The Deadline for abstracts for Pivot 2021 has been extended.
You can download the call here: https://lnkd.in/eG37-uz
Follow Lesley Ann Noel, PhD – Professor of Practice; Associate Director, Design Thinking for Social Impact
Design and Spirituality examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its implications for design. It explores how modernity and our constricted notions of progress have contributed to today’s crisis of values, and argues for a re-establishment and re-affirmation of self-transcending priorities, together with an ethos of moderation and sufficiency.
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Is the quest for inclusive design so difficult that we need so many different terms? Are new-fangled methodologies improving the situation if the aims are the same? Many different ways of promoting the process of designing inclusively is surely confusing everyone. Enter “Humanity-Centred Design”. This one is a bit different because it’s about the planet […]
Design for Humanity: People and Planet — Centre for Universal Design Australia
PORTUGUÊS – https://leonardoboff.org/2020/06/19/a-transicao-ecologica-para-uma-sociedade-biocentrada/
ESPAÑOL – http://www.servicioskoinonia.org/boff/articulo.php?num=993
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To understand the meaning of the coronavirus, we have to frame it in its proper context, not see it in isolation from the perspective of science and technique that are always necessary. The coronavirus comes from nature, against which human beings, particularly through global capitalism for centuries, have waged a systematic war against this nature and against the Earth.
