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CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE PEOPLE PUZZLE
Energy Futures Lab [/www.imperial.ac.uk/energy-futures-lab] host
Richard Poole, founding partner of Fluxx [https://fluxx.uk.com/], to
talk about how understanding people is at the heart of the fight
against climate change.
ABSTRACT
If we are going to have any positive impact on CLIMATE CHANGE WE’re
going to have to deal with its main cause, PEOPLE.
PEOPLE ARE COMPLICATED. They’re messy, brilliant, creative,
confusing, excited and exhausting. Sometimes, they’re all those
things within the space of thirty seconds. If our policies and
engineering inventions are going to have the impact we hope for
we’re going to have to get PEOPLE TO USE THEM. We may even have to
get PEOPLE TO LOVE THEM
In his lecture Richard Poole will discuss why we all lie, the science
of design, a model for building successful products and how this can
be harnessed to combat CLIMATE CHANGE
BIOGRAPHY
Having originally trained as an Engineer, Richard’s career has been
focused on Technology and Design - and how these three spheres combine
to make things that people love and (sometimes) make a better world.
Richard’s led the growth of award-winning design-led businesses in
Europe and America and is currently the founding partner of Fluxx - a
Product + Service Design company.
Alongside Fluxx Richard is a start-up advisor and speaker on Design
Thinking, Disruption and Innovation. Richard graduated from Imperial
College with a degree in Civil Engineering c. 100 years ago.
VENUE
The lecture will be in room 408 in the Department of Electrical and
Electroic Engineering, in the centre of box B2 on the campus map
[https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/visit/public/SouthKensingtonCampus.pdf].
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