The DO Lectures - Answering your questions.
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The DO lectures are a set of talks with sustainability at its heart happening between the 3rd – 7th of September. Started as a dinner table conversation between David and Clare Hieatt (the co-founders of howies®) The DO Lectures are a standalone event that will bring together a bunch of the world’s most creative people to speak their mind and inspire new ways of thinking about everyday ideas. These talks will be filmed and available for free viewing, with the aim that one million people will get to see them.
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DE51GN has the opportunity to interview co-creator David Hieatt and would like to hear your questions, please post any questions below in the comments section for us to ask in our interview. Below is a list of the world class speakers taking part in this event .Â
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Geoff McFetridge
Graphic Designer/Illustrator
There are Graphic designers. And
then there’s Geoff McFetridge.
Probably the world’s best doodler.
Andrew Reason
Inventor & Founder of
Reason washing machines
Are you happy with your wash?
Andrew isn’t. That’s why he is
changing how washing
machines work.
Duke Stump
Principal & Chief Architect of the
‘North Star Manifesto’, a brand
consulting studio
These are the times of change.
New powerful ideas are being
born. A shift is happening.
And Duke will be talking
about that shift.
Uffe Elbæks
Founder & former principal
of The KaosPilots
Founder of the world famous
KaosPilots school. It doesn’t want
to be the best school in the world.
It’s aim is to be the best school for
the world.
Adam Lowry
Method’s ‘chief greens keeper’
Why can’t a role model come
in a bottle? This is what drives
Method to make the lowest
impact cleaning products you can
buy.
Michael Pawlyn
Sustainable Architect
Can we work with nature? Use it as
a blueprint? Treat it as a partner?
There are huge gains to be made
by learning from how the natural
world works.
Gerald Miles
Organic Farmer & GM Activist
What would you do to protest
about GM crops being planted in
Britain? Just sit there? Or get on
your tractor and drive to London in
protest.
Tom Taylor
Post Digital Designer
He likes to think of the internet
as the virtual shed at the bottom
of his non-existent garden. From
there he tries to delight and
disrupt in equal measure.
Alastair Humphreys
Adventurer and Author
Imagine going on a bike ride that
lasts for 4 years. Now he wants
to try something really hard.
Rolf Potts
Author of ‘Vagabonding’
His zeitgeist defining book is not
just how to travel the world on a
shoestring, but, more importantly,
the mindset you need to take with
you. It is now in its 10th reprint.
Gabriel Branby
CEO of Gränsfors Bruks AB
Gränsfors make one the finest
forged axes in the world. It has
become more than just an axe.
It is an icon for quality and a
belief that there is another way
of making things.
Paul Deegan
Mountaineer and Everest’s Dustman
Climbing Everest is one thing.
Bringing everyone’s rubbish back
down with you is quite another.
Ben Hammersley
Deputy editor of WIRED UK
Clothes that know when you’re in
love, doors that know when you’re
angry, phones that know when
it’s raining. How knowing what we
know will help us live our lives.
Patrick Holden
Director of the Soil Association
Where does our food come from?
Patrick believes an identity of a
nation is related to its food. And
that we need to reconnect to
the story behind the food we eat.
Alice Taylor
Ch4 Education Commissioner & blogger
Play is important. Kids learn more
while playing. And if kids are playing
more digital games these days, then
those games need to become their
teachers too.
David Rosenberg
CEO of Hycrete Inc.
Is it possible to change the
construction industry? Is there
a better way to make concrete?
David has some answers
(and some patents) to say
that it is possible to make it a
greener industry.
Jane Davidson
Minister for the Environment,
Sustainability and Housing
Can a small country like
Wales lead the way in terms of
sustainability? Can an entire
country go organic? Why not?
Gregor MacLennan
Campaigner for
Amazonian peoples rights
Over three decades of illegal
oil drilling and logging in the
Ecuadorian Amazon, Gregor is
working and campaigning to
defend and stop these incursions on
indigenous communities territory.
Tony Davidson
Creative Director of Wieden+Kennedy
To make you feel something is the
hardest thing to do in advertising.
Tony does this better than almost
anyone else.
Tim Birkhead
Author of ‘The Wisdom of Birds‘
Tim believes we can learn a lot
from birds. Fortunately for us he
will be migrating West in early
September.
Brooke said
It frustrates me when I see countries like the UAE who have no social concept of sustainability coupled with an increasing ecological footprint - it seems to put efforts made by other countries to increase green-practices to waste. I think there should be some kind of penalty on countries that have the resources (i.e money) to make changes for a greener future but don’t (hello America), whether it be financial or otherwise. What do you think?
anna said
The idea of all these inspiring speakers in one place is quite mind blowing, the knowledge they can share and inspire others to ‘go do’ is such a positive outlook, what other plans have you for the Do Lectures?
Jay Greasley said
David is leaving Howies next month (October), I wonder what projects he has lined up? Will he be aiming to focus on the Do Lectures. Given that The Do is the TEDTalks of Wales I think it could be a real movement for change.
Jay