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@johnthackara
LIFE’S WORKFrom doing less harm, to
leaving things better
Systems Oriented DesignOslo, 16 October 2014
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1 Doing less harm2 Leaving things better3 Unprincipled designing
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“growth”
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One x 60
“developing”
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“developing”
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Stockholm Resilience Centre
“resilience”
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metabolic rift
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there’s good news, too !
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good news #1
“the ecological catastrophe has already occurred”
(Tim Morton, Ecology Without Nature)
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good news #2
transformational phase shifts are not necessarily a bad
thing
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“no new buildings, power stations or hard infrastructure after 2020”
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“A global transformation of
values has already begun...a
more sustainable society would
be welcomed by a significant
part of world society”
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C A T A G E N E S I S
“renewal through reversion to a simpler state - followed by the emergence of a
novel form of society”
“The Upside of Down”
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healing the metabolic rift
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Céline Boyer
reconnecting with place
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reconnecting with soilsSaturday, 14 March 15
reconnecting with soils
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‘the economy’ > bioregioning
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new mexico
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landlording
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watershed recovering (STRAW, USA)
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reconnecting with rivers (Mexico City)
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29river regenerating (Philadelphia)
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watershed regenerating (Jamaica Bay, USA)Saturday, 14 March 15
farming as schooling (Yorkshire)
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pollinator wayfinding (Seattle)
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watershed managing (Tucson) Saturday, 14 March 15
urban orcharding(Dundee)
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foodscaping (Den Haag)
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reconnecting with biodiversity
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social innovation is everywhere
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“urbanologyjeitinho””
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transacting smartly
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urbanacupuncturing
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Maker Fairemaking
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off-grid greywater system making (Amsterdam)
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food system connecting(France)
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Community Supported Baking (Lapland)
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London
nomadic incubating
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connectingurban dots
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reconnecting with each other
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“models of the world are not the world”Ranulph Glanville
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“or me”
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“you cannotknow what it is like to
be me”
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informal formal
support ecology
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system health = property of a social/ecological context not something you ‘deliver’, like a pizza
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“attending to root causes”marc rettig
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Ernst Haeckel, 1904
“health of a social-ecological system”
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Designing like a slime mould?
verbs, not nouns
social + ecological
place-specific
diversity, not optimality
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don’t say (or think)
“deliver” - it’s not a pizza
“intervene” - it’s not a fight
“impact” - it’s not a meteorite
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@johnthackara
thank you
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