Designing Regenerative Cultures

Name: Designing Regenerative Cultures
Brand: Triarchy Press
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Daniel Christian Wahl

This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large. In it, Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face and explores how we can live our way into the future. Moving from patterns of thinking and believing to our practice of education, design and community living, he systematically shows how we can stop chasing the mirage of certainty and control in a complex and unpredictable world. The book asks how can we collaborate in the creation of diverse regenerative cultures adapted to the unique biocultural conditions of place? How can we create conditions conducive to life? This book is a valuable contribution to the important discussion of the worldview and value system we need to redesign our businesses, economies, and technologies - in fact, our entire culture - so as to make them regenerative rather than destructive. Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life, coauthor of The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision. This is an excellent addition to the literature on ecological design and it will certainly form a keystone in the foundations of the new MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College, Devon. It not only contains a wealth of ideas on what Dr Wahl has termed 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' but what is probably more important, it provides some stimulating new ways of looking at persistent problems in our contemporary culture and hence opens up new ways of thinking and acting in the future. Seaton Baxter OBE, Professor in Ecological Design Thinking, Schumacher College, UK See more

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Weight: 368g
Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
Publication Date: 03 May 2016
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781909470774

About Daniel Christian Wahl

Daniel Christian Wahl was born in Munich in 1971 and grew up in Germany. By the time he was 28 he had travelled in 35 different countries on six continents. His early career was as a marine biologist and scuba diving instructor before he decided to focus on sustainability and sustainable communities in 1998. Originally trained as a biologist and zoologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California Santa Cruz Daniel also holds an MSc in Holistic Science (Schumacher College 2002) and a PhD in Natural Design (University of Dundee 2006). Daniel has taught capacity building workshops on a wide range of sustainability issues to local authorities and businesses through the UN-affiliated training centre CIFAL Scotland. Among his consultancy clients have been the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) the British Government's UK Foresight (with Decision Integrity Ltd.) LEAD International CLEAR Village and companies like Camper Ecover (with Forum for the Future) Lush and the tourism innovation cluster Balears.t as well as various universities and charities. He was the director of Findhorn College between 2007 and 2010 during which time he helped to create the MSc in Sustainable Community Design (Heriott-Watt University) co-founded the `Learning Partnership for Creative Sustainability' and co-organized two international Bioneers conferences in Holland and Findhorn. Daniel has been a member of Gaia Education (since 2007) and the International Futures Forum (since 2009). He is also a fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce) and the Findhorn Foundation Fellowship. Daniel has worked closely with Gaia Education since 2006 when he participated in the first training of trainers for the `Ecovillage Design Education' (EDE) programme. He has taught EDE courses in Scotland Thailand and Spain. He is a co-author of all four dimensions (social ecological economic worldview) of the curriculum for Gaia Education's online course in `Design for Sustainability' (GEDS) and is co-developing a new programme in `Bioregional Design Education' (BDE) for Gaia Education. He also collaborates with the research working-group of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). Daniel lives on Majorca and works locally and internationally as a consultant educator and activist. In 2012 he co-founded `Biomimicry Iberia' and in 2015 co-organized the first practitioners camp of the `European Biomimicry Alliance' (EBA) on Majorca. He collaborates with the Masters of Design and Innovation at the IED (European Institute of Design) in Madrid has taught at Elisava Design School in Barcelona and co-developed the S.M.A.R.T. UIB project of the Universidad de las Islas Baleares (Sustainable Multi-stakeholder Applied Regenerative Transformative) where he is helping to develop a series of programmes in transformative innovation. Daniel has published numerous articles and academic papers and collaborated with a number of documentary film projects. Designing Regenerative Cultures is his first book.