John Thackara

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Places to intervene in the system - and how

Flanders Design SummitGenk, 14 December 2013

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1 Development as violence2 The Great Turning3 Acting inside systems

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1] Development as violence

EnergyMoneyRiskMetabolic Rift

One x 60

‘risk manager’

metabolic rift

“the soil nutrient cycle and the metabolic rift are invisible”

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“The cities have forgot the earth and will rot at heart till they remember it again.”

Wendell Berry

2 The Great Turning

“the shift from the industrial growth society

to a life-sustaining civilization”

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“the reintegrationof human endeavors into a larger ecological consciousness”

Thomas Berry (1914-2009)

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“A global transformation of values has already begun”

ending emerging

‘the economy‘ > The Commons / bio-region

Céline Boyer

re-connecting with the other

reconnecting with rivers

reconnecting with the soil

solidarity P2P sharing economy

for future generations

democracy - engaging with difference

The Great Turning is everywhere ...

New York

2525

Los Angeles

Nantes

Rotterdam

Seattle

Lisa ShipekInfrastructure Maker

Tucson

Dundee

Pomona

3Acting inside systems

“the dance of the big and the small”

New ways of knowing -to close the metabolic rift

Design thinking - to activate our ‘latent willingness to change’

New ways to meet - for democracy, trust, difference

3.1 food

nourishlife.org

action: resource allocation

action: social enterprise

action: tool design

PACHUBE

action: r&d

Interferenze

action: new ways to meet (Giles Lane)

long term(5-10 years)

small actions> big picture

Warehousing

Aggregation

Distribution

Processing

Training

Accounting

Marketing

Value Chain

Technology

3.2DEMENTIA CARE

Question

“how will the government look after all the old people with dementia?”

Answer

It won’t.It can’t.

Better, ask this question:

“What practical actionswould improve daily life for people with dementiaand their carers?”

Alzheimer 100

data + situated & embodied understanding

outcome: a shared understandingof priorities

1. social support 2. respect at end of life 3. support for carers 4. public awareness5. assistive technology [18%]

informal formal

outcome: support ecology

outcome: patient journey map

Insitum.com Mexico City

accreditation

acknowledging & accrediting

for discussion:

Which systems? What actions?

@johnthackara

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