Design for Multi-Species Cities
Background reading for a workshop: "Design an urban ecology tool, equipment, place, or experience, that will enhance the interdependence of all life in practical ways".
Design and Energy: Thirteen Great Writers
1. TOM MURPHY – DO THE MATH
If you suspect, but cannot prove, that modern life simply does not add up, you’ll love Tom Murphy’s work. His focus, as a physicist, is to understand whether the impossibility of indefinite physical growth – for example in energy, food, or manufacturing – means that economic [continue …]
Designing for Life in Practice: 80 Case Study Collections
Creating a new world among the ruins of the old: Here are 80+ collections of stories about people designing for life in practice
Social Food Green Paper
Agriculture and food are not just about production and consumption - they are about relationships, too
Food Systems and Design
new ways to think about food and food systems - how to be, as well as what to do, in a food context
Design and Energy: Thirteen Great Writers
1. TOM MURPHY – DO THE MATH
If you suspect, but cannot prove, that modern life simply does not add up, you’ll love Tom Murphy’s work. His focus, as a physicist, is to understand whether the impossibility of indefinite physical growth – for example in energy, food, or manufacturing – means that economic [continue …]
On Regarding The Pain Of The Planet – A Reader
Why is it that shocking stories and images fail to change things? Are there different ways of knowing the world, than merely looking?
Wild Learning: 96 Ecological Learning Resources
We allowed the metabolic interaction between man and the earth to wither - but these educators are working on a cure.
The True And Hidden Costs Of Stuff
Do you simply love iPhones, wind turbines, cloud computing, and electric cars? Good, because the following may be of interest:
How To Curate A Social Harvest Festival
A big part of social innovation involves connecting people with each other in ways that are inclusive, uncomplicated, inexpensive, and joyful.
Design Grammars for Health and Care
Health and wellbeing are properties of social-ecological systems - so how you design in those?
Relocalising? 100 Locally Needed Skills
From fish smokers to button makers - there's so much to do.
The Five Skills Of A Resilience Impresario
How to develop a shared vision among multiple stakeholders - and the other capabilities we need.
Design for Good: Eight Rules of Engagement
So you want to do good? Here's how to avoid the sloppy assumptions that can underly 'design for development'.
Eight Commons Design Principles
Rules that would prevent us from over-harvesting the Commons.
12 Principles Guiding An Holistic, True Cost, Economy
When and how to choose between ownership, stewardship, and partnership.
20 Elements Of Green Infrastructure
What is a 'living system'? Here are 20 elements of a green infrastructure.
28 Ways In Which Food Systems Are a Design Opportunity
127 calories of energy are used to grow a lettuce for each calory we eat. One bottle of ketchup entails 52 transport and process stages. Does that sound sensible?
The Ethics Of Innovation In 25 Common Sense Commandments
"We will deliver value to people — not deliver people to systems" - and 17 other easily followed rules
Ten Power Laws Of Innovation
"Don't think 'new product' - think social and ecological value". Plus nine other rules.
Ten Features of Ecological Law
Why we need Ecological Law and what it would contain
Relocalising? 66 Universals of Culture
What human cultural needs have stood the test of time?
Ten Ways To Redesign Design Competitions
Exhibits and competitions should be a means to an end, not the end itself. What would be a worthwhile end?
Speaking at Doors of Perception: a few hints
Allow one hour of preparation for every minute you will be on stage - plus other easy-to-follow rules.
Transition: How to Start, In 12 Steps
The Transition movement prefers 'steps' to 'plans'. Here are 12.
34 Alternatives to University or Design School in Europe
From alternative technology in Wales, to Gaia Studies in Norway
24 Alternatives to University and Design School in Africa and Australasia
From Agroecology training In Africa to social ecology in Australia
50 Alternatives to University and Design School in the Americas & Canada
From Bioregional Planning in Idaho, to permaculture in Brazil
Hard Words And Soft Words
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.
Relocalising? How To Make Our Own Money
The money system we have now is ecocidal - but people are designing alternatives.
Relocalising? Social Tools For Solidarity
From potlucks, to time-share: 35 different platforms that probably need to be designed for your locality.
Next Generation Biennials: My How-To Guide
Biennials should connect people to a place, and help them learn from that experience
Relocalising? 100 Items Likely To Disappear First
We take these artefacts for granted - but they'd soon become scarce if our globally-connected economy were to unravel.
100 Books
From Theatre Anthropology, to Stone Age Economics