{"id":7365,"date":"2014-12-17T01:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westhollywooddesigndistrict.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/17\/ethical-design-rug\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T07:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T07:58:52","slug":"ethical-design-rug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/ethical-design-rug\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Design &#038; Rug Manufacturing: A Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A timely discussion titled &#8220;The Unseen Hand: Craft, Design, and Social Change&#8211;\u00a0How the Design Industry Can Transform the World&#8221; hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dwell<\/a> brought attention to child labor in rug\u00a0manufacturing and highlighted current efforts for sustainable design. The panel\u00a0discussed the authority designers have to not only make ethical and informed decisions on rug sources themselves, but also guide their buyers&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwell.com\/post\/slideshow\/dwell-and-goodweave-explore-ethical-design\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7369 size-full\" src=\" https:\/\/www.westhollywooddesigndistrict.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/dwell-good-weave-blog-4-3.jpg\" alt=\"dwell-good-weave-blog-4\" width=\"655\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The panel discussion included Scott Welker, director of business development of <a href=\"http:\/\/goodweave.org\/home.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoodWeave<\/a>, Shirley Shivhon, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/shivhon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shivhon Rugs<\/a>,\u00a0Kristi Nelson of <a href=\"http:\/\/kmnelsondesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KMNelson Design<\/a>, and West Hollywood Design District&#8217;s Ahmad Ahmadi of <a href=\"https:\/\/westhollywooddesigndistrict.com\/directory\/ariana-rugs-inc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ariana Rugs, Inc<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwell.com\/post\/slideshow\/dwell-and-goodweave-explore-ethical-design\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7367 size-full\" src=\" https:\/\/www.westhollywooddesigndistrict.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/dwell-good-weave-blog-2-3.jpg\" alt=\"dwell-good-weave-blog-2\" width=\"655\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ariana Rugs Inc., an Afghan-American Company, has been committed to ending child labor in the rug\u00a0industry and beyond. Not only is Ariana known for their innovative techniques and sustainable practices, but they also have a child-labor free environment and a foundation allowing for women workers to feel safe and independent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwell.com\/post\/slideshow\/dwell-and-goodweave-explore-ethical-design#1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7368 size-large\" src=\" https:\/\/westhollywooddesigndistrict.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/dwell-good-weave-blog-3-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Peter Christiansen Valli\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the positive efforts made by <a href=\"http:\/\/goodweave.org\/home.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoodWeave<\/a>. For more on the event, read the coverage\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwell.com\/post\/article\/dwell-and-goodweave-explore-ethical-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dwell<\/a>. Images courtesy of Peter Christiansen Valli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A timely discussion titled &#8220;The Unseen Hand: Craft, Design, and Social Change&#8211;\u00a0How the Design Industry Can Transform the World&#8221; hosted by Dwell brought attention to child labor in rug\u00a0manufacturing and highlighted current efforts for sustainable design. The panel\u00a0discussed the authority designers have to not only make ethical and informed decisions on rug sources themselves, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5666362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,15],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-7365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-design","category-events","tag-design"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666361,"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions\/5666361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.optikal.com\/whdd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}