SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 2012

Resource Efficiency, Innovation and Lifestyles

Part of the ‘Towards Sustainable Product Design’ series of conferences

17th International Conference
29th-30th October 2012
Alanus University
Bonn
Germany

Programme

Day 1 – 29th October 2012

09:00 Registration
09:30 Introduction and Opening Remarks
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, University for the Creative Arts, UK
09:45 Keynote: Resource Efficient Europe
Dr Harry Lehmann, General Director, Division – Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany
10:25 Keynote: Materials Security, Productivity & New Business Models
Nick Morley, Director, Oakdene Hollins, UK
10:55 Keynote: Eco-innovation Action Plan & Resource Efficiency
TBC, DG Environment, Belgium*
11:25 Coffee/Tea and Networking
12:00 Resources, Innovation & Lifestyles: Global Business Perspective
Jack de Bokx, Senior Director, Worldwide Environment, Health & Saftety, Johnson & Johnson, UK
12:30 Resource Efficient Innovation
Sascha Hermann, Director, VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz GmbH, Germany
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Resources, Innovation & Lifestyles: 2050
Michael Kuhndt, Director, CSCP, Germany
14:45 Resources, Innovation & Lifestyles: Personal Visions, Perspectives and Stories
Innovation Tradition: Bernd Draser, Director and Lecturer – Philosophy & Cultural Studies, ecosign and Akademie für Gestaltung, Germany
Sustainability Labs: Lorenz Erdmann, Senior Researcher, Fraunhofer ISI – Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany
Green Ocean: Søren Femmer Jensen, Director, Co-Creative, Denmark
Book Print: Michal Miedzinski, Senior Consultant, Technopolis, Belgium
Foresight Sustainability: Dr Fabiana Scapolo, Team leader Foresight and Horizon scanning, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium
16:00 Coffee/Tea and Networking
16:30
Panel:
Open ‘Green’ Innovation
Chair:
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, University for the Creative Arts, UK
Panel:
Trevor Davis, Futurist, IBM, UK
Maarten Ten Houten, Sustainability Manager, Global Commerce, Heineken, Netherlands
Wouter Kersten, Manager Research and Innovation, Enviu, Netherlands
Christian Löwe, Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany
Dr. Clara Neppel, Scenario Analyst, European Patent Office, Germany
17:30 Summary
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, University for the Creative Arts, UK
17:45 Drinks and Entertainment: Quatsch ‘Live’ – the Natural Resource of the 21st Century
The Quatschtronauts
20:00 Dinner

* Invited

Day 2 – 30th October 2012

08:30 Registration
09:00 Introduction and Opening Remarks
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, University for the Creative Arts, UK
09:10 Keynote *
09:45 Refereed Papers – ‘Top 30′ Papers
13:15 Lunch
14:15 New Business Models
Professor Ursula Tischner, Program Coordinator – Design for Sustainability, Savannah College of Art and Design, US
14:45 The Elvis & Kresse Story
Kresse Wesling, Co-founder & Director, Elvis & Kresse, UK
15:15 Coffee/Tea and networking
15:45
Panel:
Resources, Innovation & Design: Tools and Techniques
Chair:
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, University for the Creative Arts, UK
Panel:
Dr Paul McNeilis, Director, Best Foot Forward, UK
Dr Jamie O’Hare, Granta Design, UK
Ramon Arratia, Sustainability Director, InterfaceFlor Europe, UK
Nokia, Finland*
16:45 Conference Summary
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, University for the Creative Arts, UK
17:00 Close

* Invited

Contact

For more information on Sustainable Innovation 12 please contact:

Martin Charter
Director
The Centre for Sustainable Design
University for the Creative Arts
Farnham Campus
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7DS
UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 1252 892772
Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747
Email: mcharter@ucreative.ac.uk

Organised by:

Strategic partner:

UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), Germany

Venue partner:

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Partners:

UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), Germany UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), Germany eco-innovation observatory logo world resources forum logo