This does strike me as a design fro resilience. It is at the very least, more of a design for resilience than we have today. I think that the key word of today’s economy is consumer convenience. If a product doesn’t add some element of convenience for the consumer, it is unlikely to sell, and therefore unlikely to be produced. This convenience frequently comes at the environmental costs of disposability and rapidity. While we tend not to consider where our products come from, if we did we would find that their raw materials come from all around the world. These raw materials are shipped to manufacturing facilities where they are assembled and shipped again, possibly back to the place the raw materials come from. One thing we can definitely work on is localization of manufacturing facilities. I think if we find a way to ban products that exist solely for their convenience, we will drastically improve our sustainability as a society. One quick example of this is paper and plastic disposable bags, which can probably be replaced by reusable canvas bags in 95% of cases.
To me, the document is visually stimulating, but that design doesn’t help with its purpose. I find that the design tends to have too much going on in these first few pages. In other words, the design lacks clarity of purpose. This would be much stronger if each section really focused on its purpose, rather than introducing several different sections/distractions for the reader. That being said, the design/focus becomes much clearer once you move past the first few pages.
