Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies
Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems
Exploring circular governance across eight nested scales, emphasizing material, social, and energy flows, aimed at fostering bio-regional regeneration and resilience through systemic design principles and collaborative interactions.
tobiasluthe.deEzio Manzini is a professor of industrial design at Politecnico di Milano and a thought leader on strategic design for sustainability. He breaks down the process of designing what he calls collaborative service systems into four critical design components: fluidity of use, replication, diversified access, and enhanced communications support.8 Manzi
... See moreRachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
It seems a radical idea, but as the climate crisis deepens, ‘sustainable design’ and ‘doing less harm’ are not enough to avert catastrophe – we have to find ways to replenish ecosystems while meeting our own needs.
Malaika Byng • Regenerative design: meet the creatives taking a rooting interest in learning from nature
The design world reinvents assumptions and recombines ideas to turn “What if?” and “How might we?” into “What we can do.” Design thinking will be critical in taking the world of Collaborative Consumption out of the realm of possibilities and into real workable solutions, solutions that fulfill our consumer whims, desires, and unarticulated needs, b
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