Good Ideas Salons » Design

(Video) PSFK Talks To Hiromi Matsubara About Pure Living

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:58:50 +0000

In partnership with Nissan, PSFK held an event on October 20 2009 to discuss the future of Pure Living in Tokyo. Piers Fawkes, founder of PSFK, moderated a conversation with an international panel of experts and covered topics that included sustainability, design, urban planning, technology and zero-emission mobility.

Before the event, PSFK spoke with Hiromi Matsubara about her views on pure living.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

(Video) PSFK Talks To Rie Azuma About Pure Living

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:53:01 +0000

Before the event, PSFK spoke with Rie Azuma about her views on pure living.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

(Video) PSFK Talks To Danny Choo About Pure Living

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:52 +0000

Before the event, PSFK spoke with Danny Choo about his views on pure living.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

(Video) PSFK Talks To Marc Alt About Pure Living

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:40:47 +0000

Just before the event, we spoke to Marc Alt (Green Visionary, Founder at Marc Alt + Partners) about his thoughts on ‘Pure Living’ and how he saw it manifesting itself in the world today.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

(Video) PSFK Talks To Mark Dytham About Pure Living

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:34:35 +0000

Just before the event, we spoke to Mark Dytham (Creative Catalyst, Partner at Klein Dytham architecture, and Founder of Pecha Kucha) about his thoughts on ‘Pure Living’ and how he saw it manifesting itself in the world today.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

(Video) PSFK Talks To Peter Rojas About Pure Living

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:38 +0000

Peter Rojas, founder of gdgt spoke with PSFK before the event about his views on pure living.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

(Video) The Future of Nissan and Pure Living

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:52:21 +0000

In this video, Francois Bancon, Nissan’s General Manager, Marketing and Communication Group, Global Zero Emission Business Unit, took a few minutes to chat with the audience about Nissan’s vision for a zero-emission future. Bancon openly admitted that Nissan doesn’t have all the answers to our future mobility issues, and urged the crowd to share their thoughts and insights.

Let us know in the comments what message you would like to send Nissan about the future of mobility.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

(Video) Good Ideas In Pure Living with Danny Choo, Hiromi Matsubara & Rie Azu

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:43:06 +0000

In partnership with Nissan, PSFK held an event on October 20 2009 to discuss the future of Pure Living in Tokyo. Piers Fawkes, founder of PSFK, moderated a conversation with a panel of Japan-based experts and covered topics that included sustainability, design, urban planning, technology and zero-emission mobility.

Video of the talk can be found (and shared) below. The experts on the panel (left to right) were Hiromi Matsubara (Green Media Activist, Co-founder, Greenz.jp), Rie Azuma (Lifestyle Architect, Azuma Architecture) sat beside an interpreter and Danny Choo (Japan Sub-Culture Authority, Mirai Inc., dannychoo.com).

The panel discussed bringing simplicity and a nature focus back to the forefront of design thinking as well as a return to physicality, face to face interactions and working with our hands. Service and resource sharing were also brought up as a viable way to decrease consumption.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

(Video) Good Ideas In Pure Living with Marc Alt, Mark Dytham & Peter Rojas

Tokyo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:36:35 +0000

Video of the talk can be found (and shared) below. Left to right, the experts on the panel were Mark Dytham (Creative Catalyst, Partner at Klein Dytham architecture and Founder of Pecha Kucha), Peter Rojas (Technology Guru, Founder at gdgt), and Marc Alt (Green Visionary, Founder at Marc Alt + Partners).

The panel discussed a variety of ideas from resource sharing to product life cycles, as well as different feedback mechanisms that can guide sustainable everyday behavior. They also fleshed out a new vision of electric cars as a kind of gadget and mobile battery, exploring how our relationship to cars is changing as they become a mobile infrastructure and more of a service rather than a product.

To catch all the images, video and discussion around this event – visit www.psfk.com/pureliving

Video: Good Ideas in Design, London

London — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:25:20 +0000

This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. For our Good Ideas in Design session, long time PSFK contributor Amanda Gore led an eclectic panel, including Cameron Leslie, founder of the Fabric and Matter nightclubs, Coralie Bickford-Smith, designer of amazing book covers for Penguin books, Kate Moross, creative extraordinaire, and Nicolas Roope, founder of Poke and Hulger in a conversation on how design can-and must- weave a story between an audience and a product, service, and brand.

The panel spoke quite extensively about the creative process and there seemed to be a general consensus amongst the panelist that playfulness and experimentation are crucial to good design. A well designed product should reflect a designers commitment to the product – and by creating appealing products, designers have the ability to build authentic relationship with their communities.