Working Toward Sustainability
This list was developed during Oliver King’s panel How Service Design Could Have Saved the World as an actionable answer to how we can save the world.
- Only work for the greater good
- Collaborate
- Develop facilitation and integration skills
- Be prepared to relinquish control
- But challenge your assumptions on what ‘good’ is
- Develop tools of criticality
- Be entrepreneurial
- Deploy sustainable design and innovation tools within organisations
- Find and support passionate leaders
- Teach and learn
- Develop a form of Service Notation
- Be proactive and be prepared to work pro-bono
- Observe and measure the long-term effects
- Form long-term relationships
- Be committed to issues and problems
- Maintain curiosity
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