Designing Regenerative Cultures
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 this remarkable book, Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face, and he 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, co-author 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, Prof. in Ecological Design Thinking, Schumacher College, UK [Subject: Systems Thinking, Education, Social Anthropology, Environmentalism, Ecology, Regenerative Culture, Sociology]
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Designing Regenerative Cultures
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 this remarkable book, Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face, and he 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, co-author 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, Prof. in Ecological Design Thinking, Schumacher College, UK [Subject: Systems Thinking, Education, Social Anthropology, Environmentalism, Ecology, Regenerative Culture, Sociology]
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Designing Regenerative Cultures

Designing Regenerative Cultures

by Daniel Christian Wahl
Designing Regenerative Cultures

Designing Regenerative Cultures

by Daniel Christian Wahl

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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 this remarkable book, Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face, and he 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, co-author 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, Prof. in Ecological Design Thinking, Schumacher College, UK [Subject: Systems Thinking, Education, Social Anthropology, Environmentalism, Ecology, Regenerative Culture, Sociology]

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781909470774
Publisher: Triarchy Press Ltd
Publication date: 05/31/2016
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 228,499
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 12.00(h) x 3.60(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword David Orr 11

Foreword Graham Leicester 13

Introduction 15

Chapter 1 Living the Questions: Why change the narrative now? 19

Questioning dangerous ideologies 25

Facing complexity means befriending uncertainty and ambiguity 28

Caring for the Earth is caring for ourselves and our community 31

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world 33

The 'why' will guide the 'what' and the 'how' 36

Spirituality, soul and solitude in nature 38

Sustainability as a learning journey: pilgrims and apprentices 40

Sustainability is not enough; we need regenerative cultures 43

Chapter 2 Why choose transformative over sustaining innovation? 49

The Three Horizons of innovation and culture change 53

Evaluating disruptive innovation in the age of transition 57

Transformative innovation is about deep questioning 60

Sensitivity to scale, uniqueness of place and local culture 62

The transformative power of social innovation 64

Collaborative consumption and peer-to-peer collaboration 66

Facilitating systems innovation and culture change 67

Chapter 3 Why do we need to think and act more systemically? 73

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing 76

The whole is more than the sum of its parts 79

From the 'crisis of perception' to the 'systems view of life' 81

Interbeing 85

How can we participate appropriately in complex systems? 87

The IFF World System Model 89

Learning to see nature everywhere 92

Being a process, and seeing in relationships 94

Chapter 4 Why nurture resilience and whole-systems health? 97

Rolling back Earth Overshoot Day 99

Learning to live within planetary boundaries 101

What exactly are resilience and transformative resilience? 104

The adaptive cycle as a dynamic map for resilience thinking 107

Panarchy: a scale-linking perspective of systemic transformation 109

Local and regional community resilience building is going global 111

How can we nurture transformative resilience? 115

From control and prediction to conscious participation, foresight and anticipation 119

Chapter 5 Why take a design-based approach? 123

Design education enables cultural transformation 124

Design is where theory and practice meet 129

Design follows worldview and worldview follows design 131

Ethics and design for regenerative cultures 132

Aesthetics and design 134

Emergence and design 136

Designing for positive emergence (a case study) 138

Scale-linking, salutogenic design for resilience 142

The resurgence of a culture of makers: re-localizing production 144

Collective visioning and design conversations change culture 147

Chapter 6 How can we learn to better design as nature? 151

Ecoliteracy: Learning from living systems 154

Valuing traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous wisdom 157

How does life create conditions conducive to life? 163

Biologically inspired innovation 166

Green chemistry and material science 168

Biologically inspired product design 171

Biomimetic architecture 175

Nature's whole system optimization informs community design 178

Living the questions together creates community 180

Industrial ecology and symbiosis are closing the loops 183

Ecologically informed urban and regional planning 187

Chapter 7 Why are regenerative cultures rooted in cooperation? 191

Redesigning agriculture for food sovereignty and subsidiarity 196

Regenerative agriculture: effective responses to climate change 199

Learning from and mimicking healthy ecosystems 203

Redesigning economics based on ecology 209

Creating circular economies 214

Towards a regenerative economy 218

Thriving communities and the solidarity economy 221

Shifting from quantitative to qualitative growth 224

Valuing the commons by cooperatively sharing the gifts of life 226

Earth Law: the enabling constraints of collective living 229

Life's collaborative lessons transform business 231

Co-creating regenerative enterprises 236

Collaboration and empathy as evolutionary success stories 240

Activism revisited: conscious participation and collective intelligence 246

We are coming back to life and this changes everything 252

Learning to listen deeply 255

Inner and outer resilience 259

Conclusion - Regenerative cultures are about thriving together 263

Acknowledgements 271

References 275

About the Author 286

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