Living Systems Proposal A proposal for the Living Systems Art + Design Collaboratory presented by Design Science Studio at the Buckminster Fuller Institute in partnership with habRitual + The Emergent Media DesignLab at the University of California, Irvine.
Experience Mental Models for Human Experience Transcending human-centered design, this is design that seeks to learn from nature, to put into practice the knowledge and principles of biomimicry to reimagine and redesign our environment, to reconnect ourselves to our own humanity and to reconnect us to the earth and all living things.
Living Systems The Big Picture I have been trying to propose another way of looking at the world that we have designed as part of a much larger system that we barely understand and that we are only beginning to acknowledge has been profoundly impacted by our actions on this earth.
Living Systems Breaking Bread Social architecture is the art and science of living systems. We are recognizing that we are no longer designing tools and physical artifacts. We are designing human experience. We are all engaged in the human project.
Design Design for Resilience The design community is discovering their own complicity in propping up corporate and capitalistic hierarchies that are increasing inequities, maintaining oppressive workplaces, and limiting opportunities for learning, collaboration, autonomy, and creativity.
Technology Social Arc The built environment is an extension of who we aspire to be as a group of human beings living and working in the spaces that we share in common. When we build, we project our aspirations into the future. What we build then shapes us into who we will become.
Architecture Social Architecture Walter Gropius was able to realize his vision for the community by creating a building in Dessau that represented the philosophical and aesthetic vision of the Bauhaus as well as the physical spaces that encompassed the life of the students, artists and masters.
Time, Energy & Resources Focusing Time, Energy and Resources To attain a state of flow will require the ability to limit the amount of stimuli in the work environment, to silence the distractions, and to concentrate one’s time, energy, resources and focus on a single specific, achievable task at each given moment.
