/The Oslo Manifesto
The SDGs are a design brief for the 21st century.
On 25 September 2015, when the 193 Member States of the United Nations approved the 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs) they also created the world’s most demanding design brief.
/The SDGs are “universal”: this means they apply to every nation, every sector, every business, every profession, including design and architecture.
/The SDGs are about “integration”: this means they demand a new emphasis on a systemic approach that does not sacrifice environmental and social considerations to economic gain, but rather seeks for true synergies and solutions that benefit people, nature, and prosperity.
/Finally, the SDGs are about “transformation”: this means they challenge us to rethink the way we live, to rebuild all the systems that are degrading ecological and human health — and to make our world sustainable.
/In sum, the SDGs are the ultimate design and architecture challenge: how do we create, and recreate, a world that achieves all 17 of the visionary goals that have now been agreed to by all the world’s nations?
And how do we achieve this by the year 2030?
The designers, architects, and creative professionals of the world have been handed a special and enormous responsibility, given to them by the 193 heads of state. They must imagine and bring to life the design elements of a new, sustainable world — quickly.
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How can this design contribute to the goal of ending poverty in all its forms, everywhere?
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How can this design contribute to ending hunger and encouraging the transition to sustainable agriculture?
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How can this design help ensure healthy lives and well-being for all at all ages?
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How can this design support quality education and lifelong learning?
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How can this design advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls?
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How can this design help ensure the sustainable management of water and universal access to sanitation?
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How can this design contribute to a sustainable energy transition?
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How can this design promote decent work for all?
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How can this design advance sustainable industrialization and innovation, especially in those places that do not have access to modern industry?
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How can this design help to reduce inequality within and among countries?
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How can this design make our cities more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable?
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How can this design transform production and consumption patterns, to make them more sustainable?
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How can this design be part of the urgent action that is needed to combat climate change and its impacts?
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How can this design be part of caring for our oceans and seas?
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How can this design help to protect and restore ecosystems and preserve biodiversity?
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How can this design contribute to the development peaceful, inclusive, and just societies?
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How can this design advance the global partnership needed to achieve all of these goals?
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Name/Contact Name | Individual, organization, company or group? | Country | Action Statement |
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Cenk Aytekin | Norway | - | |
Kathrine lindholm | Stokke as | Norway | - |
Hans Kristian Hegli | Inventas | Norway | - |
Morten Ragnøy Edned | DOGA Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture | Norway | - |
Christina Nilsson Collste | COLLSTE Arkitektur&Funtion, MSA/SAR | Sweden | - |
Cuauhtémoc León | Centro de Especialistas en Gestión Ambiental | Mexico | - |
Cecilia Martin | Lava Lab | Netherlands | - |
Manuela Aguirre | Guts to Change | Chile | - |
Natalia Lucia Agudelo Alvarez | Guts to Change | Colombia | - |
Ravi Naidoo | Design Indaba | South Africa | - |
Dongming XU | NTNU | Norway | - |
Mike Schragger | The Sustainable Fashion Academy | Sweden | - |
Jens Jacobsen | InnoPilot | Germany | - |
Dr. Johannes Ludvig Zachrisson Daae | Bergfald Miljørådgivere | Norway | - |
Nils Faarlund | Norges Høgfjellsskole | Norway | - |
Mads Bruun Høy og Jannicke Øiaa | Trippel Tekstil bedriftsnettverk | Norway | - |
Tone Tobiasson | NICE Fashion Norway | Norway | - |
- | Varnergruppen | Norway | - |
Dr. Mariana Amatullo | Design Matters at Art Center College of Design | United States | - |
Rachel Troye | Institute of Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) | Norway | - |
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