Sharon’s opening post kick-starting this EDC Share blog (we have been playing around with a trial blog these past few months whose content, graphics etc. will be merged eventually with this one …) prompted me to go with one of my many Ecodesign Centre highlights this week, the session on skills with Lawrence Hallett. (I know Simon eventually got in first with his blog post ‘definitions and redefinitions’). The talk on skills is incidentally connected back to our intern illustrator Nathan, who Sharon introduced earlier (I am really excited about the newspaper Nathan!). I’ll explain the connection later.

Sharon’s old portfolio and CV (created on CarbonMade) highlights her perceived skills at the time. It raised the question which was my first reaction to her post: what would this skills list look like now Sharon? My guess is greatly different. Something to think about! And how difficult it is to define what anyones skills are?; how difficult is it to develop them further? Even more so when one gets actively involved with, or even embedded in, ecodesign, particularly given its many guises and to borrow Simon’s phrase ‘definitions and redefinitions’!