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In the face of social and environmental challenges, a vibrant, international grassroots “transition movement” is working to build local community resilience. How do designers identify their role and become a voice in this movement?
Social Ecologist/design theorist Gideon Kossoff is interviewed by a Utah radio station on Trasition Design; a new area of design practice, study and research. Transition design calls for 'design-led' societal change in the transition to more sustainable futures.
Shipping Container is Home in Savannah Woods
An artist has turned a shipping container into a modernist house in the woods outside Savannah. Beautiful.
THE COMMONS refers to the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth.
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A project to clean up the oceans 'by design'
This project by Boyan Slat proposes a design to clear the oceans of man-made waste. His proposal is to work with the garbage gyre to clean the world's oceans in 5 years. A project worth funding. An example of the power and potential of design/designers.
TOP TEN BOOKS FOR DESIGNERS
1. David Orr, Earth in Mind
2. Christopher Williams, The Origins of Form
3. Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form
4. Norman Crowe, Nature and the Idea of a Man Made World
5. Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life
6. Stephan Toulmin, Cosmopolis
7. Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy
8. Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
9. Azby Brown, Just Enough
10. Henri Bortoft, The Wholeness of Nature
The forms of life are not 'finished works' but always forms 'becoming'. The becoming that belongs to this constitution is not a process that finishes when it reaches a certain goal, but a condition of existence—a necessity to change in order to remain the same."
Ronald Brady, Goethe and the Sciences
CMU School of Design's New Grad Studio
Our new graduate studio came online last year!
Design must disengage itself from consumer culture as the primary shaper of its identity and find a terrain where it can begin to rethink its role in the world. The result of this activity, if successful, will be a new power for the designer to participate in projects for the welfare of humankind both inside and outside the market economy.
Victor Margolin, The Politics of the Artificial
Worldview and Design
"Grow Small, Think Beautiful" by Stephan Harding
Ideas for a sustainable world from Schumacher College. Both my partner, Gideon Kossoff and I have articles in this book, along with Ezio Manzini, Fritjof Capra, James Lovelock and Satish Kumar. I received an MSc in Holistic Science from Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in Devon, England. In 2004 I joined the faculty and taught design to students on the program. Schumacher offers masters degrees along with 1-3 week short courses: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/
Wicked Problems and the Relationship Triad
A paper which connects wicked design problems to chaos and complexity theories and proposes a simple framework for how to design for them.
5 Things I Wish I'd Known 35 Years Ago: Design Resilience
A talk given at the CompostModern conference in San Francisco, 2013.
Christopher Williams explains the origins of form
Origins of Form by Christopher Williams is one of the best books I've read in terms of understanding how both natural and human-made forms 'come into being'. Don't be fooled by the cover. This is a serious book about the temporal dynamics of form and a must-read for all designers.
Ecological Design: Talk at the University of Vermont, 2008
A discussion of ecological design given at the Gund Institute.
Now, you don't see this everyday...
A pinterest board of things you don't...
Design the Future Lecture Series
CMU School of Design's lecture series archives lectures. You can listen to previous lecturers here: Design the Future.