Dr. Jeremy Faludi is a sustainable design strategist and researcher. He teaches at TU Delft’s faculty of industrial design engineering, and consults. He has also taught at Stanford, Dartmouth, California College of the Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and elsewhere.
He has contributed to seven books in the field, being lead author of Sustainable Design from Vision to Action, also working on Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century and the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design. He authored the VentureWell Tools for Design and Sustainability website, co-authored the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop, and was lead author of the OECD’s policy recommendations for sustainable additive manufacturing (green 3D printing).
He designed the first version of the Biomimicry Institute’s database AskNature.org, and a bicycle he helped design appeared in the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2007 exhibit “Design for the Other 90%”. His Whole System Mapping method has been used by over 30 companies. He created the Total Cost of Ownership scorecard for combining product repairability and durability, and the Street Nature Score website for scoring and mapping urban nature. He co-created the Design Intent Tool for Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
He has given sustainable design workshops, lectures, and training materials to over 90 conferences, companies, and universities around the world, including Steelcase, Google, The Gap, The North Face, Mattel, Arup, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, SustainableBrands, Trellis (GreenBiz), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and more. He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Wired, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, 60 Minutes, and others.
Originally trained as a physicist at Reed College, he received his masters in product design at Stanford and his PhD in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley. To book presentations, workshops, or other services, email Jer(at)faludidesign(dot)com.