Dawn Danby is an Industrial Designer who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and received her MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in 2007. She originally went to school for art and became a designer, because of her interest in environmental issues. She calls herself a cross-disciplinary designer for her many different talents, which she has applied to her work throughout the past few years.
In collaboration with WorldChanging (a non-profit organization of journalists, designers, and other environmentally conscious people who bring new ideas to consumers to inform the public and promote a green future) Danby co-authored WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century (2006), which touched on issues of environmental sustainable designs, technology and art. Her main purpose of the book is to inform people of the benefits of thinking green and building a green future. In 2007 Dawn Danby collaborated with Jyoti Stephens and Mary Rick to develop a solution to British Columbia's food importing to create local food distribution called the Beeline project. Their goal is to make consumers aware of the benefits of supporting local farmers and buying locally grown food. In collaboration they created a more simple transportation route starting from Vancouver to other cities, eventually making a full circle back to Vancouver. The products would also be tracked by RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification Device) to track who is buying and selling, to bring farmers together to reach new markets, eliminate emissions and CO2, and to informer consumers. (pictures?)
Danby also manages Autodesk a computer software company that creates sustainable design programs. Autodesk allows users to create 3D computer models of entire cities. It enables users to design sustainable buildings while calculating data on how much energy will be used to construct the building and how much energy the building will use. It also makes it possible to create models that are sustainable with clean energy and will give data on how much energy will be captured from the surrounding environment. Autodesk offers eight different programs, four of which are CAD programs and the other four are programs for design, modeling new mechanical products, animation, and other 3D designs. Autodesk promotes designers to create entire green sustainable cities and products with accurate data.Danby puts a large emphasis on designing cities and products that are environmentally friendly. She holds the idea of learning to design with and her goal to inform the public of pressing environmental issues.
Danby today is apart of The Green Corridor in Canada, which is to revamp city slumps across Canada, “the industrial rustbelt”, by bringing nature into urban environments. The project will create a eco-friendly environment linking Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan. Danby has also designed a pedestrian footbridge lined with trees and wind turbines.
Dawn Danby on her own time has designed sustainable furniture and other products. She practices all forms of art giving her an interdisciplinary perspective. He also gives lectures promoting sustainable design and operates her own website, Sustainable Design Portal (http://eco.barkingcrickets.org/) promoting sustainable designs, with links to websites, designers, architects, artists, books, and anything that promotes green technology and sustainable design.
Dawn Danby is an environmentally conscious designer who strives to work with the environment and believes we can learn from our surroundings. She actively is working on current environmental issues and believes that designers should inform the public and give them the tools to build a more sustainable future. Danby has learned to embrace technology by using the Internet to promote environmental issues and to inform the public. She also actively uses computers to create accurate 3D computer models to predict future sustainable city designs.
http://eco.barkingcrickets.org/
http://greencorridor.ca/
http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20071005/sourcing-it-dawn-danby-of-aylanto-icff-2007
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