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seems to me if there is an answer, it lies in these words: restraint, quality, and simplicity.
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
Damien Lutz • The life-centred design compass
As a third cardinal feature, place-based changes must be sustainable, without the need for constant and conscious maintenance of positive behavior or the perpetual persuasion of individuals to be safe and healthy. Employee exercise programs, for example, require employees that are committed to volunteering and maintaining their involvement in the p
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.”
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
Dr Matt Dowse • What Good Is Innovation if It Doesn’t Work for Everyone?
Big Ideas: “How we can eliminate single use packaging” with Mike Newman, CEO of Returnity…
Christina D. Warnermedium.com
In the present scheme of large-scale obsolescence a few corporate centers of decision-making impose compulsory innovation on the entire society. Continued convivial reconstruction depends on the degree to which society protects the power of individuals and of communities to choose their own styles of life through effective, small-scale renewal.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
If designed well, the users might interact with it as intended. Flaws in the design or its material construction might result in the gate being propped open by frustrated users or the creation of a secondary means of entry or egress. This probabilistic design philosophy assumes that the actors and environment are both active together—perhaps even i
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