Flourish : design paradigms for our planetary emergency / Sarah Ichioka & Michael Pawlyn.
Publisher: Axminster : Triarchy Press, 2021Description: 172 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0048917291ISBN: 9781913743260 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Architecture -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable architecture
| Architecture and Planning | Architecture | City & town planning: architectural aspects | Sustainability | Environmentally-friendly ('green') architecture & design | Conservation of the environment | Climate changeDDC classification: 720.47 LOC classification: NA2542.35 | .P3 2021Summary: Proposes regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings, infrastructure and communities Regenerative design and architecture. What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond `sustainability,' `regenerative' practice is increasingly named as a new goal, but what does this emerging term really mean? And which key mindset shifts might enable truly regenerative transformation? Looking deeply into the web of life that created and supports us, and drawing inspiration from diverse cultural traditions and perspectives, spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings, infrastructure, and communities. Whether you're a built environment professional or client, an activist, or a policymaker, Flourish offers an urgent invitation to inhabit a new array of possibilities, through which we can build a thriving future, together.
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Regenerative design and architecture. What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond 'sustainability,' 'regenerative' practice is increasingly named as a new goal, but what does this emerging term really mean? And which key mindset shifts might enable truly regenerative transformation? Looking deeply into the web of life that created and supports us, and drawing inspiration from diverse cultural traditions and perspectives, spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings, infrastructure, and communities. Whether you're a built environment professional or client, an activist, or a policymaker, Flourish offers an urgent invitation to inhabit a new array of possibilities, through which we can build a thriving future, together.
Proposes regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings, infrastructure and communities Regenerative design and architecture. What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond `sustainability,' `regenerative' practice is increasingly named as a new goal, but what does this emerging term really mean? And which key mindset shifts might enable truly regenerative transformation? Looking deeply into the web of life that created and supports us, and drawing inspiration from diverse cultural traditions and perspectives, spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings, infrastructure, and communities. Whether you're a built environment professional or client, an activist, or a policymaker, Flourish offers an urgent invitation to inhabit a new array of possibilities, through which we can build a thriving future, together.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Chapter 1 Possibilism: evidence, uncertainty and agency (p. 21)
- Chapter 2 Co-evolution as nature: stewardship and living systems (p. 43)
- Chapter 3 A longer now: deep, cyclical time and holarchic progress (p. 65)
- Chapter 4 Symbiogenesis: mutualism, citizen-activism and public luxury (p. 87)
- Chapter 5 Planetary health: qualitative development, living metrics and flows (p. 117)
- Conclusion (p. 141)
- Acknowledgements (p. 151)
- Endnotes (p. 157)
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