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While the trend for a century or more has been to make urban environments frictionless, a recent counter-trend has tried to slow things down, reintroducing pedestrianised areas, or making children’s play areas slightly less safe so as to help them learn about risk. Going further, we could imagine environments that prompt wisdom, not just by providi
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Real change happens when you’re inside an experience. When you're working through your own challenge, alongside others, and you're pushed to think in ways you haven’t before. That’s what this is about.
Dan Ariely on Meta-Skills, Questioning & Leadership Clarity — The Future Village™
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It was then we realised it was crucial to build something more long term, a more permanent way to showcase possibility, build, create, prototype and scale solutions as we worked on the pressing challenges facing our city.’
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
In this article, I set to understand and explore fundamental thinking that examines a new design worldview. A proposal to change our ways of working as designers, first in voluntary communities (which we already have, but with different goals) and then to be better equipped to understand and explore as individuals and as a community.