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KEY VOCABULARY

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…

Posted on: May 17, 2015
By: krusej

DESIGNING FOR CHANGE

"We need systems where a failure in one component of the system doesn't bring down every other component of the…

Posted on: May 17, 2015
By: krusej

GETTING TO KNOW CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate Change Is Complex. We’ve Got Answers to Your Questions, NY Times, September, 2017 Optimism Faces Grave Realities at Climate Talks,…

Posted on: May 17, 2015
By: krusej

SOCIAL RESILIENCY

Toyo Ito, Home For all “My goal is not to reestablish the way of life that existed before the tsunami hit…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: krusej

RESILIENT DESIGN

Building anything on this sandy edge is daunting, given the fact that the annual shoreline erosion rate is about one and…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: krusej

COMPLEX SYSTEMS THINKING

Read the following article, “Everything that’s in your iPhone”. What surprised you most about this article? What are some of…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: krusej

WATER SYSTEMS

Living City | A Billion Gallons a Day BY Melanie Burford and Greg Moyer | Oct. 16, 2014 | 6:35 It is the…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: krusej

HIGASHI FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE

How are contemporary artists and designers drawing inspiration from traditional practices? Wagashi Asobi ("playful Japanese sweets") in Tokyo innovates on traditional candy…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: krusej

LONG-TERM DESIGN THINKING

A stone tablet in Aneyoshi, Japan, warns residents not to build homes below it. Hundreds of these so-called tsunami stones,…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: krusej

WICKED PROBLEMS / NO ZERO

Wicked Problems: a phrase originally used to describe a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete,…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: krusej