June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 6m
English
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Metadesign Tools Emerging from the Attainable Utopias Project
21 Metadesign Tools
The following tools were chosen from more than 90 that we developed between January 2005 and September 2008 as part of a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and based at Goldsmiths, University of London. The tools are intended to operate as an integrated set of methods and techniques that could help society to become more ecological in its ways. This is not a simple task. The discourse of ‘sustainability’ emerged from an industrial mindset that is mechanistic rather than ecological. This is unfortunate, because it also informs ...