Sublime

Tom Atlee’s work offers profound inspiration and practical support for people willing to live the questions together in order to redesign the human presence on Earth.

As Manzini’s principles demonstrate, designers should be thinking more and more about the system in which a product or service is being used—all of the physical and cultural interfaces that intersect to create the context of usage. Although system design will become ever more important, products do still exist in Collaborative Consumption. Whether

Breakthrough.

Indy had founded an organisation called Dark Matter Labs as an architecture-practice-meets-think-tank- meets-innovation-consultancy (my summary) when he realised that the kind of housing projects he wanted to develop – projects that prized community and human connection – were virtually impossible within the framework of contemporary property right

this approach is ‘not anti-car, it’s pro-community’.

Rather than telling each public organisation how to be more imaginative, it would invite them, with help from skilled facilitators and inspiring examples, to create their own strategies.

A synopsis of the field of information design culminates in the shift in thinking from designing information to designing experiences.

so long as growth remains a company’s prime directive, any promise to leave the world ‘as unspoilt as possible’ will remain an empty one.