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What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How we can help? I write, talk, and advise. We also host offsite/retreats here in France .

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29 Oct 2115720143699415411

Is this a sequel to 'The Value of a Whale'? Find out from Elle Adams (Findhorn, Nairn and Lossie Rivers Trust) who's a keynote in the splendid surroundings of The Royal Geographical Society, London, on Thursday 19 November.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-than-a-fish-tickets-1996782462096?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=bc1bed72bd&mc_eid=b8537e363f

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Interesting: "A Bauhaus for Generative Social Fields (or) Why higher education needs a fourth founding in the age of AI"

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A Bauhaus for Generative Social Fields

Why higher education needs a fourth founding in the age of AI

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also interesting (or I thought so): "Re-wilding the Bauhaus: what its foundation course should be like today" https://thackara.com/knowing/re-wilding-the-bauhaus-what-its-foundation-course-should-be-like-today/

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By 2023, I got it down to one tweet: "The role of design institutions, in today's context, is a practical one. It’s to enable reconnection with nature, and designing for life. That's it"

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What are design institutes actually for?

I was invited by Aric Chen (left, above) director of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, to join a Dutch Design ...

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One million women and girls are starving in flooded tents.

It is strange how the world can cooperate to get oil through the Iranian blockade at the Strait of Hormuz but still aren't able to get aid through the Israeli blockade at the borders of Gaza.

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George Miller Beard (1839 – 1883) associated the condition with "exhaustion of the central nervous system's energy reserves". He attributed the condition to civilization. Was he wrong?

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