Possible connections to the Design GAC from other GACs

Faith GAC

‘carbon tax on nations to then put into the moral economy’

‘values audit’ on companies

Benchmarking progress: happiness vs well-being vs contentment essentially an index on well-being

how to represent ideas so that decisions that could be made around sustainability

Sustainable Construction GAC

question of how to get beyond GDP to evaluate economies?

moving status from ownership to happiness.

how to design happy lives that use 1 Ton of carbon and only 5 Tonnes of non-renewable resources.

how to create inspiration from a different aspiration.

people should be inspired by the consequence of the choices. Mohkena

‘creating need drives greed’

Biodiversity/Oceans

needed a pubic information campaign

they really needed a communication design package

potentially a sustainability index that an individual understands

Humanitarian GAC

design a system to coordinate an international NGO /National etc for humanitarian disasters

Cities GAC

they want a typology of cities

cities are very similar, so there needs to be a mechanism for them to get together more.

Catastrophic Risks

creae a Intergovernmental panel for CR similar to the IPCC

Urban Mobility

cites are now more congested and lots of CO2 is emitted from traffic.

would like for us to create design briefs for transport interfaces

design brief for designers to design streets for all modes of transportation

transit depends alot on gov’t policy. these need to be made more transparent so that citizens understand the implications better.

Innovation GAC

they did nothing last year. now they are working on their identity and their tasks.

experiments yet to be determined.

Ageing society

if you can contribute to society, then you will live longer. need to find a way to enhance the participation of the elderly in society longer. need to design a continued contribution to society that is value adding. ACTIVE AGING

the pension system is not longer viable.

Chronic Disease

75% of all chronic disease is caused by smoking, eating not exercising. thus, anything the Design GAC can do to help with this area.

population growth

since it is ‘manifest’ there is a huge debate as to what to do. there is a need for a global system of growth management.

success is shown by using ‘for example…’ to DEMONSTRATE what we are talking about….

Introductions at the GAC of each of the members present:

Tim Brown – IDEO – San Francisco. an interest in sustainabiltiy and water.

Paola Antonelli – MOMA – NYC – contemporary design. wants to explain what design is; provide case studies; look for other councils to work with

Craig Branegan – part of WPP – San Francisco – Landor – more from the business side of design; wants to expand his view of design and how it can impact broader issues

Sundir – Elephant Design – Western India – design thinking is the only process which can change attitudes in india. been working on the older sectors in india to help this transition

Toshiko Mori – Architect; Small Think Tank called Vision Art just founded. wants to use design to translate goals for other councils to the

Alice – Design Critic – London – Design enthusiast and mediator – hope for another invigorating discussion and impact. we are not one of the ‘key councils’ but we can have and must have impacts.

Brian Collins – NYC – Intersections of the disciplines allow us to discover things that we were not aware of. personal interest in sustainability. bias to make things have tangible consequences. to help make things visible and get things done

Kigge – INDEX – Copenhagen – focusing on education and hoping to work with that council.

Kohe – Tokyo – Elephant Design – interested in the participatory process of design

John – Brown School of Design – the problem with conferences to change problems is that you never know what the problems are that we really can work on. very interested in the faith group. faith has been a huge driver and especially for this region.

Chris – Arup – London/SFO – focus on foresight by design and considering the next 40 years will bring. using design thinking to bear on plausible futures. growing interest in oceans.

Mokena – Arch/Urban Design – Cape Town – Design is a human right and something that can be synthetic and design thinking will be the way through the challenges which we see today.

Emma – WEF – full time job is prgramme development for Davos and Dalien. passion is to support and push Design into and thru the Forum activities.

Jens – Copenhagen – Design is not necessarily about humans. personal interst in urban mobility and or city groups, as well as values.

met Terry Hill, Alistair Guthrie and Brian Collins for dinner thursday evening. good to catch up on each of the councils agendas. we talked quite a bit about how to the sustainability dialogue into the mainstream of every corporation, nation and household.

met and had a really interesting long chat with Larry Brilliant who was sitting with Lawrence Bloom from London. Discovered that Larry lives in MV! will get together when back.

opening session

full house opened by Andre Shhneider. Klaus is in Switzerland with a chest infection.

Lord Malloch-Brown is responsible for making sure that the GRI will be successful

Rick Samans will be leading this from the Forum side.

LM-B. This is a story of two platforms. one is the opportunity to discuss amoungst ourselves. the other platform is the burning platform outside of these walls around the world. he rambled quite a bit about the global challenges and the opportunity that this places.

RS. described the process which is expected to take place over the next 48 hours. there are supposed to be a series of two-page drafts of the real big issues which should be engaged by the GACs. these two pagers will be collected in a book that will be given out at Davos. there is a specific request for proposals for how to improve international organizations. these should be ready by mid december. Determine your own agenda. we expect to see concrete ideas coming forward. the world is in a crazy idea period. 5% of GDP was spent to bail out the global financial systems, now double digit deficit spending is also becoming the norm. there is a new normal being defined. what are the new structures that are appropriate?

Mohammed Alabbar joined with his words of welcome. ‘the most powerful brainstorming session in the world’ thinking about the issues that are of such vital nature to the future of the world. last year we sat here during the eye of the storm. we hope that we have learned a bit more. the past twelve months ahve been quite painful. many have tried to get to the bottom of the issues. we tried our best, but there was a lot of pain. some feel that we are thru it, but others not. we are certain that we will be able to give better advice now. we now know that debt is in the trillions, unemployment increasing, banks in difficult times……with all the intelligence in the world, how could this happen????? is this not a baffling question?

if we look at the Middle East. of course, we have been imp[acted. we are used to war and conflict, but not financial crises. this is really the fist time that this has happened to us. due to the lack of experience we are also learning. this brings me to Dubai. it has been in the news as the darling with fantastic stories. during the GFC the city has also been in the news. in the end, it all comes down to leadership and the stability of the leadership. he has shown this and we believe in it. Dubai is the hub of 350 million people in the middle east. The population continues to grow as does the Airport and infrastructure.

He is very upbeat and positive. and, mindful of the responsibility which those in this room share. three questions to think about:

1. if you were a citizen of another country, would your decision/recommendation be the same?

2. if you were out of work, poor and uneducated…would your decision be just?

3. will your ideas and recommendations truly improved the state of the world?