From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost
“Housing that is dignified, durable, beautiful and adaptable, and made available for all.” Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato dream big
“Peace isn’t the absence of war, but a dynamic process that can be built, nurtured and sustained”. Designing Peace shows the creative possibilities
How can the productions of architects and designers help mitigate and prevent environmental disasters? “Design failure” is often a cause
“We're living through a global 'blandemic' in building design - an age of boring”, says Thomas Heatherwick, who wants emotion to return to architecture
Norway's Minus makes "carbon-negative" chairs that you "subscribe" to - ensuring they end up as bio-char
4TH SECTOR, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICS, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, ARTISTS, REGEN ECONOMIES, TECHNOLOGYpat kanedesign, design ethics, circular economy, furniture, norway
Offline and online, coming out of Berlin, maybe a "School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe" is exactly what you need
4TH SECTOR, ARTISTS, NEW ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY, REGEN ECONOMIES, LEARNING, INGENUITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIESpat kaneschools, college, berlin, design, design thinking, ecodesign
“If we design well, we design for shared aliveness”. Speaking from China, John Thackara lays out an economy defined by care
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“When we design, we really have to be feeling the Earth in some way, we cannot continue to inflict damage on it.” RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner, Yasmeen Lari
In the move from enlightenment to entanglement, Indy Johar sees a new path through a world in flux
Dezeen's new Climate Salon podcast explores how designers and architects can help us pursue "radical sustainable living"
The AI Midjourney helps us imagine what mixing a traditional school bus, with a mobile school, would look like
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Join the CreaTures - a ideas bank for artistic and creative practice, in an eco-social direction
It's a coming new economy, says John Thackera - and its concerns are "care for life, and care for place"
Italy's Domus magazine bring us eco-modern beauty: the forthcoming Burning Man temple, and Bologna's Museum of Girls and Boys
Here's the world's first 3D-printed net-zero home, producing as much energy as it consumes
A day of visionary urbanists and community designers, speaking at Turkey's Harvest Kaplankaya
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"Somewhere between back to the land and back to the future": the architects who built a mini-topia in Vermont
“Fixers” know and see different things than “designers” or “users”. Shannon Mattern on the growing centrality of maintenance
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Waste Age: designers should begin designing with the minimisation of waste as their prime goal