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EXDL “Manifesto-point-of-views”
EXDL products and services can maybe be difficult to understand, therefore we have made a list of issues which we use as a kind of checklist when we introduce a new product / service / concept.
EXDL “Manifesto-point-of-views”
EXDL is working with radically rethinking what design is. The notion of design today is more equivalent with styling than with anything else. Design today does very rarely solve ‘Real Need’ problems and it rather creates them.
We first and foremost design and develop experiences which can help humans and everything else here on the planet to act and live in ways that respects nature, resources and cultural as well as natural evolution.
We know designing anything in the most appropriate sustainable way today is extremely complex. Resources, products, services etc. are shipped around the planet and might cause unintended problems one place but create solutions another place.
At the end of the day its only INTUTION which can really be used. But intuition is not very tangible, and how do you as maybe our client check us. Well you cant really, you can only trust us. This does not mean that we do not collaborate with certification institutions etc. we do, but to give you an example: When developing projects we will always make sure that workers etc. are paid appropriately. There are many Fair Trade organizations who will make sure that this is happening and we are also collaborating with them, but they might not really know about eco-issues, so we have to go elsewhere if we need an eco certification OR we have to go there ourselves. Certification can be very expensive and its therefore important that we develop alternative ways of being help initially to help, but sometimes also to control. One of the ways of doing this we hope will be through the Ethical Webtool Actics - have a look at www.actics.com. You can also go directly to Experience Design Labs profile on Actics - please go here: http://www.actics.com/experience_design_lab
In EXDL we believe that designers and architects can make a significant difference even being small companies or individuals. By networking in innovative ways such as through The COMMITMENTS program, any company or individual can come up with ideas and get involved in real sustainable development.
EXDL is a very smalll company but with a huge network, and the people and companies involved are all passionate about developing our physical structures in new exiting and innovate sustainable ways. In EXDL we continue to search and develop new ideas and concepts which eventually becomes real at some point with professional partners such as fx. manufacturing companies.
When we choice of materials, processes etc. we might choose differently than what is expected and from what is according to law or various institutions administrating fx. Eco-marks, accepted or acknowledged. The reasons for this can be many. Most of our concepts and ideas can be rather radical and different that therefore they simply cannot be put into existing systems.
In order to make ourselves and our clients, partners etc. comprehend more easily what we do, We have developed a kind of code of conduct or set of criteria which we try to develop our projects according to and we call it the EXDL Code of Conduct.
Niels Peter Flint
CEO EXDL UK and EXDL India
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