Planet Centric & The Evolution Of Design with Samuel Huber

Today, we discuss Planet Centric Design with Samuel Huber, Design Strategist at GoodPatch who specialised in sustainable design approaches. Samuel also pursues a Ph.D. in Systemic Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Here's what we discuss:

- Welcome
- Who's Samuel Huber?
- Who said Planet Centric Design?
- A definition for Planet Centric Design (PCD)
- The old becomes new again
- PCD simplifies access to complex topics
- On labels & the need to reframe our way of working
- Planet Centric, Circular Design, Systemic Design, etc.
- Maps, Models, the tree & the forest: the value & limits of reduction
- Our tools are biased towards humans
- Resolving contexts gap: how can we practice PCD?
- The limits & ethics of interpretation
- Mitigating our bias toward the problem-solution dichotomy
- Planet Centric Design in practice

Samuel Huber
https://samuelhuber.medium.com
https://twitter.com/samphuber

GoodPatch
https://global.goodpatch.com
https://medium.com/goodpatch-global

University of St. Gallen
https://ifb.unisg.ch/en/