Event – John Thackara https://thackara.com designing for life Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:07:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 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)

]]> 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.

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]]> Space 10, Copenhagen https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/space-10-copenhagen/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:39:32 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10699 It was a thrill to follow in the steps of Tomorrow’s Meatball. We were invited by the Danish Design Centre to run an “Ask Me Anything” lunch at Copenhagen’s latest creative innovation lab, Space 10. Our free-ranging discussion revolved around design thinking, business models, emergent technologies, complex challenges and sustainability.

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