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People Doing Stuff: 80 Case Study Collections of Designing for Life in Practice
Majority World: Agroecology (50+ videos) (Dictionnaire d’Agroécologie) [continue ...]
Multi-species Cities and Relational Design : Reading/Watching List
A class of 16 product and interaction design masters students was asked to design an urban ecology tool, equipment, place, or experience, that would enhance the interdependence of all life in practical ways.
Social Food Green Paper
Our starting point is that agriculture and food are not just about production and consumption. They are about relationships, too – with each other, with the land, and with living systems.
Back To The Land 2.0
Food Systems and Design Reader: This reading list is for students on the summer course I run together with Konstfack, in Sweden. These texts span new ways to think about food and food systems - how to be, as well as what to do, in a food context.
Wild Learning: 96 Ecological Learning Resources
Although we've allowed the metabolic interaction between man and the earth to wither, 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:
Six Key Elements and Five Steps Of 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?
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.
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.