

Brian Sutherland
Details
First Name | Brian |
Last Name | Sutherland |
Nickname | bksutherland |
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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. |