2. John Thackara

3. Flanders Design Summit
Genk, 14 December 2013
@johnthackara
Places to intervene in the system - and how

4. 1 Development as violence
2 The Great Turning
3 Acting inside systems

5. 1] Development as violence
Energy
Money
Risk
Metabolic Rift
x 60

6. One
x 60

8. „risk manager‟

9. metabolic rift

10. “the soil nutrient
cycle and the
metabolic rift are
invisible”

11. “The cities have forgot the earth and will
rot at heart till they remember it again.”
Wendell Berry
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1
11

12. 2
The Great Turning
“the shift from the industrial growth society
to a life-sustaining civilization”

13. “the reintegration
of human endeavors
into a larger ecological
consciousness”
Thomas Berry (19142009)
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3
13

14. “A global transformation of values
has already begun”
1
4

15. ending
emerging

16. „the economy„
>
The Commons / bio-region

17. re-connecting
with the other
Céline Boyer

18. reconnecting with rivers

19. reconnecting with the soil

20. solidarity P2P sharing
economy

21. for future generations

22. democracy engaging with difference

23. The Great Turning is everywhere ...

24. New York

25. Los Angeles
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5
25

26. Nantes

27. Rotterdam

28. Seattle

29. Lisa Shipek
Infrastructure Maker
Tucson

30. Dundee

31. Pomona

32. 3
Acting inside systems
“the dance of the big and the small”

33. New ways of knowing
-to close the metabolic rift
Design thinking
- to activate our „latent willingness to change‟
New ways to meet
- for democracy, trust, difference

34. 3.1 food

35. nourishlife.org

36. action: resource allocation

37. action: social enterprise

38. action: tool design
PACHUBE

39. action: r&d
Interferenze

40. action: new ways to meet
(Giles Lane)

41. small actions
> big picture
long term
(5-10 years)

42. Warehousing
Aggregation
Distribution
Processing
Training
Accounting
Marketing
Value Chain
Technology

43. 3.2
DEMENTIA CARE

44. Question
“how will the government
look after all the
old people with dementia?”

45. Answer
It won‟t.
It can‟t.

46. Better, ask this question:
“What practical actions
would improve daily life
for people with dementia
and their carers?”

47. Alzheimer 100
data + situated & embodied understanding

48. outcome: a shared
understanding
of priorities
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
social support
respect at end of life
support for carers
public awareness
assistive technology [18%]

49. outcome: support ecology
informal
formal

50. outcome: patient journey map
Insitum.com Mexico City

51. accreditation

52. acknowledging &
accrediting

53. for discussion:
Which systems? What actions?

54. thank you
@johnthackara