The Power of the People in the Streets

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Moha mad was a fruit seller in tunesia. He wanted to go to college, but had to help with the farm because his father fell ill back when they still had the farm. So he got by forces beyond him, diverted into a life that was not education, but labor. And bless his heart, that's what he had to do for the family. But corruption being a problem in tunesia, he fell victim. The police harassed him to a point that they claimed he couldn't sell the vegetables on the street without a proper permit - which was basically a bribe shake down. Fairly desperate and despondent, he went to the local governor of the region and asked for

How can we use the leading edge of design thinking to create climate activism that really works? Dave Johnson is a lawyer, teacher, writer and design thinker who is bringing his breadth of understanding to bear on the climate and ecological emergency.

Dave Johnson began his career as a trial lawyer in the courtrooms of Miami. After a decade, he came to Stanford to study design, tech and environmental law. He has worked for several Silicon Valley companies, with an increasing focus on teaching, first at Stanford Law School and then the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford (a/k/a the d.school). His most recent articles are Design for Legal Systems, to be published by the Singapore Academy of Law, Mar/Apr 2021, and Designing Online Mediation: Does “Just Add Tech” Undermine Mediation’s Ownmost Aim?, published in 2019 by FGV Direito, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dave is currently working on a book entitled: Climate Activism by Design, bringing design principles to bear on citizen activists responding to corporate and governmental inaction on this immediate, existential crisis facing all of humanity.

In this episode, we discuss the foundations of his book - how a trial lawyer shifted to design principles and thence to the design concepts behind climate activism: what it is and how to frame it such that we can find the best possible modes of action as the emergency becomes ever greater.

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