Lien De Ruyck

Taking on a holistic approach to design and systems’ thinking can help us understand how different elements relate to each other — and helps us remember that the world is an interconnected web. Everything we design is part of a whole that has a wider social and ecological impact.

Instead of making things that add value back to a system, our current linear economic model extracts and processes raw materials from nature, produces pollution and returns negative externalities back to the planet in the form of waste — which then affects all living things in negative ways. Externalities are things not accounted for in the current... See more

The Circular Economy—Designing for longevity and reuse of materials beyond the first use

The first Wave Spell of the Tzolkin matrix. Thirteen days (as fractal units of time) for nurturing our being and reconnecting with our spirituality as a way of sensing the abundance of our planet Earth inviting all life to bloom.

Net positive business model canvas