Day 9 Design for positive social change
- A sense of place – bioregions and social zoning, evaluating and valuing our heritage
- The client and the brief – working with other people to get more done - project design and management
- Design project – course design project selection and brief - summary of design process
Lunch
- Pattern - edge, how to use it - niche as an edge
- Teamwork observed – diversity of “strengths” and “weaknesses” of individuals
- Patterns of Association - natural strengths and weaknesses of human group sizes
Day 10 Settlements and communities
- Settlements: patterns, scales and sizes Village life – patterns of a settled society - basic human needs - designing for community needs - questions and issues of scale
- “Wealth” and Right Livelihood - what is wealth?- concept of right livelihood - hints and tips "from the front line" - creating linkages, beneficial relationship
Lunch
- Design projects – tutorial
- Communal organisation – “patterns of governance” - tribal societies - the city and civilisation
- Alternative nations - complex societies, cultural evolutions
- Useful patterns of organisation and business - Enterprise Facilitation (Sirolli), growth and scale (Greiner), Chaordic organisation