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Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions featured in Architectural Digest

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Stanford's Center for Ocean Solutions was recently featured in an article about design and climate change in Architectural Digest. The article, "How Conservationist Designers Are Reacting to Climate Change," explores what experts in wildlife, parks, waterways, and education are attempting to do through design to address the unbuilt world as ground zero for the unfolding climate crisis. Many in the design community have committed themselves to looking at land and ocean conservation as a whole more than as the sum of its parts.

The article explores how design innovation is taking place in education and highlights Stanford's Oceans x Design course, in which students from multidisciplinary backgrounds use human-centered design approaches to identify new technologies for small-scale fisheries, and develop approaches and tools to support island states in their conservation efforts. 

“Design offers a way to look at problems through a more creative lens and to find new opportunities for solutions,” says d.school executive director Sarah Stein Greenberg. “How do you take human needs into account when considering conservation? That’s where design can, and must, come up with some unconventional, but very effective, solutions.”

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