Nabila Ahmed

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

…artefacts are a gift to their future selves, and to anyone else who might come across the same problem and try to solve it. Even if one person disappears, our collective memory carries on.

-Nadia Asparouhova, Antimemetics

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

Cringe is more than just internet slag: It’s an entirely new, and dangerous, way of operating. Before cringe, people just….tried things, some of which landed, and come of which did not. Cringe suppresses the truth-tellers: The chaotic, creative idiots who gleefully prod us to reassess what we thing we know and believe. It raises the cost of taking

…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

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

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)