Sustainability

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Chief Design Officer (Maternity cover) It’s been a month since the second edition of Design for Planet Festival 2022 and I wanted to reflect on the definition of action in the context of design practice and processes. Design is almost always about action. Something is planned, scoped, then…

My husband and I often quote The Simpsons and say that we fill the void of not having children by ‘sleeping in late, foreign travel and gourmet food.’ The pandemic just left us with a lot of sleeping but now that we are vaccinated and moving forward (as best we…

Gazelle’s unique experience at one of southern Africa’s largest Agricultural Shows and outlook on Botswana beef exports — Every year Ghanzi, a small town of no more than 20,000 in the northwest Kalahari, swells in size from ranchers, vendors and civilians pouring in by the tens of thousands. The town is the regional administrative capital for Botswana’s Ghanzi District- one of its ten administrative zones.

Although 2022 seems to be closing on a rough note in terms of layoffs and the global situation in general, there are still plenty of things to be optimistic about for designers in 2023. …

By Greeshma Gadikota Here are three painful, well-known truths of life in the 21st century: (1) Carbon dioxide from burning oil & gas is trapping heat in the atmosphere and acidifying the oceans. (2) Industrial processes such as cement, steel, and energy critical metal production create tremendous amounts of carbon…