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Alastair Fuad-Luke 1. Biography 2. Key research areas & interests 3. Scientific & academic curriculum 4. Teaching curriculum 5. Selected keynotes & talks 6. Selected publications 7. Professional experience 8. Education 9. Miscellania

1. Biography

I am a sustainable design facilitator, consultant, educator, writer and activist with over seventeen years experience in Europe and internationally. I challenge how design is applied to societal, ecological, educational and economic-political issues and have been actively contributing to design’s own transition through my work with eco-/slow/co-/social design. My books include Agents of Alternatives (2015, with Anja-Lisa Hirscher & Katharina Moebus), Design Activism (2009), The Eco-Design Handbook (2002, 2005 and 2009) and The Eco-Travel Handbook (2008). I joined the Free University of Bozen Bolzano in May 2016. Prior to this I was Professor of Emerging Design Practices, at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto ARTS), Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 2011-2016, and a Professor Auxiliar Convidado at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, 2014-2016. During my time in Finland I worked with LADEC, Lahti Region Development, to develop a ‘design eco-system’ for the ‘cleantech’ city and raise the capacity for co-design among designers, other professionals and communities. I have contributed to several European Union research programmes, including an Eco-innovera programme called Support Systems for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Transformation (SHIFT) for Aalto ARTS, 2012-2016; and a Leonardo Da Vinci programme, Design Education and Sustainability (DEEDS) project, 2006-2008. In the past I have worked with private companies, local municipalities and the Design Council in the UK to encourage better eco-design. I founded and managed an ecological landscape design and build company in the UK from 1980 to 1990, working with Dutch and Swiss companies. In the 1990s I worked in the photomedia industry creating the first searchable digital image libraries with Hulton Deutsch (now Getty Images) and for the Observer newspaper, UK. My passion is to encourage society-wide engagement with design as a means to re-imagine and create more fulfilling and sustainable lives.

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Faculty of Design and Art www.unibz.it [email protected] www.fuad-luke.com [email protected]

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2. Key research areas & interests

The telos of my current research endeavours is to ask how design can help contribute to: Enabling new ways of making, producing and consuming Creating new livelihoods and alternative economies Better supporting new eco-social organisations and enterprises Scaling-up of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) and agri-cultures Developing re-directive practices for sustainability transition Evolving new educational approaches

3. Scientific & academic curriculum

Full professor, Free University of Bozen Bolzano, Italy, May 2016-present Full professor, Aalto ARTS (School of Arts, Design & Architecture) Aalto Univeristy, Helsinki, Finland 2011-2016 Visiting professor, Dept. of Communication & Arts, Aveiro University, Aveiro, Portugal, 2014-2016 Postgraduate Programme Leader for Masters Courses, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK, 2010-2011 Principle lecturer, Dept. of Design & Architecture, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, 2006-2008 Programme Leader & Senior Lecturer, University of Creative Arts, Farnham, UK, 2005-2007 Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader (Post-graduate Diploma), Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK, 1999-2003 Visiting lecturer in over 30 universities worldwide (Europe, Oceania, North America, Central America, South America), 1998-present EU research projects Project manager at Aalto ARTS for Support Systems for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Transformation (SHIFT), 2012-2016 Project manager for International Centre for Innovation & Sustainability, Denmark for a Leonardo Da Vinci programme, Design Education and Sustainability (DEEDS) project, 2006-2008. External appointments at national and international level 2015—present, Member of External Permanent Commission for Scientific Advice for Labcom.IFP, University of Beira Interior, Colvilha, Portugal. 2012—2015. Member of the International Board for Tongji University College of Design & Innovation, Shanghai. Membership of academic or professional bodies Member of the Editoral Board for She Ji, The Journal of Design, Innovation and Economics (Elsevier/Tongji Univeristy). Chief editor: Professor Ken Friedman. 3

Reviewer for The Design Journal. Reviewer for Cumulus Helsinki 2012, Nordes 2013 and Cumulus Aveiro 2014 conferences. Other academic achievements & responsibilities Host and facilitator for the launch of the European design policy report, Design for Growth & Prosperity, November 2012. City Hall, Helsinki, Finland co-ordinated by Aalto University. Host for the Cumulus conference, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, May 2012. Session chair at the Cumulus conference University of Aveiro, Aveiro Portugal, July 2014.

4. Teaching curriculum [courses given last 5 years]

2014—April 2016: at the University of Aveiro, Portugal: I contributed to BA level teaching on a Sustainable design, Masters level teaching on a Design for Social Innovation module, and tutoring/mentoring at Doctoral level. 2011—January 2016: I ran the Joint Masters Introduction Module for all 120-140 students entering Aalto ARTS, Finland, at Masters level each September from 2012-2015. I also contributed lectures, workshops and project work to the following Masters level modules: Design & Culture; Design & Values; New Practice; User Inspired Design; and various modules for the cross-faculty Masters in Creative Sustainability. I managed a Post-graduate Diploma course at Lahti Institute of Design (LAMK) in Design-led Business for design professionals. I supervised 10 Masters students’ theses and tutored/mentored two doctoral students. 2011—2014: at SKEMA Business School, Sofia Antipolis, Nice, France: I was a module leader on sustainable design for Masters students in Sustainable Development. 2010—2011: at the Plymouth College of Arts, Plymouth, UK – Programme Leader for the Masters in Entrepreneurship for Creative Practice Also, I co-created two Masters level courses entitled MA Creative Practices for Sustainability and MA Emerging Communication Practices. Throughout my tertiary level teaching career I have helped develop many new Bachelors and Masters design courses and embed sustainability thinking and practice into these courses in the UK (for example, Falmouth University – BA Sustainable Product Design; Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Entrepreneurship, University of the Creative Arts – Masters Sustainable Design, Cranfield University – Masters Ecodesign, Goldsmiths College London,BA Design combined with ecological design, Plymouth College of Art – Masters in Entrepreneurship for Creative Practice) and in Finland, France and Portugal (see above) – my teaching was informed by my research, writing and my work as a facilitator and consultant. It evolved to embrace and contribute to international debates on eco-design, slow design, co-design, design activism, and design for social innovation. I believe in encouraging students to embrace inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives in their design approach, to be open and participatory in their ways of working.

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5. Selected keynotes & talks, 2012-2016

UD16 Survival/SobreVivencia, 5th Portuguese Design Research Conference, Aveiro/Porto, Portugal, July 2016 CrossMedia Arts, 1st International Conference on Social Arts and Transdiscipinarity, Universities of Évora, Lisboa and Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, June 2016. Consuming the Social, Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, May 2016. By Design or By Disaster, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, May 2016. iDEMI, 4th International Conference on Integration of Design, Engineering and Management for Innovation, Florianopolis, Brazil, October 2015. Designing the Circular City, Parkhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 2013 Designa12 Un/Sustainability, Covilhã, Portugal, November 2012 2nd African Design Research Conference, Cape Town Peninsula University, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2012 Open Design, Shared Creativity, FAD/Barcelona Design Week, Barcelona, Spain, July 2012 UDesign 12, 1st Portuguese Design Research Conference, Aveiro/Porto, Portugal, July 2012

6. Selected publications

Books – Authored Fuad-Luke, A. (2009). Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a sustainable World, London, UK: Earthscan. Fuad-Luke, A. (2009, 2005, 2002). The EcoDesign Handbook, 3rd, 2nd and 1st editions, London, UK: Thames & Hudson. Fuad-Luke, A. (2008). The Eco-travel Handbook, London: Thames & Hudson, London, UK, 2008. Fuad-Luke, A. (1998). Digital Photography, London, UK: Fourth Estate/Guardian Books. Fuad-Luke, A. (1997). The Cyberpix Guide, London, UK: Guardian Books. Books – Co-authored Fuad-Luke, A., Salokannel, R. & Keinanen, K. (2015). Return on Giving. Best mindset and practices for co-designing. Lahti: LADEC, Lahti Regional Development. Buurma, D., Mason, P. & Fuad-Luke, A. (2003). Moor Art: Public art enriching public spaces, Falmouth, UK: Mor Design. Books – Edited Fuad-Luke, A., Moebus, K. and Hirscher, A-L. eds. (2015) Agents of Alternatives: Re-designing Our Realities. Berlin: AoA. 5

Chapters in books Fuad-Luke, A. (2016). Fictions, frictions and functions: Design as capability, adaptability and transition, pp. 90-95, in The Pearl Diver: Designers as Storytellers. Elisa Bertolotti, Heather Daam, Francesca Piredda & Virginia Tassenari, eds. 2016. Milan: DESIS Philosophy Talks. Fuad-Luke, A. (2015). Designing capability, pp.106-108, in Fernandes, P., A. Abrunhosa, P. Macedo Leão, P. M. Monteiro Machado, R. Simão and J. Nunes, Agricultura Lusitana: Aldeias do Xisto, Portugal: ADXTUR, Agênciapara o Desenvolvimento Turistico das Aldeias do Xisto. Fuad-Luke, A. (2015). Design activism’s teleological freedoms as a means to transform our habitus, pp. 280-295, in Fuad-Luke, A., Moebus, K. and Hirscher, A-L. eds. (2015) Agents of Alternatives: Re-designing Our Realities. Berlin: AoA. Fuad-Luke, A. (2014). Design(-ing) for Radical Relationality: ‘Relational design’ for confronting dangerous, concurrent, contingent realities, pp. 42-73, in MA Jin and LOU Yongqi, eds., Emerging Practices in Design. Professions, Values and Approaches. Shanghai: Tongji University Press. ISBN 978-7-112-17280-1 Hirscher, A.L. & Fuad-Luke, A. (2013) ‘Open participatory designing for an alternative fashion economy’, pp. 172-197, in Niinimäki, K. ed., Sustainable Fashion: New approaches, Helsinki, Finland:Aalto ARTS Books. ISBN 978-952-60-5572-5 Fuad-Luke, A. (2013). ‘Design activism: Consensus, Dissensus and Transitional Practices’, pp. 466-487, in The Handbook of Design for Sustainability, Walker, S. & Girard,J., eds.. London UK:Bloomsbury. July, 2013. ISBN 978-0-85785-852-8 Fuad-Luke, A. (2012). ‘Co-designing Services in the Co-futured City’, pp101-121, in Kuosa, T. and L. Westerlund. eds., Service Design: On the Evolution of Design Expertise, Lahti, Finland: LUAS (Lahti University of Applied Sciences), Research Reports 16, 2012. Fuad-Luke, A. (2010). 'Adjusting our metabolism: reflective consumption: Slowness and nourishing rituals of delay in anticipation of a Post-Consumer Age', pp. 133-156, in Longer Lasting Solutions, Tim Cooper (contributing ed), London, UK: Gower Publishing, 2010. Fuad-Luke, A. (2009). ‘Green world’, in 60 Innovators Shaping Our Creative Futures, pp114-143, in Dietrich, L. (ed.), Nov 2009, London, UK: Thames and Hudson. Fuad-Luke, A. (2007). Chapter 2: ‘Redefining the Purpose of (Sustainable) Design: Enter the Design Enablers, Catalysts in Co-design’, in Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, Chapman, J. and N. Gant (contributing eds.), 2007, London, UK: Earthscan, 18-52. Journal Papers in refereed academic journals Spangenberg, J.H. , Blincoe, K. and Fuad-Luke, A. (2010). ‘Design for Sustainability (DfS): the interface of sustainable production and consumption’, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 18, Issue 15, November 2010, 1485-1493. Blincoe, K., Fuad-Luke, A., Spangenberg, J.H., Thomson, M., Holmgren, D., Jaschke, K., Ainsworth, T. and Tylka, K. (2009). DEEDS: a teaching and learning resource to help mainstream sustainability into everyday design teaching and professional practice, pp1-23, Int. J. Innovation and Sustainable Development, Vol. 4, No. 1.

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Official Reports for the SHIFT project Fichter, K., Fuad-Luke, A., Hjelm, O., Klofsten, M., Backmän, M., Bergset, L., Bienkowska, D., Clausen, J., Geier, J., Hirscher, A.L., Kanda, W., Kuisma, M. (2016). SHIFTing the Support of Entrepreneurship in Eco-Innovation. Summary of results and recommendations from the Eco-Innovera project SHIFT. Berlin, Helsinki, Linköping: SHIFT. Fichter, K., Fuad-Luke, A., Hjelm, O., Klofsten, M., Backmän, M., Bergset, L., Bienkowska, D., Clausen, J., Geier, J., Hirscher, A.L., Kanda, W., Kuisma, M. (2016). Redesigning the Support System for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Work Package 8: Paradigm shift. Berlin, Helsinki, Linköping: SHIFT. Fuad-Luke, A., Hirscher, A-L., & Backmän. (2015). SHIFT Work Package 5: The Roles of Design Service Providers (DSPs). Background, literature review, interviews, surveys, analysis and recommendations. Berlin, Helsinki, Linköping: SHIFT. Kuisma, M. & Fuad-Luke, A. (2015) SHIFT Work Package 7: The Roles of Interagents and Unusual Collaboration in Supporting Sustainable Start-ups and eco-SMEs. Berlin, Helsinki, Linköping: SHIFT. Fichter, K., Klofsten, M. & Fuad-Luke, A. with L. Bergset, J.Geier, J. Clausen, O.Helm, D. Beinkowska, W. Kanda, M. Kuisma & P. Cabrera Viancha. (2013). Support Systems for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Transformation (SHIFT). Work Package 1: Theoretical Foundation. Berlin, Helsinki, Linköping: SHIFT. All reports downloadable from http://www.shift-project.eu Other publications – peer reviewed conference papers Garduno, C., Nousala, S. and Fuad-Luke, A. (2014). Aalto LAB Mexico: Exploring an Evolving Polydisciplinary Design Pedagogy for Community Well-being and Empowerment with(in) a Mayan Community, a paper presented at Design for Sustainable Well-being and Empowerment conference, 12-14 June 2014, Bangalore, India, published in Design for Sustainable Well-being and Empowerment: Select Papers, Bangalore: Indian Institute of Science and Delft: Technology University DelftExhibitions. Fuad-Luke, A. (2011). ‘Re-crafting capitalism, regenerating societies: How do designer-makers amplify, build and regenerate social capital?’ Making Futures: The Crafts in the Context of Emerging Global Sustainability Agendas, a conference organised by Plymouth College of Art, Dartington, Devon, UK, 15-16.09.2011. Blincoe, K. Fuad-Luke, A., Spangenberg, J. Thomson, M., Holmgren, D., Jaschke, K. Ainsworth, T. Jung, B. and Tylka, K. (2008) ‘DEEDS: a new Teaching and Learning resource to help mainstream sustainability into everyday design teaching and professional practice’, paper presented at Changing the Change, Turin, 8-10th July 2008. Strauss, C. and Fuad-Luke, A. (2008) ‘The Slow Design Principles: A new interrogative and reflexive tool for design research and practice’, paper presented at Changing the Change, Turin, 8-10th July 2008. Fuad-Luke, A. (2006). 'Reflection, consciousness, progress: Creatively slow designing the present', Reflections on Creativity: Exploring the role of theory in creative practices, Conference 2006, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, the University of Dundee, 21-22 April 2006 published by the University of Dundee, 2007, ISBN 1 899 837 566. Fuad-Luke, A. (2005). ‘A new model of well-being to help design ‘products’ that sustain people, environments and profits’, Towards Sustainable Product Design, TSPD 10, Centre for Sustainable Design, Farnham, UK, 24-25 October 2005.

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7. Professional experience

1998—present, Design writing, consulting, education & research 1998—April 2016, Independent sustainable design facilitator, educator, consultant, writer & activist, www.fuad-luke.com 1992—1998, Photography and new media Manager, Mirror Syndication International at Hulton Deutsch photolibrary (now Getty Images), 1994-1995. Independent writer for the British Journal of Photography, PhotoAsia and other photography publications, 1993-1998. 1980—1992, Ecological landscape design & build and revegetation consultancy Ecological and revegetation consultant, UK, Australia and Malaysia, 1989-1993. Founder & Managing Director, Cambridge Bio-soil Engineering, a specialist soil stabilisation and erosion control consultancy, 1987-1990. Founder & Managing Director, CDTS Ltd, UK, an ecological landscape design and build company specialising in revegetating industrial waste sites, mining land and infrastructure developments, 1980-1990. This company is still operative in 2016.

8. Education

National Environment Research Council (NERC) research studentship, University of Cambridge, Wolfson College, UK, 1977-1980. BSc (Hons) 2(i) Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, UK, 1977.

9. Miscellania

I was born in Manchester, UK. During my career I have lived and worked in Australia, Finland, Malaysia, Portugal and, now, Italy. I’ve founded companies in the UK, worked as a freelancer, collaborated with Dutch and Swiss companies, collaborated with numerous municipalities and regional development authorities, and provided sub-contract ecological design services to large construction and mining companies. I am a fan of Brazilian and Capo Verde songbirds - Ellis Regina, Bidu Sayão and Cesaria Evora. Award: European Environmental Design Award, best_ed!, for The Eco-design Handbook, DIMAD, Central de disseño, Madrid, March 2010. Co-curated exhibition: Sustainable Futures at the Design Museum, London, 2010. Solo exhibition: Laser Thoughts, 1992, the first ever exhibition of laser colour printer photography in Malaysia at Canon’s own gallery in Kuala Lumpur.

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