John Thackara
designing for life
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Health and well being – of people, places, and nature – are the ultimate Public Value
As a word, “sustainable” made us feel good. But words, on their own, don’t make the planet healthier. We want want the real thing, not a verbal substitute. The 'real thing' is practical acts of care - for places, and for people
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Two Time Ecologies: Designing for Production and Designing for Care
Mycelium does not grow to order. It grows according to conditions that are unique to each context: temperature, moisture, earthworms, termites, other insects, microorganisms, precipitation levels, and myriad other factors. Caring for the land involves attuning to these multiple…
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MicroStimuli: The New Science Of Persuasion
One promise of MicroStimuli is that millions more of us will press “Buy”. Could they get us to click a button called “Care”, instead?
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Cooling Infrastructures are Social as well as Technical
As a punishing heatwave headed for a fourth week here in France, a familiar cry went up from the country’s exhausted citizens: “The government must do something”.
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So you want to start an Ecological Learning Centre?
Apart from farming and tourism, what kind of work is available for young people in rural areas today? I talk with Shuchin Shu, an activist (with a Masters in Environmental Art) who heads the Yunhe Forest School in Zhonglu village in China’s Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Region.