KEY VOCABULARY

  • Posted on: May 17, 2015
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In Sustainable Systems there are four key themes: AIR/CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER, MATERIALS, and ENERGY

In relation to these four themes, we explore the following key vocabulary and phrases:

OVERALL:

1) Designing for ever-changing conditions

2) Complex systems thinking

3) Intentional Observation/ Observing Change

4) Resiliency as creativity

WATER:

5) Storm Surge

6) Drought

7) Coastal vulnerability

MATERIALS:

8) No Zero (degrees of impact)

9) Long Life Design

10) Design for Deep Time

11) Anthropocene

AIR/CLIMATE CHANGE:

12) Wicked Problems

13) Sixth Extinction

14) Fifth Season

15)  Social Resilience

16) Designing for the non-human

ENERGY:

17) Designing for Limits

 

 

Jamie Kruse is an artist, designer and part-time faculty at Parsons School for Design. In 2005 she co-founded smudge, (smudgestudio.org) with Elizabeth Ellsworth, based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of Friends of the Pleistocene: fopnews.wordpress.com.

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