Sue Alouche, Creativite ConsultantsMars 2013 Droog design rag chair.This chair is layered from the contents of 15 bags of rags. Each piece is unique; a treasureChest of memories.

Let's take it slow...

Sue Alouche

Consultant, workshop facilitator, visiting lecturer, writer.28 years design strategy experience in London Design Consultancies, such as Terence Conran Associates, The Design Solution.Founder of Eureka! "sustainable design" agency in London.Founder of Créativité Consultants for the last 7 years in France.Specialisms: branding communications, empathy and aging design.Workshop facilitator and visiting lecturer for l'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique, Audencia management School and ESC Rennes.Launch of 1st book jointly written. October 2012. What's the difference that makes the difference?

Carlo Petrini, President and Founder of the International Slow Food Movement. In 1986 he took part in a campaign against the fast food chain McDonald’s opening near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair. www.slowfood.co

"Where the hamburger is planted, Roquefort dies." Carlo Petrini.

The Slow Movement "la déco écolo-éthique" Timeline• Slow food 1986 Carlo Petrini, Italy. Campaign against

fast food.

• Slow cities 1999 "Cittá Slow" Italy. Festina lente - take some time to take some time. Tuscany and Umbria.

• Slow design 2002 coined by Alistair Fuad-Luke in his paper 'Slow Design' - a paradigm for living sustainably?"

• Slow fashion 2007 (pas "fast fashion" ou "McFashion") Kate Fletcher UK Centre for Sustainable Fashion.

• Slow travel 2008 'A manifesto for slow travel'. Inspiré par Théophile Gautier - 1843. (writer, poet, reactionary contre "le cult de fast")

• Slow living 2009 Beth Meredith and Eric Storm, "Slow Living - Learning to Savor and Fully Engage with Life".

• Slow Tech 2011 Exhibition organised by Henrietta Thompson, Wallpaper and Protein. 2012. 'Critical Reflection and Future Direction Conference'. Odom, Banks, Durrant, Kirk, Pierce.

Slow Chair designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec in 2006/2008. Material inspired by tights. Ergonomically Cosy and comfortable.

THE slow people...

Alastair Fuad-Luke is an itinerant sustainable design lecturer, writer and designer-maker delivering lectures, workshops and talks in UK and overseas. He sees a new emerging role for designers in the sustainability debate – as facilitators and enablers. He is collaborating with Carolyn F Strauss Founder and Director of SlowLab to develop slow design teaching materials. After completing a degree in architecture, she began her professional career exploring the intersection of design, technology and cultural research. She is the founder of slowlab.net

The Six Slow Design principles

• Reveal

• Expand

• Reflect

• Engage

• Participate

• Evolve

'Changing the Change, Design Visions, Processes, Tools.' 2006.

Carolyn F Strauss and Alastair Fuad-Luke. www.slowlab.net

Reveal. Life before the fridge. Jihyun Ryou "Save food from the fridge".

• REVEAL experiences lost or forgotten. Including materials and processes.

Gesture workshop Karmenn Franinovic. Experimenting with habitual and unusual sonic gestures through everyday objects Touch in everyday places "Life without objects" (with Stefano Mirti and Edoardo Brambilla), Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, 2003

• REVEAL experiences lost or forgotten. Including materials and processes.

Julia Lohmann uses dried kelp from Japan and Ireland, which she soaks, stretches and varnishes and then uses to create her kelp lamps.

• EXPAND. real and potential expressions of artifacts or environments.

"Jam the communication channels." The Social Timer is "the kind of thing your mum would use." A tabletop object that disables communication for a short amount of time, such as a family dinner. The timers have Facebook and Twitter symbols on the top like salt and pepper shakers, as a subtle reminder of their purpose. The Social Bomb forces everyone to take a break by covertly cutting off all forms of technology. Afshin Mehin, Hugo Eccles'.

Exhibit at The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, NY, rural craft traditions and slow methodologies in American history still have such resonance in contemporary making and slow fashion production.

• EXPAND. real and potential expressions of artifacts or environments.

Monika Hoinkis humanising the object. Give your umbrella a hug. Your compass points to you. The lamp you have to support. Toildrops performance, levitating garden.

• EXPAND. real and potential expressions of artifacts or environments.

Life is Suite. Imagined stories from the past. Raw Nerve, London. Icelander, Katrin Svana Eyþórsdóttir's Chandelier. A cascade of highly reflective glucose droplets requiring no electricity and lasting 3 months. Use With Care. A rattan basket by Alastair Fuad-Luke tips over if it is filled too fast.

• REFLECT. Artifacts, environments, experiences which induce reflection. "Reflective Consumption".

In a white environment you could enjoy a moment of ‘going slow’; with Droog Design, Netherlands, at the Milan Furniture Fair 2004. Senior people flew in to offer a bite and a drink with their distance menu. Their service was slow but attentive. This concept is now a pop-up slow cafe.

• REFLECT. Artifacts, environments, experiences which induce reflection. "Reflective Consumption".

Thor Ter Kulve, Amsterdam, was curious as to whether the spaces where he played as a child were still used by kids today. Kulve printed a map on a pillowcase for the local hotel, so that at the end of a day exploring, the child can sleep with her/his memories.

• REFLECT. Artifacts, environments, experiences which induce reflection. "Reflective Consumption".

Human Chair needs no materials and it bonds people together. Tread carpet made of footprints by women artisans in Murcia. Marjoral shop. All by Martin Azua, Basque country.

• Engage - processes, open source, collaborative, relying on sharing, co-operation, transparency of information, allowing future evolution.

Participate - NairoBits - Butterfly Works - Positive Chain Of Events. A Digital Design School where young people from Nairobi`s slums are trained as web designers and cultural entrepreneurs.

• Participate. Encourage conviviality, exchange, social responsibility, enhancement of communities.

Photobox, How will digital photo collections be meaningfully experienced over time. A device intended to be used over many years, which occasionally prints a randomly selected photo from an owner’s Flickr collection inside of a wooden chest. Microsoft Research, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Nottingham, Newcastle University.

• Evolve. The dynamic maturation of objects over time. Looks beyond the needs of the present day.

Incredible edible. Todmorton, UK. Les « incroyables comestibles » C’est une démarche entreprise librement par des habitants souverains qui ont souhaité se relier entre eux par la pratique de la culture locale des fruits et légumes, et le partage de leur récolte.

• Evolve. The dynamic maturation of objects over time. Looks beyond the needs of the present day.

To conclude: Slow Design is in practice:

• Longer design processes with more time for research, contemplation, real life impact tests, and fine tuning.

• Design for manufacturing with local or regional materials and technologies or design that supports local industries, workshops, and craftspeople.

• Design that takes into account local or regional culture both as a source of inspiration and as an important consideration for the design outcome.

• Design that studies the concept of natural time cycles and incorporates them into design and manufacturing processes.

• Design that looks at longer cycles of human behavior and sustainability.

• Design that takes into account deeper well being and the findings of positive psychology

What's next... Slow 'high-rise'?

Slow Up-rising" by Canadian firm Ja Studio for Solar Park South, the international ideas competition in Calabria, Italy. The competition brief called for a 'Solar Highway' by re-using Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway sections between Scilla and Bagnara to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways.

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