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The Pattern Book for Regenerative Design
A practice guide for engineers (and other humans)
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Oliver’s daily(ish) blog on creativity, regenerative design and practical philosophy drawn from across my teaching, writing and collaborations. Sign up for Oliver’s weekly digest by clicking here and choosing the appropriate button.
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- ThrivingThe Pattern Book uses ‘thriving’ as a shorthand for the goal of regenerative design. The full goal is more precise: for humans and the living world to survive, …
- Systems SurveyThis motif combines the Living Systems Blueprint with a civil engineering perspective to create six questions for a site investigation that can reveal the underlying system characteristics. User …
- Carrier WaveIn radio communications, a carrier wave is a signal that carries another signal. The carrier wave is the disturbance in the electromagnetic spectrum that travels out across the …
- Living WorldThe Pattern Book uses the phrase ‘living world’ instead of nature. Nature tends to convey something outside — rural, picturesque and separate from us. Living World describes something …
- Short-Term Design from AnywhereWhat might a design process might look like if its goal were the opposite of enabling humans and the living world to survive, thrive and co-evolve? The Pattern …
- BeaversWhenever we ask the question, “What if every time we built something, the world got better?” — my mind jumps to beavers. Beavers often catch the imagination of …
- Field notes: Book launch pattern sequence
This evening we held the London launch for the Pattern Book, hosted by our friends at Elliott Wood in the Society Building. I often describe the Pattern Book …Continue reading “Field notes: Book launch pattern sequence”
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Field notes from our training courses and news about what we are up to at Constructivist.
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- Field notes: Book launch pattern sequenceThis evening we held the London launch for the Pattern Book, hosted by our friends at Elliott Wood in the …
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- Field Notes — The Agora
This week I facilitated the final sessions in our Critical Thinking series for the Useful Simple Trust. The programme takes … - Field notes: operating the Decision Engine
I’ve written lots of posts this week on decision-making, and that’s because I have run three rounds of The Decision …Continue reading “Field notes: operating the Decision Engine”
- Sleep, subconscious and napping at work.
This week we ran an online session in our Critical Thinking series exploring a topic not usually found in professional training … - From Ideas to Evidence — testing early concepts in structural design
This week marked the final session in our Introduction to Conceptual Design for Structural Engineers series, where we moved from generating ideas …Continue reading “From Ideas to Evidence — testing early concepts in structural design”
- The Map Room – mapping systems, horizons, and change
This week we ran The Map Room, the second workshop in our Critical Thinking for Engineers (and Other Humans) programme. If the …Continue reading “The Map Room – mapping systems, horizons, and change”