Flourish : Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency.

Ichioka, Sarah.

Flourish : Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (182 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Origins of this book -- Moving beyond conventional sustainability -- Frames, metaphors and stories -- Shifts towards flourishing -- Tipping points -- Possibilism: evidence, uncertainty and agency -- Evidence-based problem solving -- Designing for uncertainty -- Expanding agency -- Possible new stories -- Conclusion -- Co-evolution as nature: stewardship and living systems -- Complexity and the shortcomings of the current paradigm -- A new philosophy of design -- Deeper principles of biomimicry -- Applying co-evolutionary principles -- Materials -- Cities -- Energy systems -- Legislation -- Rethinking existing frames -- Conclusion -- A longer now: deep, cyclical time and holarchic progress -- Competing visions of deep and shallow time -- Colonization and commodification of time -- The story of progress -- Rethinking time -- Being a 'good ancestor' -- Temporality and the design process -- Temporality and landscape -- National and urban policy -- Temporality and buildings -- Conclusion -- Symbiogenesis: mutualism, citizen-activism and public luxury -- The persistence of 'survival of the fittest' -- Evolving together -- Everything is interconnected -- Beyond 'the Anthropocene' -- What about human nature? -- What's wrong with competition? -- New hope for collective action? -- Symbiogenesis in the built environment -- Mobility -- Towards a regenerative design culture -- Towards regenerative governance -- Conclusion -- Planetary health: qualitative development, living metrics and flows -- Distinguishing types of growth and development -- Planetary health and doughnut economics -- Cyclical flows and the circular economy -- Globalized to localized resource use -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes.

Proposes regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings, infrastructure and communities.

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