Designing Regenerative Cultures by Wahl, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword ˜ David Orr Foreword ˜ Graham Leicester Introduction Chapter 1 — Living the Questions: Why change the narrative now?

Chapter 2 — Why choose transformative over sustaining innovation?

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?

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?

Conclusion — Regenerative cultures are about thriving together Acknowledgements References About the Author