About Saving the Planet In Style
Saving the Planet In Style is an initiative for sustainable design led by Svensk Form (the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design). The aim of the initative is to open up for collaborations, creative meetings, new knowledge and greater innovations within sustainable design. Above all we want to contribute to the development of sustainable products and services through promoting a market for companies that dare to make the jump.
We all have to work toward a sustainable development, a positive development for humans and for our world. Design can solve problems and see possibilities, which gives design unique opportunities to visualise possible futures and show ways to go forward.
New kinds of products and services are vital in a changing world. New ways of living have to be invented, design can be a part of this as it concerns itself with how humans interact with products.
Products wear out. When replacing them think about the sentences below.
You know you are saving the planet in style when:
The design makes the people producing, using and handling it happier.
The materials and energy involved in making and using the design are fit to the purpose and give rather than take from natural resources.
Saving the Planet In Style wants to contribute to a long term thinking design culture within a sustainable society through connecting creators within design, different kinds of organisations and companies, and by showing the advantages in being in the forefront. This website hopes to work both as a window to show good examples and a meeting place for anyone interested or involved in sustainable design. Our focus is on Swedish design, yet we strive to reflect international trends and debates and to take part in evolving these.
Saving the Planet In Style hopes to inspire the designer to new ways to use the designer tool, but also to help the producer to see possibilities in a more sustainable production and to visualise a new kind of beautiful everyday to the consumer.
- Designers today want to help solving problems that really matter, and we see a shift towards more human-centerd design. This is no news to Swedish Design, built on a long tradition of user focused, innovative, affordable and socially engaged design. Always practical, but sometimes perhaps too serious. Through Saving the Planet in Style we want to introduce a more playful attitude, while still facing the large social, economic and ecological challenges of today. – Ewa Kumlin, managing director Svensk
Please look at our involve page to get ideas on how you as a designer, entreprenuer or producer can work with sustainable design.
History
Saving the Planet In Style was started as a campaign by the design network O2 Nordic in 2003 to widen the knowledge and market of sustainable design in Sweden. As a part of the campaign O2 Nordic exhibited in several design fairs and arranged a design competition. After the competition Svensk Form saw the possibility of developing the concept of Saving the Planet In Style within Svensk Form and decided to make sustainable design one of their main goals to work with. This website is one of the tools to realize the visions of Saving the Planet In Style.
