Climate change and the people puzzle

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Climate change and the people puzzle

Energy Futures Lab host Richard Poole, founding partner of Fluxx, 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.