The first Sustainability Café of the Spring 2010 series will be held on Tuesday, March 2 from 12:10 - 1:05PM in Friends Hall Room 309. Professor Xanthe Matychak will lead an investigation of "The relationships between Sustainability and Innovation."The first Sustainability Café of the Spring 2010 series will be held on Tuesday, March 2 from 12:10 - 1:05PM in Friends Hall Room 309. Professor Xanthe Matychak will lead an investigation of "The relationships between Sustainability and Innovation."
In this discussion, Professor Matychak will review two, three-ringed models to find synergies as well as tensions between and among them all:
1. A Model for Sustainability that encompasses "The Three Ps":
a. People
b. Profit, and
c. Planet
2. A Model for Innovation that encompasses:
a. Human-Centered Design
b. Business, and
c. Technology
From there, Matychak will review the "Life Cycle Assessment Wheel" from the Okala Curriculum and discuss how points on that wheel change when viewed through a sustainability model and an innovation model. Matychak promises that "this all sounds kind of nerdy, but really, it's fun." It sounds fascinating. Don't miss it!
Xanthe Matychak teaches Design-thinking and Creativity in the Saunders College of Business and in the new Innovation Center at RIT. Her research interests include sustainability, social and mobile phone networking, micro-lending and localism, and design pedagogy. She has presented her work at the International Association of Science, Technology, and Society (IASTS), the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and most recently, she was an invited guest to the NSF workshop on Design-as-Instruction at Stanford's d.school.
"Teachable edibles" -- seasonal, organic, and/or local foods -- for the Spring 2010 Sustainability Café series are being supported by Ithaca College Dining Services. Please bring your reusable mug and fill up at the drinking fountain or provide your beverage of choice.
All Sustainability Café events are free and open to the public.
Drink in a new way to think in the Sustainability Café.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20100223133558281