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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.
Latest posts
- The Carrier Wave metaphorThis week I’ve been going back through my writing to find material on interconnection, feedback and resilience. The Carrier Wave is one my favourite motifs in the Pattern …
- Into interconnection
This week at the Regenerative Design Lab, we’ve been working with the Living Systems Blueprint — a model for connecting high-level regenerative thinking with more tangible design decisions. … - Who you gonna call?When you can’t remember why you are doing this work?When the questions feel too large to answer?When the wind has gone out of your sails?When you don’t feel …
- They talk too much/ too littleThis came up in a facilitation call today. What do you do if the group talks too much?Or the opposite — no one contributes? The answer in both …
- The swifts are backThat searing noise tearing across the sky. The first time I’ve heard it this year. It means only one thing: the swifts are back in Bristol. They tear …
- Three conference appearances in MayI’ve never been invited to speak on the construction conference circuit before. And this year I’ve got three appearances. Something is shifting (or maybe everyone else was busy…). …
- Recipe for parasitic extractionBorrow some money. Use it buy an asset — say, a water supply company.Load the debt onto the company.Continue to extract profit. Last week I went to a …
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Field notes from our training courses and news about what we are up to at Constructivist.
Latest articles
- 200 new Pattern Books please
So this happened over Christmas – we sold out of the Pattern Book for Regenerative Design. In fact we sold … - Fellowship completeJust sharing some news of a big milestone in this work: the Commissioners have signed off the final report for …
- Big news — Cohort 6 Applications for the Regenerative Design Lab are now open
Our big news this week is that the application process is now open for Cohort 6 of the Regenerative Design …Continue reading “Big news — Cohort 6 Applications for the Regenerative Design Lab are now open”
- Field notes: trying on the Systems Change Lab for size
Last week I had the privilege of facilitating an afternoon session for the Engineers Without Borders UK Systems Change Lab …Continue reading “Field notes: trying on the Systems Change Lab for size”
- Starting to see the systemYesterday we kicked off our new introduction to regenerative design, ‘Seeing the System’. The premise is simple: seeing more clearly …
- Pattern book field notes – action learning and continuous place-based design
This week I took my copy of the Pattern Book to Cambridge. (Its second visit: in July I dropped it …Continue reading “Pattern book field notes – action learning and continuous place-based design”