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.

  1. Only work for the greater good
  2. Collaborate
  3. Develop facilitation and integration skills
  4. Be prepared to relinquish control
  5. But challenge your assumptions on what ‘good’ is
  6. Develop tools of criticality
  7. Be entrepreneurial
  8. Deploy sustainable design and innovation tools within organisations
  9. Find and support passionate leaders
  10. Teach and learn
  11. Develop a form of Service Notation
  12. Be proactive and be prepared to work pro-bono
  13. Observe and measure the long-term effects
  14. Form long-term relationships
  15. Be committed to issues and problems
  16. Maintain curiosity

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