At Pontio, in North Wales, a new Masters by Research in Relational Design (#api_MRRD) helps you make a positive step-change in a live wellness project for a region. One project scenario could be to develop a tool, and a collaboration platform, to monitor the health of nature in new ways. Just one gram of forest […]
Arborists Arising: From Tree Care to Tree Camping
At Pontio, in North Wales, a new Masters by Research in Relational Design (#api_MRRD) helps you make a positive step-change in a live wellness project for a region. One project scenario could involve performance equipment for professional arborists.
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Beyond Adventure
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. One project scenario could be to re-invent Outward Bound as a co-operation platform that connects citizens, sports adventure companies, and public bodies.
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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 […]
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Wellness In A Regional Context: New Masters Course
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 […]
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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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Social Farming
At Pontio, in North Wales, a new Masters by Research in Relational Design (#api_MRRD) helps you make a positive step-change in a live wellness project for a region. Here is one project scenario: develop a service, or platform, to meet the growing need for social farming. Scroll down for other project ideas. (Shown above: a […]