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globalisation ‘has stripped us of imagination because it’s all about replication, it’s all about spreading your brand around the world. In order to do that, you have to reach the common denominator, you have to routinise, make things the same. It’s the opposite of imagination’.19 Local economies, she told me, are by nature more imaginative as they

Materials are heavy and should stay local. Ideas and people are light and are global.’ This deceptively simple axiom – materials are heavy, ideas are light – suggests that scale is achieved not by exporting materials […] but by exporting the principles of bioregional design instead. […]