Portfolio – John Thackara https://thackara.com designing for life Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:07:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Leathershed Lab, India https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/10715/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:05:08 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10715 Together with our friends at the Unbox Festival in Delhi, and designer Mansi Gupta, we went the heart of India’s largest leather-producing region. We discussed ways to develop products and services that combine clean forms of leather making with direct connections between between producers and customers. (Leathershed Lab, India)

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]]> Together with our friends at the Unbox Festival in Delhi, and designer Mansi Gupta, we went the heart of India’s largest leather-producing region. We discussed ways to develop products and services that combine clean forms of leather making with direct connections between between producers and customers. (Leathershed Lab, India)

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]]> Service Innovation, Santiago, Chile https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/service-innovation-santiago-chile/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:01:06 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10713 We ran a Pro-Am workshop on service design (below) during the Service Design Congress held in 2015 at the  Universidad Católica de Chile

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]]> We ran a Pro-Am workshop on service design (below) during the Service Design Congress held in 2015 at the  Universidad Católica de Chile

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]]> Lab for Change Makers, Amsterdam https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/lab-for-change-makers-amsterdam/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:59:02 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10709 What is an economy actually for? Together with de Waag, we invited social change makers, inventive life hackers and enthusiastic self-organized communities to explore the power of small actions to transform the bigger picture. waag.org/en/event/lab-change-makers

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]]> What is an economy actually for? Together with de Waag, we invited social change makers, inventive life hackers and enthusiastic self-organized communities to explore the power of small actions to transform the bigger picture.

waag.org/en/event/lab-change-makers

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]]> Wild work: connecting the social and ecological by design https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/wild-work-connecting-the-social-and-ecological-by-design/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:55:57 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10705 A week of workshops at California College of the Arts, San Francisco (John is shown with our host Leslie Carol Roberts). An explosion of new economy models is surfacing all around the world: Sharing. Peer-to-Peer. Commons’ ownership. Mobility as a service. Bioregions. Local money. Transition Towns.  Something is happening - but is there a pattern?

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]]> A week of workshops at California College of the Arts, San Francisco (John is shown with our host Leslie Carol Roberts). An explosion of new economy models is surfacing all around the world: Sharing. Peer-to-Peer. Commons’ ownership. Mobility as a service. Bioregions. Local money. Transition Towns.  Something is happening – but is there a pattern?

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]]> Re-thinking urban-rural mobility, Vienna https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/re-thinking-urban-rural-mobility-vienna/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:43:47 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10702 Together with StadtFabrik (City Factory) - MAK Vienna's real-time research lab - we helped a multi-disciplinary group  develop a new story about mobility and infrastructure in Vienna. Our guest projects were Biotope City; Komobile,who design decision-support software for cargo bike systems; and Cargo Bike Collective.

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]]> Together with StadtFabrik (City Factory) – MAK Vienna’s real-time research lab – we helped a multi-disciplinary group  develop a new story about mobility and infrastructure in Vienna. Our guest projects were Biotope City; Komobile,who design decision-support software for cargo bike systems; and Cargo Bike Collective.

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