The Post-Industrial Economy: Design for Sustainability & Profit

The Design Leadership Series complements the popular DMI Seminar series with shorter, interactive presentations that you can access right from your desktop.

The series will feature leading thinkers in design and design management addressing topics of key importance, brought to you through Microsoft Live Meeting.

The lectures will generally last one hour, followed by a question and answer period with the presenter.

We are well into a post-industrial age and it is becoming ever clearer that sustainability is not only a moral imperative, but good business.

In fact, companies such as General Electric and British Petroleum have identified sustainability as a core mission.

The field of Industrial design is also in a moment of transition into a post-industrial design era where the expression "less is more" is taking on more than a Bauhaus mantra.

In the future, truly inspiring design will be that which provides users and consumers with greater experiences, while taking away unnecessary material and complex information.

Gianfranco Zaccai is co-founder, president, and CEO of Design Continuum, the first fully integrated consumer research, design and development firm in the world, with studios located in Boston, Milan, and Seoul.