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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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- Spotting people spotting kingfishersMy workshop today is in an office along the same river catchment as the one I live on, so my commute takes me deep into the Frome valley. …
- Repair as an ambition loopIn my previous post I wrote about how United Repair Centre are creating the infrastructure that is renewing repair in the fashion sector. I think their work is …
- Building repair infrastructureHere are my working thoughts on United Repair Centre, one of the organisations I met at the Future Observatory event The New London Commons: Circular Hubs for Fashion …
- Steel reuse: writing a new blue bookStructural steel reuse is on the rise, as this month’s Structural Engineer articles show. But what might be seen as a material innovation is actually a shift in …
- Set design for a training roomIf your brief is to design the set for a theatre piece set in a construction industry training room, then make sure it includes the following: White boards. …
- Fuelling the Regenerative Design Lab
This March we are holding the Spring Residential workshops for Cohort 6 and Cohort 7 of the Regenerative Design Lab. Appropriately I was down at Hazel Hill Wood … - A flow for thinking about regenerative infrastructureA final post this week to draw together the long form posts into a simple flow. Across these posts I’ve explored how infrastructure shapes the metabolism of the …
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News and highlights
Field notes from our training courses and news about what we are up to at Constructivist.
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- 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”