to tackle climate change - ..STBY...","og_description":"How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That\u2019s the question we\u2019ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do\u2019s Climate Action Challenge.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/","og_site_name":"..STBY...","article_published_time":"2017-08-02T08:42:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-04-06T09:30:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":768,"url":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/climate-change-plaatje.001.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"STBY","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"STBY","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/","url":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/","name":"Challenging designers to tackle climate change - ..STBY...","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-08-02T08:42:30+00:00","dateModified":"2018-04-06T09:30:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#\/schema\/person\/50e6ec0573d55583962513a01d74ec2b"},"description":"How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That\u2019s the question we\u2019ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do\u2019s Climate Action Challenge.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/2017\/08\/02\/how-can-we-challenge-designers-to-tackle-climate-change\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Challenging designers to tackle climate change"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/","name":"..STBY...","description":"Design Research for meaningful change","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#\/schema\/person\/50e6ec0573d55583962513a01d74ec2b","name":"STBY","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3121d263d0913d59c58d86f43200ca7b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3121d263d0913d59c58d86f43200ca7b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"STBY"},"url":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8675"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8678,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions\/8678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"client-domain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/client-domain?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"service-context","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service-context?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"methods-used","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stby.eu\/wp_15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/methods-used?post=8675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}