Alastair Fuad-Luke / slowLab

A well placed and great lecture for all involved in design!

Sustainable design facilitator, lecturer & writer Alastair Fuad-Luke will talk about his evolving conversation around ‘slow design’ and his work with Carolyn Strauss of NYC’s slowLab, an organisation taking a curatorial role to reveal diverse creativity around the concept of ‘positive slowness by design'.

Alastair Fuad-Luke is a sustainable design consultant, facilitator, lecturer and writer. He is a contributor to the international debate about design and sustainability, and author of The Eco-Design Handbook. He works with diverse clients in Denmark, France and the UK. Currently he is Project Manager for DEEDS (Design Education & Sustainability, www.deedsproject.org) supported by the EU Leonardo da Vinci programme. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Plymouth, University College for the Creative Arts, University College Falmouth, and Royal College of Arts in the UK, and has also lectured in the Europe, USA, New Zealand and Australia.

SlowLab is an emerging organization based in New York City and with activities worldwide. The mission of the organization is to promote 'slowness' or 'slow design' as a positive catalyst of individual, socio-cultural and environmental well-being. Engaging the innate creative capacities of individuals and leveraging the collaborative potential of communities to spur networks of cooperation that incite new thinking and approaches.

As a design ‘activist’, Alastair is the founder of SLow, a web site exploring ‘slow design’ (www.slowdesign.org); Vice President of New York based SlowLab (www.slowlab.org); and a former member of the Advisory Board for the 10th & 11th Towards Sustainable Product Development conference, the Centre for Sustainable Design (www.cfsd.org.uk), UK. He is passionate about society-wide engagement with design as a means to live a more fulfilling, sustainable life, while respecting our bio-diverse planet.


The lecture will take place as usual at the Main Lecture Theatre on our Woodlane Campus at 6pm. For more information go to http://rane.falmouth.ac.uk/lecture_series_frm.html