Sublime

Use a high-level organizer.

If we approach a learning design with the longer view in mind, acknowledging what we can and cannot accomplish, we can create better ways to help people and ensure that there is a long-term plan.

Elinor Ostrom,

Center for Media Justice, Coding Rights (Brazil), the Critical Making Lab, Data Active, Decolonising Design, the Design Studio for Social Intervention, Design Trust for Public Space, the Digital Justice Lab (Toronto), FemTechNet, Intelligent Mischief (Brooklyn), MIT CoLab, SEED Network, Social Justice Design Studio, and the Tech Equity Collective,

If we are going to take responsibility for our products from birth to rebirth, and if we encourage our customers to send in their pants for repair, and if at the end of their lives we promise to recycle them into other valuable products, then the smartest thing we can do is make those pants last as long as possible because you really don’t want to

But the idea generation, the give-and-take over developing a model—in these aspects of the process, the staff are eager to say, anyone is welcome to participate. It’s an ethics, almost a performance, this simplicity and humility, from builders who are as precise as any master carpenter. The workshop wants the message to be one of accessibility in t

Materials are heavy and should stay local. Ideas and people are light and are global.’ This deceptively simple axiom – materials are heavy, ideas are light – suggests that scale is achieved not by exporting materials […] but by exporting the principles of bioregional design instead. […]