Speakers: Patrick Keenan and Alan Smith from The Movement

This talk is about design, people, and meaning. Let’s call it “Creative Sustainability”, or maybe “Sustainable Creativity” ?

I care about the big picture and care about making great work. The folks at the Movement have started to put structure to ideas and concepts around what they call sustainable creativity.

The presentation started off with the question: "What have you done that is meaningful?"

The underlying theme of the talk is about a philosophy and concept that, as stated, is sustainable creativity. Its about solutions and an approach to problem solving. Its about how to change relationships. It means doing things that make a difference. To me it means doing work and working in a way that matches my values of creating meaningful work, engaging in mutually beneficial relationships and have a positive influence on the environment around me.

This is the creation of meaningful wealth.

The second question to the crowd came as this: How much do you make? …How much what?  Money isn’t our only currency. Is there an accounting for non financial things.

Time as currency: Banking time. See Timeraiser to pledge time against a good cause.

Task as currency: trading tasks.

Non profit margin: distribute profits from centres that can afford to others that can’t but require attention. See good magazine - 100% of subscription fee is directed to the non-profit of your choice.

Next question: What is the victory condition for how you spend your time at work?

See Wiser Earth  to connect with other groups.

Spread the word - action and reward. A cause based design camp. (Can’t find any further information though, anybody?)

A 12 step program to make change:

• take note of impact
• consider what to preserve and what to change
• draw the line, what won’t you do?  have a to don’t list
• set priorities, what matters most? Urgent and important
• share the worst deed you did for an evil client
• tell somebody you’re about to make a change in your professional work
• implement a system to help you out
• make an ideal client list. don’t let this list just sit there, contact them.
• join something
• meet-ups and serendipity
• do. then talk. then do more.
• try these, then try something else.