The crown is your staff, the trunk is your structure, the roots are your culture, & the soil is your community. A “nature-connected organisation” is a grand tree
Be open to surprise, make space for difference, do self-care: 3 things to make you and your community project thrive
We need a “sensuous knowledge”, in Minna Salami’s words, to save the planet. And there are many seeking to characterise it
Offline and online, coming out of Berlin, maybe a "School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe" is exactly what you need
4TH SECTOR, ARTISTS, NEW ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY, REGEN ECONOMIES, LEARNING, INGENUITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIESpat kaneschools, college, berlin, design, design thinking, ecodesign
Do you want the time (and space) to really imagine your possibilities, in life, activism, business? Then think ten years ahead
Alternative Editorial: Urgency Is Upon Us
Vandana Shiva, Robert Pirsig, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Einstein and others speak on the inner change that system (and climate) change requires
“Be prolific in small, free, creative acts”. Seed-forms give Bridget McKenzie inspiration for regenerative ways of life and work
You don’t want a “deadlihood” - you want an “alivelihood”. In Gandhi’s spirit of swaraj, here’s a new approach to education and work from India
"The next big thing in climate action will be many smaller things". The Climate Majority Project brings Lords and Swampies together
COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LEARNING, FUTURES, ACTIONpat kaneclimate crisis, activism, creative activism, Extinction Rebellion, Rupert read
If we only "know" through science and rationality, we deny the "sensuous knowledge" of many other parts of our world (and our bodies), says Minna Salami
Climate crisis compels us to be "epistemic agents" - which means to be in control of what and how we learn. Universities can help communities do that
Alternative Editorial: From Delos, a politics of the future engages all the senses
A/UK EDITORIAL, PLANETARIAN, BIG PICTURE, LEARNING, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANET A, TECHNOLOGY, REGEN ECONOMIES, GLOBALISTS, FUTURESpat kanedelos, world human forum
“Our lives are dictated by the hateful”. So, says Kübra Gümüşay, seize your own language, and let it forge a loving future
Rachel Donald of Planet Critical delivers a stunning, multidisciplinary take on our multiple crises
The AI Midjourney helps us imagine what mixing a traditional school bus, with a mobile school, would look like
TECHNOLOGY, LEARNING, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTpat kanedesign, ai, design thinking, social design, artificial intelligence, generative ai, urban development, urban studies, schools, education
If we want to bend tech towards people and planet, the study of soil can be our teacher, writes Greg Frey
Three video examples of ontological blues - a man on his chair, a philosophy teacher causing scandal, consumerism gone crazy
Italy's Domus magazine bring us eco-modern beauty: the forthcoming Burning Man temple, and Bologna's Museum of Girls and Boys
Doughnut economics implies that businesses radically redesign themselves. How can advertising help them?