At the core of developing sustainable design is to learn a basic set of values and a deep understanding that everything is connected. Sustainable design or meta design processes use’s tool that is wide and not narrowed. The concept that everything is connected is far from new; in Buddhism..read more..

Ezio Manzini is possibly the world’s leading expert on sustainable design, with a focus on scenario building toward solution’s all-embracing social and environmental quality. Read more..

Permaculture In the mid-seventies, two Aussies introduced a new green term to environmentalism, living in the arid Australian (Tasmania) climate. They published in 1978 their first book “Permaculture One” and a year later “Permaculture Two.”  Bill Mollison grew up in Tasmania, and as he writes in the book’s introduction to Permaculture:  “everything we needed we [...]

Social capital related to human well-being but on a societal rather than individual level (human capital describe well-being on an individual level). It consists of the social networks that support an efficient, cohesive society and facilitate social and intellectual interactions among its members. Read more..

Stuart Walker is Professor of Sustainable Design and Co-Director of the Imagination Lancaster design research lab at Lancaster University. His research focuses on design for sustainability; product aesthetics and substance; practice-based design diagnoses and product design that verbalize human values and impression of spirituality. Read more..

A Systematic approach to design is a term used to describe a set of activities, which control overall implementation and integration of a complex set of interacting components or systems to meet the needs of all users. Read more..