Why Design? http://blog.lib.umn.edu/diemj011/architecture/ Thoughts on design, sustainability, and our role in the environment. en Copyright 2013 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:12:19 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Earth Day 2009 earth_day.jpg
It has been over a year since I have posted to this blog, almost two. Today is Earth Day2009...I feel it is appropriate to expand on my previous entries and discuss what I have discovered and learned about the state of our environment and humanities role in it with my education and personal experience...It is possible to survive on earth even with all we face, but we must make a global effort to make it happen.

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This week we're thinking about sustainability. Ridley and Low contest that in order to get people to adopt sustainable business and living practices we must appeal to their self-interest. This week I want you to consider whether we can get people to live sustainably by appealing to their better natures, or whether we need to provide some incentive or disincentive to create change. Or, would an appeal to both conscience and self-interest be our best bet? Why?

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The essays by Carson, Moore, and Boyle all raise questions about our need to “accommodate ourselves to this planet.? Based on the readings for this week, do you believe we need to do more to respect the “principles by which nature works? Refer to at least one of these readings in your response.

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Thoughts on the Hitt article

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Thoughts on Annie Dillard and "Heaven and Earth in Jest"

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Why did Thoreau choose the woods as the place to conduct his experiment? In your response, consider the differences between life as lived in the village and the life Thoreau lived in the woods. What becomes possible only by retreat to the woods, and why?

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Speculate on Kahn and Gershenfeld. Comment.

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In text and image, comment on the idea of techopolies to an understanding of technological order of nature.

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Find a series of images (individual or series) that somehow connect design to math. Comment.

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