Tag: interconnection

Where we make but also where we take

This has become one of my catchphrases in regenerative design*. To think of design as being for ‘where we make but also where we take’. The role of…

Remote treehouse design

Sometimes humour serves best to highlight the ridiculousness of a situation.  In my last few posts I’ve been exploring the relationship between designers and the ecosystem they draw…

Losing edge (on the disadvantages of scale)

In my last few posts I’ve been exploring the relationship between the scale of design team and the connection with the places they are working with. Today I’ll…

Stuffed crust geometry

At some point in my childhood, Pizza Hut introduced the stuffed crust pizza. The idea was simple: stuff the crust with a ring of gooey cheese. It was…

Seeing the latent potential

As Rob Hopkins points out in his wonderful book From What Is to What If, the climate crisis is, at its core, a crisis of the imagination. If…

From no run to park run

A few days ago, Parkrun turned 20 years old. What started as a simple community gathering, launched by Paul Sinton-Hewitt on October 2nd, 2004, has grown into a…

340-degree vision

I read on a fact sheet that guinea pigs have 340-degree vision. On a horizontal plane they can see almost all around. Imagine! Their only blind spots are…

How much does your website weigh?

It’s a funny question. How much does my website weigh? Is it heavy? It is light? I have no way of knowing.  But I like the question, because…