Designing regenerative cultures
This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy,...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Axminster, England
Triarchy Press
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword ˜ David Orr -- Foreword ˜ Graham Leicester -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Living the Questions: Why change the narrative now? -- Questioning dangerous ideologies -- Facing complexity means befriending uncertainty and ambiguity -- Caring for the Earth is caring for ourselves and our community -- Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world -- The 'why' will guide the 'what' and the 'how' -- Spirituality, soul and solitude in nature -- Sustainability as a learning journey: pilgrims and apprentices -- Sustainability is not enough -- we need regenerative cultures -- Chapter 2 - Why choose transformative over sustaining innovation? -- The Three Horizons of innovation and culture change -- Evaluating disruptive innovation in the age of transition -- Transformative innovation is about deep questioning -- Sensitivity to scale, uniqueness of place and local culture -- The transformative power of social innovation -- Collaborative consumption and peer-to-peer collaboration -- Facilitating systems innovation and culture change -- Chapter 3 - Why do we need to think and act more systemically? -- Believing is seeing and seeing is believing -- The whole is more than the sum of its parts -- From the 'crisis of perception' to the 'systems view of life' -- Interbeing -- How can we participate appropriately in complex systems? -- The IFF World System Model -- Learning to see nature everywhere -- Being a process, and seeing in relationships -- Chapter 4 - Why nurture resilience and whole-systems health? -- Rolling back Earth Overshoot Day -- Learning to live within planetary boundaries -- What exactly are resilience and transformative resilience? -- The adaptive cycle as a dynamic map for resilience thinking -- Panarchy: a scale-linking perspective of systemic transformation Local and regional community resilience building is going global -- How can we nurture transformative resilience? -- From control and prediction to conscious participation, foresight and anticipation -- Chapter 5 - Why take a design-based approach? -- Design education enables cultural transformation -- Design is where theory and practice meet -- Design follows worldview and worldview follows design -- Ethics and design for regenerative cultures -- Aesthetics and design -- Emergence and design -- Designing for positive emergence (a case study) -- Scale-linking, salutogenic design for resilience -- The resurgence of a culture of makers: re-localizing production -- Collective visioning and design conversations change culture -- Chapter 6 - How can we learn to better design as nature? -- Ecoliteracy: Learning from living systems -- Valuing traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous wisdom -- How does life create conditions conducive to life? -- Biologically inspired innovation -- Green chemistry and material science -- Biologically inspired product design -- Biomimetic architecture -- Nature's whole system optimization informs community design -- Living the questions together creates community -- Industrial ecology and symbiosis are closing the loops -- Ecologically informed urban and regional planning -- Chapter 7 - Why are regenerative cultures rooted in cooperation? -- Redesigning agriculture for food sovereignty and subsidiarity -- Regenerative agriculture: effective responses to climate change -- Learning from and mimicking healthy ecosystems -- Redesigning economics based on ecology -- Creating circular economies -- Towards a regenerative economy -- Thriving communities and the solidarity economy -- Shifting from quantitative to qualitative growth -- Valuing the commons by cooperatively sharing the gifts of life Earth Law: the enabling constraints of collective living -- Life's collaborative lessons transform business -- Co-creating regenerative enterprises -- Collaboration and empathy as evolutionary success stories -- Activism revisited: conscious participation and collective intelligence -- We are coming back to life and this changes everything -- Learning to listen deeply -- Inner and outer resilience -- Conclusion - Regenerative cultures are about thriving together -- Acknowledgements -- References -- About the Author |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-285 |
| Beschreibung: | 287 Seiten graphische Darstellungen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1909470775 1-909470-77-5 9781909470774 978-1-909470-77-4 |