Art, design & social innovation – exploring creative strategies for more human, self reflective and life-sustaining systems
Designing or not designing for a planetary scale23 Dec 2016No Comments
For my “Design for the Century class” we were asked to compose a final paper “extending your Design Manifesto into the realm of design at a very comprehensive scale: our century and planet. (…) In this text you will construct ...
Systems thinking and capitalism10 Dec 2016No Comments
In “The End of Capitalism (as we know it)”, authors J.K. Gibson-Graham challenge notions common within the anti-capitalist movement that argue that capitalism is such a hegemonic all-encompassing force that there is no outside to it.The authors a...
Building social and environmental resilience at the Bronx River07 Dec 2016No Comments
How might we simultaneously build social as well as environmental resilience, and strengthen the capacity of local communities to resist or transform the effects of gentrification and climate change and pollution? The above-mentioned topic was explor...