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19 Alternatives to University and Design School in Africa and Australasia
AFRICA Agroecology Training In Africa Statement at Masvingo District, Zimbabwe, 20 June 2011: ”We are 47 people from 22 organizations in 18 countries (Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Angola, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Central African Republic, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Portugal, USA, France, and Germany). We are farmers and staff representing member [...]
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Design and Energy: Thirteen Great Writers
This Reader introduces a physicist, a mathematician, an actuary, an ecologist, a stoic, and a Druid.
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Rules Of The Road For Design And Innovation
“We will deliver value to people — not deliver people to systems” – and 17 other easily followed rules
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Green Infrastructure: What Is It?
What is a ‘living system’? Here are 20 elements of a green infrastructure.
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Hard Words And Soft Words
The words we use often shape the ways we look at the world – and hence, the actions we take. Here are some hard words and their soft alternatives.
How To Make Our Own Money – A Reading List
Learn about the many ways people are designing replacements for the ecocidal money system we have now.
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Social Tools: A Solidarity Economy To-Do List
From potlucks, to time-share: 35 different platforms that probably need to be designed for your locality.
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28 Ways In Which Food Systems Are a Design Opportunity
127 calories of energy are used to grow and export one calorie of lettuce from the US to the UK. Plus 27 other opportunities to grow a new food system.
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Doomer To-Do List: 100 Items Likely To Disappear First
Many practical things we take for granted would begin disappear if our globally connected economy were to unravel.
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Design Grammars for Health and Care
Health and wellbeing are not something you ‘deliver’, like a pizza. These are the main points of a talk at the Mayo Clinic.
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The Five Skills Of A Resilience Impresario
Citizen co-design is time-intensive, and hard. Otherwise stated: design for resilience is an acorns business.
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Does Your Research Exist? 15 Tips To Ensure That It Does
An internet sage once said that a web page never accessed does not really exist. Does the same logic apply to your design research? Here are 15 tips.
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Speaking at Doors: a few hints
Allow one hour of preparation for every minute you will be on stage – plus 20 other tips for great talks.
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