Festival – John Thackara https://thackara.com designing for life Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:57:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Wild work: connecting the social and ecological by design https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/wild-work-connecting-the-social-and-ecological-by-design/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:55:57 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10705 A week of workshops at California College of the Arts, San Francisco (John is shown with our host Leslie Carol Roberts). An explosion of new economy models is surfacing all around the world: Sharing. Peer-to-Peer. Commons’ ownership. Mobility as a service. Bioregions. Local money. Transition Towns.  Something is happening - but is there a pattern?

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]]> A week of workshops at California College of the Arts, San Francisco (John is shown with our host Leslie Carol Roberts). An explosion of new economy models is surfacing all around the world: Sharing. Peer-to-Peer. Commons’ ownership. Mobility as a service. Bioregions. Local money. Transition Towns.  Something is happening – but is there a pattern?

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]]> Space 10, Copenhagen https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/space-10-copenhagen/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:39:32 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10699 It was a thrill to follow in the steps of Tomorrow's Meatball. We were invited by the Danish Design Centre to run an "Ask Me Anything" lunch at Copenhagen's latest creative innovation lab, Space 10. Our free-ranging discussion revolved around design thinking, business models, emergent technologies, complex challenges and sustainability. ddc.dk/en/

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]]> It was a thrill to follow in the steps of Tomorrow’s Meatball. We were invited by the Danish Design Centre to run an “Ask Me Anything” lunch at Copenhagen’s latest creative innovation lab, Space 10. Our free-ranging discussion revolved around design thinking, business models, emergent technologies, complex challenges and sustainability.

ddc.dk/en/

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]]> Back To The Land 2.0, Stir To Action, England https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/back-to-the-land-2-0-stir-to-action-england/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:56:47 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10686 In Bridport, England, we explored new ways for city people to re-connect with the land—and how to make them happen: Ways that are part-time, but long-term; ways that involve an exchange of value, not just paying money; ways to share knowledge, land, and equipment in new ways; ways based on historical links between town and [continue ...]

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]]> In Bridport, England, we explored new ways for city people to re-connect with the land—and how to make them happen: Ways that are part-time, but long-term; ways that involve an exchange of value, not just paying money; ways to share knowledge, land, and equipment in new ways; ways based on historical links between town and country—but reinvented in an age of networks and social innovation. Afterwards, the Agroecology Land Trust made a to-do list of practical issues that need to be addressed.

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