A few thoughts: 1) The total list is a draft and they are looking for feeback. Its a sketch being evaluated. I have problems w/ the after party invite as opposed to getting invited to the awards ceremony itself, but I can move on from that.
2) Government in any professional space. Whether a gov't is explicitly involved in a space or not it is involved. You are just kidding yourself to a certain degree. When it comes to design all I have to do is compare the US situation to those of Europe and Asia where design has much more governmental support than the US puts into it (definitely per capita). Various country design councils do a great job of getting money for design education (formal and informal). But just look at what Korea has been able to do b/c of their unique government policies on design. It has single-handily given a huge advantage to Korean product companies b/c of the support they get for hiring and maintaining design leadership. Design jobs are going to go overseas in droves over the next decade. Getting gov't awareness to our issues will be helpful. As to the whole "carbon neutral" thing. I think like what a few of our keynotes at intearction09 preached, I think it is time to make a stand as a designer. You are what you CHOOSE to design. This bit is trying to put that face out front. So to put it short (too late) and sweet (you decide) I support IxDA figuring out SOME way to engage in what is going on with this project/initiative. -- dave -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38901 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
