DINZ Sustainable Design for Business - Real World Tools, Strategies & Approaches (previously known as The Life Cycle Thinking series) is back for 2009, with a set of two day workshops that deliver easily understandable information and applicable tools, strategies and approaches for sustainable design and development in New Zealand.

Originally delivered in 2008 over three days, this year’s series has been compressed into a two day format with updated content.

Feedback from the 2008 series:
"well crafted, very motivational"
"Liked that the day was broken up into sections. I was never bored"
"The workshops were very organized and worked well. The pre-printed paper layouts were great"

Cost: DINZ Members $350 + GST, Non-Members $395 + GST.
Refreshments are provided
Time: 9:30am-4:30pm
RSVP: designer@dinz.org.nz

Please see the following pages for more information on your regional event
Dunedin 13/14th August
Christchurch 10/11th September
Wellington 6/7th August
Hamilton 3/4th September
Auckland 17/18th September

INTRODUCTION
DINZ Sustainable Design for Business - Real World Tools, Strategies & Approaches (previously known as The Life Cycle Thinking series)

This workshop series is a practical two day programme aimed at applying sustainable design thinking to your products, services and business.

Increasingly businesses are faced with environmental requirements from markets, customers and their supply chain. This course helps you understand and practice the key tools, strategies and approaches to ensure that your products, services and business are prepared to meet these challenges and lead in the market.

The workshop is targeted at those that are responsible for, or involved with product and service development within an organisation. The workshop will introduce a design led approach to life cycle thinking and how to directly apply the key ideas, tools and techniques to your products, services and business in a practical and integrated manner.

The Workshop Series created by Locus Research initially ran in 2008 and is revised for 2009 as a sequence of three workshops to be delivered over two days.

Workshop topics:

• Life Cycle Thinking - An introduction to the key principles behind Life Cycle Thinking as a design model that incorporates a system oriented design approach that includes the product life cycle.

• Life Cycle Management - Application of life cycle thinking to the development and management of products and services

• Life Cycle Tools & Approaches - implementing change through tools and an overview of life cycle thinking approaches such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Carbon Foot-printing, and other environmental performance indicators.

The content of the workshops is structured 'progressively' so the second and third workshops build on the previous workshops to enable a detailed investigation of the subject matter. This creates a accessible approach whilst still engaging with important aspects of life cycle thinking, management, and tools. Each workshop has a strong interactive learning component which is designed to apply and reinforce key learnings from each session.

This DINZ series has fresh support from design-in-business advocates Better by Design and the Sustainable Business Network, and hopes to educate more of the design and business community the second time round.