Sarah Housley

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Consumer Technology Head at WGSN

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Intercepted is a harrowing look at the Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fringe Arts

Dec 16, 2024 | thelinknewspaper.ca | Sarah Housley

Oksana Karpovych reveals the destruction of war through intercepted Russian phone calls and silent imagery Intercepted opens in an idyllic setting: Children are playing outdoors, chalk drawings decorate the sidewalk, a toy stroller sits idly nearby and a child swings gently back and forth. Within seconds, the calm is pierced by an ominous soundscape, transitioning viewers from this tranquil moment to a new scene of a vehicle driving through war-torn Ukraine. Intercepted is directed by...
Jocelyn Gardner

Dec 2, 2024 | thelinknewspaper.ca | Jocelyn Gardner |Sarah Housley |Feature Sarah Housley

The gentrification of thrifting is driving away those who rely on second-hand essentials.
Volume 45, Issue 5

Nov 5, 2024 | thelinknewspaper.ca | Julia Cieri |Sarah Housley |Jocelyn Gardner |Gabriella Meyer

Opinions Western media fails to hide their bias as they cover the current genocide in Gaza. Opinions The Link is dead if you don’t listen Opinions The rise of weight loss drugs is a reminder that the skinny ideal is back.
"Design as we know it is doomed, but that's a good thing for designers"

Aug 15, 2024 | dezeen.com | Sarah Housley

The inevitable transition from a take-make-waste society to a circular economy presents exciting and rewarding challenges for designers, writes Sarah Housley. It's getting harder for designers to sleep at night. As global warming starts to continuously exceed 1.5 degrees celsius, the industries that promote and enable consumerism – including advertising and marketing, but also design – face a clear choice: to radically reorient, or continue to be complicit in the triple planetary crisis.
Sergio Mannino Studio

Apr 13, 2024 | dezeen.com | Dan Howarth |Eleanor Gibson |Natasha Lyons |Sarah Housley

Graphic floor tiles, a pigmented cement desk and curved leather chairs feature in this New York pharmacy, which local firm Sergio Mannino Studio has designed to accompany an online prescription service. More
"The tech hype-cycle is spinning ever-faster"

Oct 17, 2023 | dezeen.com | Sarah Housley

Tech companies must move away from hype-chasing annual product releases in order to drive meaningful design innovation, writes Sarah Housley. The economic shifts of the past 12 months have changed the context for innovation and could help both the tech and design industries move towards a less hype-fuelled, more considered process for product development. It has been said that we are at "the end of free money".
The Power of Language

Sep 5, 2023 | medium.com | Sarah Housley

I'm a design futurist and trend forecaster with more than 13 years' experience in innovation consulting and futures research. I believe that the skill and art of futures thinking should be accessible and available to everyone, because the more futures thinkers there are in the world, the better our collective futures will be. This is the third in a series of articles that aim to explain some key ideas and learnings from my work.