Check out some
Speaking & Workshops
DES 505: Senior Design Course
Dates: June – August 2020
Type: Community Partner
Topic: Worked with students during the summer semester on environmentally-based visual design and education campaigns.
Connect&Compute Speaker Series
Date: July 9, 2020
Type: Speaker
Topic: Social impact design
Description:
Logan Evasco is a social impact designer, community organizer, and environmental activist. she’s the founder of Climate Creative, a non-profit built around the tenants of creative professional development, community empowerment, and environmental justice, as well as a freelance design director with 10+ years of experience designing for technology companies, non-profits, small businesses, and government agencies. logan is active throughout the Bay Area as a community partner with the SFSU design department, as a steering committee member of the climate emergency mobilization task force, as a member of the committee to re-elect Cheryl Davila, and as a dog owner and recreational crafter.
Learn more about how Logan uses design and tech for social activism at her workshop!
Climate Action Summit
Dates: February 1, 2020
Type: Workshop Presenter
Topic: Designed by Community – Building Resilient Communities to Combat Climate Change
Description:
We are uniting local communities, artists, entrepreneurs, developers, scientists and engineers, to come together and prototype solutions for our climate resilient future.
We are coming together to explore:
How might we use technology to build stronger communities, support people most impacted by climate change and shift into a regenerative economy?
These main themes will guide our discussions and solution development:
Regenerative Design & Circular Economy – to restore, renew, and revitalize the energy and resources of Earth, and eliminate waste through continual use of resources in a closed-loop systems.
Community Resilience & Inclusion in the Climate Crisis – to support and revitalize our communities that are most impacted by the climate crisis.
DES 505: Senior Design Course
Dates: January – June 2020
Type: Community Partner
Topic: Worked with students during the summer semester on environmentally-based visual design and education campaigns.
ClimateDesigners.org Launch Party Panel
Date: November 4, 2019
Type: Panel member
Topic: What is a climate designer
Description:
There’s a new kind of designer emerging, those who focus their creative talents towards solving our climate crisis. They are collaborating with others to build out, launch, and promote new climate approaches.
We’re calling them climate designers.
Our mission is two-fold; to encourage and empower designers to use their creative talents towards addressing our climate crisis and to inspire, motivate, and graduate climate designers by providing climate-focused resources for design educators.
Are you one of us?
We are excited to put on our launch party for climatedesigners.org. Meet fellow climate designers and learn more about the project.
Sustainable Systems Design Course
Date: October 28, 2019
Type: Guest Lecture
Topic: Actionable Sustainability Design
AIGA SF Compostmodern Fall 2019: The Problems with Recycling
Date: October 23, 2019
Topic: Recycling Design Policy
Description:
In this event, we explore the complex problems behind recycling both as consumers and designers. While once thought of as a go-to sustainability solution, the complexities in recycling processes and drastic changes in global demands have demanded designers reconsider how products are made, used and disposed of. Join us for a night of presentations, ideas and discussions on the problems and potential solutions designers face designing for recyclability.
PARK(ing) Day 2019 Charrette
Dates: September 5, 2019
Type: Community Partner
Topic: Spoke on environmental design and advised first-years students on sustainable industrial design practices during a work session.
DES 505: Senior Design Course
Dates: June – August 2019
Type: Community Partner
Topic: Worked with students on multiple community-based environmental design projects.
SF Design Week: Design vs. Climate Change – Strategizing for Action
Dates: June 22, 2019
Type: Panel Moderator, Organizer
Topic: Design-a-thon pitch project
Description:
Join Design It Forward for a conversation about using design strategies to combat climate change and support sustainability efforts in our community.
The panel’s focus will be on actionable items that can be enacted in your home or workplace regardless of profession. Some case studies will include World Savvy’s design thinking workshops in SF USD and Precious Plastic’s open-source plastic repurposing machines. Come to have an open conversation about what’s possible when designers come together.