As the guest last week of Zurich University of the Arts I set the following task to a group of sixteen masters students: “Create the plan for a social harvest festival that will reconnect Zurich with its natural ecosystems and grassroots social innovators.”
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The words we use often shape the ways we look at the world - and hence, the actions we take. Here are some hard words and their soft alternatives.
The money system we have now is ecocidal - but people are designing alternatives.
From potlucks, to time-share: 35 different platforms that probably need to be designed for your locality.
Biennials should connect people to a place, and help them learn from that experience
We take these artefacts for granted - but they'd soon become scarce if our globally-connected economy were to unravel.
[ This text is a shortened version of my talk at last month’s conference in Philadelphia on Architecture & Energy; proceedings of that event will be published as a book later this year. Whilst preparing the talk, and this text, I also prepared this Reading List for Mr [continue …]
As an exercise, I thought I’d share with you (and Mr Monti) the best writers on my reading list – in the order I’ve read them, not in chronological order.
1. TOM MURPHY – DO THE MATH
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The photograph shows John Gorzynski and his vegetables before a hurricane devastated his family’s farm last Autumn. Nestled in a valley of the Catskills, Gorzynski Ornery Farm is where [continue …]
From Theatre Anthropology, to Stone Age Economics
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