Posts Tagged "KEY VOCAB"

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…
DESIGNING FOR CHANGE

DESIGNING FOR CHANGE

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

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,…
SOCIAL RESILIENCY

SOCIAL RESILIENCY

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

RESILIENT DESIGN

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

COMPLEX SYSTEMS THINKING

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

WATER SYSTEMS

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

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…
LONG-TERM DESIGN THINKING

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,…
WICKED PROBLEMS / NO ZERO

WICKED PROBLEMS / NO ZERO

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