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PatternDynamics: Following The Way Nature Organizes Itself to Deal with Complexity

December 15, 2020December 27, 2013 by David MacLeod

What is unique about PatternDynamics is that it combines the patterns of nature with the power of language, to produce a sustainability pattern language.

Categories Society Tags pattern language, permaculture, systems thinking Leave a comment

Leon Krier: Architecture in the Age of Austerity

December 15, 2020November 22, 2013 by Øyvind Holmstad

This lecture by Leon Krier is one of the most informative I’ve ever watched on the field of architecture, each minute is a flash of insight.

Categories Society Tags Modernism, pattern language, traditional architecture Leave a comment

Creating buildings and environments that support life

December 15, 2020October 30, 2013 by James Alexander Arnfinsen

Why is it that so much of what has been built for the last 100 years seem to go against what we have consciously and unconsciously learned throughout our human history (not to mention our almost 2 million years of evolution!)

Categories Society Tags Christopher Alexander, pattern language, urban environments Leave a comment

The Ancient Taberna in a Future World

December 15, 2020September 17, 2013 by Øyvind Holmstad

No, the Trajan Market was not at all like today’s ’supermarkets’ — it was a superb market!

Categories Society Tags pattern language, permaculture design, relocalization Leave a comment

Trojan Horses, Recipes, and Permaculture

December 15, 2020September 5, 2013 by Toby Hemenway

What was it that made Transition so comprehensible, exciting, and respectable, while permaculture seemed diffuse, slow-growing, and smelling a bit of patchouli oil?

Categories Act: Inspiration, Environment Tags pattern language, permaculture, systems design, Transition movement 1 Comment

The commoning of patterns and the patterns of commoning: A short sketch

December 15, 2020May 29, 2013 by Franz Nahrada

There are a thousand ways of doing things wrong – and only a few ways of doing things right.

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