Practical sustainability - Sustainable practicality

                                                                                                 Picture: Netta Tauber 

LSDP and Stichting Desycle have invited other organizations and companies to partnership in the development of an innovative project for 2011/2012. We cannot tell a lot about it at the moment, except that it involves a lot of great ideas, designing, producing, exhibiting, sharing and a very nice publication!

We will keep you posted.

More to come!

LSDP in Mexico City

Guia Mexicana de Diseno (http://www.mexicandesign.com/) and Universidad la Salle (http://www.ulsa.edu.mx/) in Mexico City invited LSDP to give a workshop for young designers about social design. Because we like to be hands on and put our knowledge into practice, we set up 8 designers together with an organization which takes care of girls living on the streets of Mexico city “Yolia” (http://www.yolia.org.mx/) to work together intensely during three days, to co-create new rewarding activities for the girls. These activities will help them learn new skills and acquire new responsibilities which will stimulate them to invest more time in their personal development. After the 3 day workshop we left a group of designers and an organization who are willing to work together to make this project happen. LSDP will assess them through the process.

3 days of intense hard work

Project Presentations

Evaluation with the directors

Workshop closing with songs inspired in the girls live's

The goal for the girls involved in this project

IJburg Werkt with the 5p’s. (people, planet, profit, pleasure and practicality)

In May 2010 we organized a creative session where Ymere (housing corporation in Amsterdam, the IJburg Marktmeester, Radar Advies (agency on social issues) and a group of 5 entrepreneurs exchanged their concerns, ideas and proposals about the start-up of a sustainable business in IJburg.
Leading the session through the 5p’s opened up all possible directions this project could take. It also allowed everyone to bring in their expertise to find what role they can take in every phase of this project. This unorthodox session lasted 4 hours of intense brain workout, but was worth the smiles and laughter’s of every participant.
A comprehensive 5p's report was the result of the research and activities organized which will set up the basis for the start up of this project in IJburg.



                       Early start with coffee and presentations.



                   Roland Heijnen en Peter van 't Klooster van
                   Pantar Amsterdam en Vincent Perotti van
                   Green Dot Company.

                                       Making 'intuitive' choices

                                       Mapping the project

Ijburg Werkt! How do you put together 5 socially responsible initiatives in one location?

IJburg Werkt!
How do you put together 5 socially responsible initiatives in one location?

LSDP was hired by the ‘Marktmeester IJburg’ Ymere (housing corporation in Amsterdam] and ‘Radar Advies’, to lead the first phase of this project. We've done this by diving deep into the wishes, needs and priorities of the different parties who will be part of this project. We have also visited IJburg and interviewed people around the neighborhood. We wrote a report where the success factors of this project are worked out in detail; we also gave advice about sustainable ways to approach this project to make it a success. This research is a solid basis of information that will be used throughout the whole project.

Some impressions of our tours around the neighborhood of IJburg in Amsterdam:

People, PLanet, Profit and Pleasure projects in 2009/2010

We have developed new sustainable business concepts for various clients in the housing development, tourism and garbage sector. As usual, we work close with our clients from the conceptual idea to a detailed action plan and/or the execution, adding values to their values. Follow our weblog in 2010 for updates on the execution and results of these projects.

Design 2 change!

LSDP has developed an instrument to stimulate ‘change’ within organisations. Through a series of design activities we reflect on our daily work roles in a playful way, which leads the participants to learn how to use their creative skills at work, making them more effective in their role.
In November we worked closely with ‘2switch’, an Arnhem based Dutch company specialized in the development and re-integration of special people into society.
The success of this project was accelerated by the inspiring participant’s willingness to adjust their talents into our present and challenging world needs.
We are very proud to introduce this ‘change’-concept which contains the values of our vision: Changing an organisation starts by changing its people, each and every member of the team. We focus on those people, since they make the profit, the planet and of course the pleasure!

Sustainable production workshop de Regenboog Groep

We developed this year two more great products within the desycled criteria. We first organized a brainstorm session where we thought and chose several products ideas together with the makers and the workshop leaders. Our goal was to have great product ideas for both target group (consumers and homeless people). We have now a list of 15 potential ideas. To start we selected the first two of the ranking list and we designed them. We also trained the workshop leaders into the design aspects of these products. Take a look at the project weblog: http://desyclingderegenboog.blogspot.com/ to get deeper in the process.


The desycling workshop of the Regenboog group in Amsterdam has developed an effective rhythm. This project has proven that patience in execution and persistence does lead to results in these type of circumstances. The original idea behind this workshop has motivated visitors to the shelter to commit long-term to the project and to go forward with their personal development. The shelter itself has picked up the basis put down by LSDP and now is in the process of taking this project to subsequent levels of execution and produce new products with its own resources.