WELLNESS IN A REGIONAL CONTEXT: NEW MASTERS COURSE Adventure. Tourism. Education photo Sebastien Coell Wellbeing is intimately linked to connection – to other people, but also to place, and the living systems that inhabit it. Relational design creates those connections. Would you like to spend a year developing a project or business idea that reconnects […]
Peak Car, Cloud Commuting, Gram Junkies, Green Tourism, Caloryville
Here are ten stories on all things mobility that I posted too soon. I have a hunch they will resonate better now than when they were written. Is Peak Car Headed For Seneca’s Cliff? (2017) Sharing platforms enable new relationships between people, goods, equipment, and spaces. The consequence? The notion of mobility as a discrete […]
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When Value Arises From Relationships, Not From Things
The following interview with Valentina Croci appears in the March 2018 special edition on innovation of Domus magazine . The print edition is in Italian and English, but does not include all the illustrations I’ve used here). Q1 The consumerist model and our fossil resources have been stretched to their limits. What could be an […]
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“Whatever Makes Your Dough Rise” – Work-In-Progress 2018
Learning the phrase “Whatever Makes Your Dough Rise” was one of many gifts I brought back from a Fellows’ retreat last week at the Good Work Institute in the US. Here is an update on my recent texts, talks and xskool workshops. XSKOOL WORKSHOPS 2018 Our xskools are about city people reconnecting with the land […]
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Connecting the “what is?” with the “what if?”
“The future will be all about cities” – say people who live in cities. Our xskools, in contrast, are about reconnecting with rural communities and looking, together, for ways ways to unlock value. Check out our updated xskool page.
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Is Peak Car Headed for Seneca’s Cliff?
This text follows my recent keynote at Seoul Smart Mobility International Conference. The author thanks Seoul Design Foundation and @Seoul_gov for their invitation. I also thank XuanZheng Wang, professor, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), for alerting me to the @Mobike developments. Two hundred people per second now climb onto a dockless bike somewhere […]
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From Gut to Gaia: The Internet of Things and Earth Repair
The following text appears in the inaugural edition of Ding, a new magazine about the Internet and things, published by the Mozilla Foundation. Ding will be launched at MozFest in London on 27-29 October. On a recent visit to @IAAC in Barcelona, I was charmed by their Smart Citizen platform that enables citizens to monitor […]
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john chris jones at 90
I’m reposting the piece below to celebrate the 9oth birthday (on 7 October) of john chris jones. For jones, writing and living are still intertwined in a sublime but grounded way. I’ve been re-reading “the internet and everyone” by john chris jones. I’ve been astonished once again by the sensibility of an artist-writer-designer whose philosophy […]
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Field-to-Face: Beauty in Biorefining
At Pontio, in North Wales, a new Masters by Research in Relational Design (#api_MRRD) is designed to help you make a positive step-change in a live wellness project for a region. The elements of a thriving bio-economy exist in Wales – but they are disconnected. One project scenario could be a product-service platform that links […]