week 13: Massive Change

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MASSIVE CHANGE: the world of design designing the world


The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.

Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (1889-1975)



Bruce Mau Bruce Mau Design + The Institute without Boundaries



Economies

urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics


Economies

urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics Lawrence Lessig on „free cultureâ€&#x;


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics Oxford English Dictionary, „open sourceâ€&#x; project circa 1857


“A time is marked by the ideas that are taken for granted.� Lawrence Lessig

urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics



Licence categories: BY, BY-NC, BY-NC, BY-NC-ND, BY-NC-SA, BY-ND, BY-SA


Licence categories: BY, BY-NC, BY-NC, BY-NC-ND, BY-NC-SA, BY-ND, BY-SA


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics The Natural Step + IKEA


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics

The Natural Step + McDonalds, Sweden


Weâ€&#x;re all trying to move towards the stakeholder model, away from the stockholder model. In other words, a company really has responsibility not only

to its investors and shareholders but also to its consumers, its employees, the community, the environment, and future generations. Hazel Henderson, Evolutionary Economist in Massive Change, pp.136-37


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics

Gecko spatulae scanned by electron microscope


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics

Self-healing plastic


urban movement energy information image market material military manufacturing living wealth+politics

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails.


If we are to survive as a life form on the planet, at more or less the scale of our present occupation‌ we must come to the realization that there is no exterior to our ecology. There is only one environment and everything is entered on the balance sheet. Every positive. Every negative. Everything counts.

Bruce Mau, Massive Change, 2004


William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind


Jane Chen: “A Warm Embrace”


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