Nabila Ahmed

The Story of the Place

The story of place as a context serves multiple purposes:

First, history has shown that we will not sustain the will needed to make and maintain the needed changes, day after day, without evoking the spirit of caring that comes from a deep connection to place. A clear cultural narrative is needed to convey the connection to a

Aspects of a regenerative approach to design

• Understanding the master pattern of place

• Translating the patterns into design guidelines and conceptual design

• Ongoing feedback – a conscious process of learning and participation through action, reflection and dialogue

If the process of transformative change is the greatest barrier standing in the way of achieving a sustainable condition, it seems the aspect of ‘how one changes’ should be of great interest to the design and building community.

-Bill Reed

there are two different kinds of change: one that occurs within a given system which itself remains unchanged, and one whose occurrence changes the system itself. (Watzlawick et al., 1980, quoted in Sterling, 2003)

Explicit resistance to bureaucracy tends to be ineffective, because there is no clear authority to overthrow. Because nobody is singularly responsible for bad protocols, participants can get trapped in indefinitely in suboptimal outcomes.

-Nadia Asparouhova, Antimemetics

…bureaucracies can be thought of as a type of antimemeplex, in which a series of antimemes act together to stay hidden from our awareness.

-Nadia Asparouhova, Antimemetics