Ecological Design Collective | Life-centered design | Activity https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/life-centered-design/ Activity feed for the group, Life-centered design. Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:08:06 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 72cd84541ede1fe5b8883c982a6c4eed Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: “That plantain in the sidewalk: that’s also what it does […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6156/ Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:10:53 -0400 “That plantain in the sidewalk: that’s also what it does for the skin, it’s trying to repair that crack.” Lessons from herbalist and artist @Lyss Alyssa Dennis on the medicine of plants and how to begin to think and work between “the wounds of the earth, the wounds of the body.”

]]> 0 21a3ea4cc30c76bcc27b5464f8a5ad8c Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: "From a coyote’s-eye view, you could see what the trees […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6052/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:01:49 -0400 “From a coyote’s-eye view, you could see what the trees were up to: Growth, failure, decay and the drip of acid water through the gravel were mixing a dirt out of the detritus. This hideous forest, I suddenly realized, was there to repair the damage done, and not at our bidding. Its intent was not to look good. Its intent was to stay alive, year…Read more

]]> 0 e046b3fd63b8df66294f4a8fc00ca754 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: “Recognizing how animals inhabit our cities is the first […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5835/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:28:19 -0400 “Recognizing how animals inhabit our cities is the first step toward reducing the harm these spaces create for animals, like the risk that architectural glass poses to birds.”

Great to see this piece about the course you also shared with us @rfadok…

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theconversation.com

This anthropology course looks at building design from the standpoint of different species

Humans aren’t the only species to consider when constructing new buildings. This course teaches students to take animals into account as well.

]]> 2 2caeacfc736efeb695f5a5813ddfdee0 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Life-centered design: Thought folks in this group might like this https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4091/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:37:51 -0500 Thought folks in this group might like this

peterkindfieldphd.substack.com

If I Had a Hammer? Exploring Structure and Function

Coming Back to Nature: Science-Rich Activities for Children and Their Adults

]]> 0 3a3f14d6b835de4032f1ae8295b5b6eb Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: “We must begin to come to terms with the reality that we […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3516/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 12:54:04 -0500 “We must begin to come to terms with the reality that we can’t save the coastline as it currently exists. We need to prioritize natural adaptation, but planned abandonment should be considered as well. Rather than build ever higher walls and rip rap monuments, we should be developing strategies for moving the human footprint away from the…

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cbf.org

Let's Choose Nature Over Higher Flood Walls

How we adapt our built infrastructure in the Chesapeake Bay region to the challenge of sea level rise needs to be at the forefront of climate change discussions.

]]> 0 076215c20627661f4fe377a183adfb7f Marie-Anne Bernasconi posted an update in the group Life-centered design: Hi there! I’m Marie-Anne, a facilitator helping cities and […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2205/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:11:26 -0400 Hi there! I’m Marie-Anne, a facilitator helping cities and companies regenerate humans and natural ecosystems.

This morning I facilitated a workshop for a French company manufacturing public lighting. They want their products to help living beings thrive. To design the workshop, I was inspired by The Life-Centered Design Guide.

Here is the design…

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marieannebernasconi.notion.site

Life-centered design creativity workshop

By Marie-Anne Bernasconi - helping cities and companies regenerate human and natural ecosystems

]]> 1 cc7480477151fb175c94d13129eecb50 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: https://www.designboom.com/design/zena-holloway-rootfull-coll […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1936/ Wed, 24 May 2023 01:26:30 -0400 https://www.designboom.com/design/zena-holloway-rootfull-collection-london-design-festival-10-04-2022/

designboom.com

zena holloway launches a collection of bio-designs grown entirely from grass root

 

]]> 2 9e32b35a6f814355ed20dae2d2c8bd24 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: “Yes, some of us are called to be bombastic brief […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1867/ Wed, 10 May 2023 21:41:08 -0400 “Yes, some of us are called to be bombastic brief mushrooms on the surface of the world, but so much more is happening in the darkness of rich soil. We can impact the surface, the forest, the health of the whole world with our earnest organic underground labor. Learn from what moves under the earth.”

Love this meditation by adrienne maree…

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truthout.org

Four Insights for Radical Organizing From the Mysterious World of Mushrooms

Let’s do mycelial organizing inspired by the underground fungal networks that turn waste and toxicity into new life.

]]> 0 bf1865176e89052fa1daf1dca99ba1ee Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: “Astri Tonoian, a Norwegian artist, spent months making […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1797/ Mon, 01 May 2023 00:06:12 -0400 “Astri Tonoian, a Norwegian artist, spent months making the sculpture, based on photos of the animal. In a phone interview on Sunday, she said that she wanted to create a “historic document about the case” and the surrounding controversy that speaks to “humans’ ability to face unknown.”

“We have to practice coexisting” with people and wildlife,…

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nytimes.com

Freya, the Walrus Killed by Norwegian Officials, Is Immortalized as a Sculpture

The bronze sculpture depicts the walrus on her side and should remind onlookers about the importance of coexisting, the artist said.

]]> 0 23ef2628ca716d33a7090bcba568a8aa Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1565/ Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:27:55 -0400 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/barcelona-football-camp-nou-stadium-animal-inhabitants-wildlife

theguardian.com

The crowd goes wild: FC Barcelona reveals Camp Nou stadium’s animal inhabitants

Swifts, swallows, bats and geckos all enjoy a ‘coexistence of mutual respect’ on the football stands, wildlife census shows

]]> 0 c394b611925330d82636d18aaa5ae1b4 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Life-centered design: "Urban cycling moves at a human scale, at speeds we […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1273/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:29:42 -0500

“Urban cycling moves at a human scale, at speeds we evolved to deal with, so people cycling have time to react to one another, and because they are not trapped in metal cages they are visible to other people cycling and can respond to body languages and small changes in speed or direction to determine who goes first”

Having biked around…

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]]> 1 0d674d3d31bcbf12634d8da0ea3bfee0 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: A reminder for life-centered design. Other creatures need […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1264/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:48:52 -0500 A reminder for life-centered design. Other creatures need us to let the darkness be, and our our animal being demands the same.

“Alone among the major crises confronting the planet today — climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemics — the pollution caused by artificial lighting has a relatively easy solution: You can just turn the light…

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nytimes.com

A Manifesto for Loving the Darkness, and Not Metaphorically

Light pollution is disruptive to many species, from corals to bats to the humans who put up all those lights. “The Darkness Manifesto” urges us to reconsider our drive to dispel the dark.

]]> 0 e63a85a8ab4d12acb1a806bc289e43ac Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: A beautiful meditation on tree being, especially that […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/983/ Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:22:19 -0500 A beautiful meditation on tree being, especially that of ancient trees or “elderflora.” So much to think on here, e.g. “A gymnosperm doesn’t so much live long as die longer—or, live longer through dying. The interior dead wood—the heartwood—performs vital functions, mechanically and structurally. In comparison, the thin living outer layer is…

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nautil.us

The Ancient Wisdom Stored in Trees

What very old trees can teach us about life, death, and time.

]]> 1 94ecb8d200bd722c559bf65f54bb7b95 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: Walking in the woods today, witnessing many lives aging […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/782/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:14:15 -0500 Walking in the woods today, witnessing many lives aging in time, I found myself thinking that life centered design can’t just be a matter of the species we pay attention to, whether humans alone or non-human others; it’s also the course of life itself, the growing and aging, the flourishing and decay, design that can take seriously…Read more

]]> 0 388213aa0f8ca19ff334bbd5e00e41bc Cristina Murphy posted an update in the group Life-centered design: Happening now!  https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/670/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:39:52 -0500 Happening now! 

]]> 0 35d2d9fc4542dc65cf757867219e5bbf Josh Rubin posted an update in the group Life-centered design: One thing I find myself wondering: What is the place of […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/128/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:48:45 -0400 One thing I find myself wondering: What is the place of the virtual (or digital) in life-centered design? Is it a place of experimentation, where life can be explored without stakes? Is it life-filled, in itself? A place where life happens? An extension of life, centered elsewhere? A space of dreams, nightmares, fantasies, where projections…

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]]> 1 38c9c67559b5c5711574c5e0a07a3cfa Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Life-centered design: Hi all, I’m writing from the edge of a river in Virginia […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/127/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:35:39 -0400 Hi all, I’m writing from the edge of a river in Virginia (the Rivanna river) while doing one of the things that I enjoy most, which is kayaking, for, as it happens, I find myself thinking even here about life-centered design!

Because one of the things that strikes me most about this landscape is the relationship between movement and stillness.…

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]]> 0 afd1ebcb6c98bf18595155613e69de2a Eesha posted an update in the group Life-centered design: I want to start off by sharing one of my early musings […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/105/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 15:43:39 -0400 I want to start off by sharing one of my early musings about design that centered ‘life’. I was using the Biomimicry process while working towards food access in Baltimore. Here are the design principles we created in early 2020, called “life-centered design”

]]> 3 92a94c8ddd31ff1ec13cf6ef87501a26 Estela Duhart Benavides posted an update in the group Life-centered design: We are making progress with the Life-centered principles […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/72/ Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:32:06 -0400 We are making progress with the Life-centered principles and I’m super excited about that. Maybe we can share them here and get thoughts from other members. What do you think @eesha

]]> 1 0acf464c356e56070184ebdd91cec180 Eesha started the discussion Centering whom/what exactly? in the forum Life Centered Design https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/life-centered-design/forum/discussion/centering-whom-what-exactly/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:49:21 -0400 Centering whom/what exactly?

I have been thinking deeply about “human”, “non-human”, “more-than-human” and “non-user” personas and how they all interact with each other. What do we mean when we say we design for and with life?

]]> 066d21068940a4f1f7e99a6e88d19898 Eesha posted an update in the group Life-centered design: A more-than-human manifesto […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/42/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:32:43 -0400 A more-than-human manifesto by Superflux!
http://superflux.in/index.php/a-more-than-human-manifesto/#

superflux.in

A More Than Human Manifesto - Superflux

Anab Jain and Jon Ardern were invited to develop a manifesto for the Dezeen 15 digital festival, bringing together fifteen creatives across various disciplines to propose ideas that can change the world over the next fifteen years. Discussing the studio’s … Continue reading

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