Brian Sutherland
Details
| First Name | Brian |
| Last Name | Sutherland |
| Nickname | bksutherland |
| Website | |
| Where do you work or study? | University of Toronto |
| What do you do? | Teach Design and Making in Higher Education |
| Where do you live? | Toronto |
What Brings You Here?
| How do you like to engage your environment? | Share and discuss degrowth design ideas. |
| What ecological concerns weigh on you the most? | Climate change and the energy transition. |
| What does ecological design mean to you? | Remediating climate change with good alternative design, not bad past designs, e.g. small modular reactors |
| What would you recommend reading on radical ecological futures? | There was a lot of energy utopia writing in the nineteenth century. Forward through the rearview mirror. |
| What kinds of projects would you like to get involved with? | Making alternative projects involving decentralized design strategies. |
| What mediums do you like to work with? | E-Waste and Electronics |
| What kinds of people would you like to collaborate with? | Prickly and interesting, but also tolerant of divergent views. |
| What's one idea you'd like to figure out with others? | Working on something called the Open Bicycle Light – a simple batteryless device design powered by the sun that makes bicycle commuting safer. |
| What else should we know about you? | New PhD 2023 – "Energy Harvesting Information Systems and Design in the Energy Transition" |
| What would you like to see this community become? | Have dialogues on degrowth engineering and design. |