Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies
Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems
Exploring circular governance across eight nested scales, emphasizing material, social, and energy flows, aimed at fostering bio-regional regeneration and resilience through systemic design principles and collaborative interactions.
tobiasluthe.deDespite the potential of circular manufacturing and regenerative design, today’s pioneering industrial and urban designers face a formidable challenge: working with business, finance and governments that are still trapped within the mindset and metrics of degenerative economic design.
Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
The design world reinvents assumptions and recombines ideas to turn “What if?” and “How might we?” into “What we can do.” Design thinking will be critical in taking the world of Collaborative Consumption out of the realm of possibilities and into real workable solutions, solutions that fulfill our consumer whims, desires, and unarticulated needs, b
... See moreRachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Out of disparate scholarship and studies, scholars in the United Kingdom have identified five core strategies for circular design:
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
Involves six principles to encompass nature and non-human beings; zoom in and out across time, scale and self; and embrace circularity, existing assets and re-use, rather than an emphasis on new.
Cat Drew • Developing our new Systemic Design Framework
Regenerative design seeks to not merely do less harm when designing, but rather to put design to work as a positive force that restores, renews or revitalises. A concept that’s inherent in nature, regeneration should be the approach for how we interact with the planet.
space10.com • Regenerative by Design
It seems a radical idea, but as the climate crisis deepens, ‘sustainable design’ and ‘doing less harm’ are not enough to avert catastrophe – we have to find ways to replenish ecosystems while meeting our own needs.