Ecological Design Collective | Michael Degani | Activity https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/members/mike/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Degani. Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:23:12 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 33ce85005e588aaf4ee8be7ec6bc53f0 Michael Degani replied to the discussion What the hell man in the forum Green Building https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/what-the-hell-man/#post-14393 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:51:22 -0500 Reply to What the hell man

“Peirce’s definition of virtuality rests, in large measure, on the notion of ‘virtus’ (originally a kind of manly virtue, closely related to words like virile, and so an easy target for critical theory), and this word can be reinterpreted in many ways. For example, if we pair this term with Aristotle’s (2001a) typology of four causes…

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]]> 3af1d198542da83d845b0ddb277312ac Michael Degani started the discussion What the hell man in the forum Green Building https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/what-the-hell-man/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:48:18 -0500 What the hell man

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-future-of-engineerings_stampedconcrete-woodlookconcrete-artandengineering-ugcPost-7416857121100574720-2aTc

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#stampedconcrete #woodlookconcrete #artandengineering #designinnovation #concretedesign #architecturaldetails #materialmagic #smartsurfaces #constructionart #durabledesign | The Future of Engineering

🪵✨ When Concrete Imitates Wood Creating wooden patterns on cement is where art meets engineering. While the concrete is still wet, it’s carefully leveled and pressed with textured molds that replicate natural wood grain. Skilled hands add finishing touches—knots, lines, … Continue reading

]]> 3d0c442d83082cffda2ba3755f61201e Michael Degani: Want to wish a happy birthday to our keystone curator https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7760/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:55:08 -0500 Want to wish a happy birthday to our keystone curator @anand. Not just an irrepressible fount of energy and momentum for us here at the EDC but a brilliant anthropologist whose work is ecological design in motion, and–maybe most importantly for me–a great friend. Here’s to another trip around the sun! https://youtu.be/LWx6csgGkg4?si=68ciCIi4aAZliwju

]]> 0 b44b2950ea0f86cf99f0e1da94e5fef0 Michael Degani posted an update: hey what a great holiday card I got from my friends at […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7759/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:40:02 -0500 hey what a great holiday card I got from my friends at the EDC! Thanks y’all.

]]> 0 b87223bb02e6c270963aefe624351c05 Michael Degani posted an update: "Secured by Design (SBD) is the official police […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7629/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:59:05 -0500 “Secured by Design (SBD) is the official police security initiative that is owned by the UK Police Service with the specific aim to reduce crime and help people live more safely. We seek to improve the physical security of buildings using products, such as doors, windows, locks and walling systems that meet SBD security requirements.…

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In the House of Lords I called attention to the negative and outsize influence of the police over architecture and urban design, and cited a quote from architect Russell Curtis which effectively… | Phineas Harper | 18 comments

In the House of Lords I called attention to the negative and outsize influence of the police over architecture and urban design, and cited a quote from architect Russell Curtis which effectively distills the harm that the police's Secured By … Continue reading

]]> 0 654e6204b524db9aa82f3eb45152cf76 Michael Degani posted an update: Way back when I wrote about "aircrete" in […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7622/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:22:48 -0500 Way back when I wrote about “aircrete” in Tanzania–here is another, bigger bid to get some air into structures!

“The bubbles are
an efficient method of reducing the embodied carbon of concrete
slabs. They form voids that eliminate unnecessary concrete in areas of
low stress, all without compromising strength. They also reduce
dead…

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Last month, photographer Salina Kassam documented the ongoing construction of CAMH’s Temerty Discovery Centre in Toronto — and what she captured will one day be hidden from view: recycled plastic… | KPMB Architects

Last month, photographer Salina Kassam documented the ongoing construction of CAMH’s Temerty Discovery Centre in Toronto — and what she captured will one day be hidden from view: recycled plastic bubbles encased in rebar. The bubbles are an efficient method of reducing the embodied carbon of concrete slabs. They form voids that eliminate unnecessary concrete in areas … Continue reading

]]> 0 42041e56e11a3fc62ce4a2d50743b7ee Michael Degani started the discussion French windows in the forum Green Building https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/french-windows/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:54:19 -0400 French windows

I always come back to Jim and always see something new. I’ve been reading up on passive solar heating and south-facing windows as a measure of reduced space heating–and the unintended consequences of that measure–only to stumble on James Scott’s discussion in Two Cheers for Anarchism of what was arguably an inverted and analogous problem…

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]]> d011cf429bec6a6b8eeb91961f79eeb0 Michael Degani posted an update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbP2DgDp890 https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7436/ Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:22:01 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbP2DgDp890

]]> 0 14bde65ecbfc689e20e3b5a71fbdecf6 Michael Degani posted an update: The second Global Tipping Points Report finds […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7407/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:20:41 -0400 The second Global Tipping Points Report finds that warm-water coral
reefs – on which nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine
life depend – are now passing their tipping point. Widespread dieback is
occurring, and unless global warming is reversed, extensive reefs as we
know them will be lost. However, small refuges may survive…

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World reaches first climate tipping point – widespread mortality of coral reefs

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is now underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, released today by the University of Exeter and international partners including the Stockholm Resilience Centre, underlines … Continue reading

]]> 0 6bf8d37a1e651cae11451bb71b93945a Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/the-future-is-fungi-myce […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7368/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:21:19 -0400 https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/the-future-is-fungi-mycelium-and-architecture/

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The Future is...Fungi? - Metropolis

Mycelium composites seem to be sprouting up everywhere lately—but are these biobased materials the future of sustainable design?

]]> 0 f93d6e0914808daa24224a9a9de6c73b Michael Degani posted an update: Leading candidate for University of Cambridge Chancellor […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7065/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:09:34 -0400 Leading candidate for University of Cambridge Chancellor a fossil fuels guy

https://chancellorletter.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/press-coverage/

]]> 0 093f7573fc084d2d60189412d77a47d8 Michael Degani posted an update: Overseeing EDC platform: being in the habit of going on […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6976/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:05:50 -0400 Overseeing EDC platform: being in the habit of going on once a day, and just seeing. Did someone create a fake group? Is there content where it shouldn’t be.
Usage patterns: Do we continue to use coco-analytics that more privacy-centric and more accurate. Follow up with Anand about that.
Managing necessary maintenance and updates on an ongoing…

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]]> 0 a9f7745c028915c8790c29a4874873ff Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: The Architecture of Vector Control Can bricks be made […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6969/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 05:24:45 -0400 The Architecture of Vector Control

Can bricks be made to breathe?

https://limn.press/article/the-architecture-of-vector-control/

]]> 0 98702ec8292c2b537cade11a21e2276d Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: For @anand: logging yet another dining room table […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6932/ Tue, 20 May 2025 11:52:03 -0400 For @anand: logging yet another dining room table story (23:42)…

https://youtu.be/WaJPLeYaZZA?si=y0-qU5ysXSK36Ql_&t=1420

]]> 0 1ae2e17bd9b26cd62413fc82555386ce Michael Degani posted an update: interesting reflections on the failure of the […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6755/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:31:56 -0500 interesting reflections on the failure of the green revolution, the discourse of “ecological civilization,” and experiments in commons management in China

https://thetricontinental.org/wenhua-zongheng-2024-2-chinese-agriculture-ecological-transformation/

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Just a moment...

Just a moment...

]]> 0 69753d90bfa31cd283c7ef70217cadbd Michael Degani posted an update: "There is a legend in Burma stating that swarms of […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6732/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:43:16 -0500 “There is a legend in Burma stating that swarms of male dragonflies
gather to join in choruses of high-pitched tones to court their mates.
The ones that don’t succeed in mating eventually scream so loud that
their chests explode and they drop dead to the ground.”

]]> 1 4cef4e9e41f93ebc16dd49cc8bcdf490 Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6712/#acomment-6731 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:39:56 -0500 @anand some thinking around it…I taught this during my “Sheltering in Places” seminar back during covid: https://placesjournal.org/article/the-crumple-and-the-scrape/

In reply to - Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building A new essay I wrote for MOLD magazine. “As so much seems to be falling apart at our feet, the task of finding structures and forms to keep life going[…] ]]> 5a49cafb7c3c771b2e8e83fdabe3b16a Michael Degani posted an update: Jim passed away last year and I miss him. A truly […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6721/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:40:17 -0500 Jim passed away last year and I miss him. A truly great ecological designer. This piece has been on my mind lately. Keep your systems limber.

“As a way of justifying my conduct to myself, I began to rehearse a
little discourse that I imagined delivering in perfect German. It went
something like this: ‘You know, you and especially…

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Anarchist Calisthenics, by James C. Scott

Anarchist Calisthenics, by James C. Scott

]]> 0 21542cc79efb75583230bd7e69465f24 Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6712/#acomment-6720 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:35:23 -0500 I loved the bit about resting one’s hand on the earthen wall. That is a gesture that just does not happen with drywall lol, and I love how it thus intimates a whole different bodily way of being. Staring at walls (like staring into fires) is another lost art to be recuperated.

In reply to - Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building A new essay I wrote for MOLD magazine. “As so much seems to be falling apart at our feet, the task of finding structures and forms to keep life going[…] ]]> 2c65490f70a64d82d7dd0ff4c7940194 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: https://www.hempbuildmag.com/home/patagonia-lower-sioux-movie […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6682/ Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:36:11 -0500 https://www.hempbuildmag.com/home/patagonia-lower-sioux-movie-oscar-eligible

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Patagonia’s Lower Sioux Hempcrete Doc ‘Oscar Eligible’ After Winning CA Film Festival — HempBuild Magazine

Patagonia's "The Green Buffalo" won first prize in its first film festival in California, and may be on its way to the Oscars next year.

]]> 0 2731181c9e61df86f6ec17d47a87bc68 Michael Degani posted an update: Are we ready for H5N1? This pandemic, like the last one […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6432/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:46:18 -0500 Are we ready for H5N1? This pandemic, like the last one (and the next one, and the next one after that) will be exactly where ecology and design meet. There is now a global infrastructure designed to connect the mass of human bodies in a single network, plantation style, with no effective breaks. 30 million people are expected to fly this…

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]]> 0 9562bff890394da92516a68350a9abba Michael Degani posted an update: I will be discussing the EDC on Wednesday 27 Nov at […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6421/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:43:22 -0500 I will be discussing the EDC on Wednesday 27 Nov at the Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS) brown bag. For folks attending, here is some optional background reading. Looking forward to seeing you there.

]]> 0 d73346e0f90a902685d97c445d526084 Michael Degani posted an update: […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6420/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:38:59 -0500 https://www.levernews.com/gop-takes-first-steps-to-shut-down-climate-groups/

In the preceding weeks, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s report focused on the Inflation Reduction Act’s distribution of federal funding, offering a preview of how the new terrorism legislation could be wielded for political purposes. It also highlighted the…

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GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups

Democrats are helping give Trump the power to wipe out enemy nonprofits — and there’s already a road map on how to defund clean energy groups.

]]> 0 cd94c0f95fec6c4caf71340e7ef6751d Michael Degani posted an update: It had […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6381/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:37:28 -0500 It had already ended.

https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1854065697669664897

]]> 0 7d5141fbc6984080969b6b37a606e4f6 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: 21,000 workers dead […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6342/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:46:15 -0400 21,000 workers dead in NEOM

https://x.com/zeithistoriker/status/1851264362629013728

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]]> 0 e48c97ff7ab9f85ca044a9cc9fb22502 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: https://www.aviva.com/newsroom/news-releases/2023/02/carbon-f […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6341/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:02:23 -0400 https://www.aviva.com/newsroom/news-releases/2023/02/carbon-footprint-of-restoring-a-flooded-home-can-be-equivalent-to-six-and-a-half-return-transatlantic-flights/

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Carbon footprint of restoring a flooded home can be equivalent to six and a half return transatlantic flights

Aviva calls for urgent action in creating climate-ready homes

]]> 0 2d0ff4e302359f88c235527e1095b1be Michael Degani posted an update: Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6166/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:22:14 -0400 Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

Network includes derogatory profiles of figures such as UN experts and food writer Michael Pollan, and is part of an effort to downplay pesticide dangers, records…

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Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

Network includes derogatory profiles of figures such as UN experts and food writer Michael Pollan, and is part of an effort to downplay pesticide dangers, records suggest

]]> 0 44fb76d393f50ebb35ffb16ba6cce875 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: Portugal's "Banco de Materias" Gotta love Rick Steves […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6159/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 04:51:53 -0400 Portugal’s “Banco de Materias” Gotta love Rick Steves and score another one for Southern European degrowth.

https://twitter.com/RickSteves/status/1839861921165783210

]]> 0 0b39f67af69b6995a80d06239a8b8692 Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6129/#acomment-6158 Sat, 28 Sep 2024 04:49:25 -0400 Thanks for starting the list Noah. @Anthony and I are planning to do Does the Earth Care by Mick Smith soon…

In reply to - Noah posted an update in the group EDC Book Club

Hi All,

I was wondering if we might start a running list of books that we would like to read together for the club. I was thinking that Zoë Schlanger’s Light[…]

]]> 4a2781865da6cc7473ddb0c00730edfa Michael Degani posted an update: marching orders...Thus, the overall thrust of the […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6099/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:57:51 -0400 marching orders…

Thus, the overall thrust of the AR6 “Mitigation” (or Part III) report is—for the first time in the IPCC process—that it is essential to turn to demand-side strategies, exploring cutbacks in energy use and across all economic sectors, as well as aggressively pursuing conservation and low-energy paths. Cities need to be…

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Monthly Review | October 2021 (Volume 73, Number 5)

What was most significant about the published Part I of the report was that it revealed that even in the most optimistic projection of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways—in which carbon emissions…

]]> 0 2857ebbc0c7b7e3bf4f5fce5edf5e3e8 Michael Degani started the discussion Join our Air Collective in the forum Opportunities https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/join-our-air-collective/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:01:07 -0400 Join our Air Collective

The Ecological Design Collective began to take shape in 2020, in the shadow of a pandemic that upended the design of everyday life and seemed to prefigure the climate breakdown. We felt a sense of urgency about growing a community of people interested in understanding the intersections of biological life, technology, politics, and art, and…

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]]> 50a6cf938bdf208b0dd46b3031d79f7b Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: Yes, air conditioning is a necessity now. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6049/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:51:07 -0400 Yes, air conditioning is a necessity now.


https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/yes-air-conditioning-is-a-necessity

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Yes, air conditioning is a necessity now.

But I think the reaction to Stan Cox's article is a bit harsh.

]]> 1 a382cc248b6efea6463a9bfd6e3e8ac6 Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6028/#acomment-6045 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:01:53 -0400 This is incredible Alyssa

In reply to - Alyssa Dennis posted an update

Hey, hey! More eco art anyone? I wanted to share this ongoing series of drawings which were done in response to my work in straw bale building from 2006-2008.

I worked as a laborer[…]

]]> 08472579244138d8984dbfc0e18920ff Michael Degani replied to the discussion Slow Down by Kohei Saito in the forum EDC Book Club https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/slow-down-by-kohei-saito/#post-8806 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:00:30 -0400 Reply to Slow Down by Kohei Saito

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/growth-degrowth-kohei-saito-susskind/

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The Intractable Puzzle of Growth

For more than a century, the key measure of a healthy economy has been its capacity to grow and yet if production and consumption continues to expand at their current rate we might risk the very health of the planet.

]]> f9ea6b4a9b33ab41f118b2f6ef15e40c Michael Degani: This piece always reminds me of our former curator […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6034/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:25:10 -0400 This piece always reminds me of our former curator and modern-day Whitman, .@janebennett

]]> 0 1e1f991e2a2f883e9d39a0fdba3a5ea2 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: An Ode to Kneading Dough In his chapter on the soft […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6019/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:44:30 -0400 An Ode to Kneading Dough

In his chapter on
the soft matter of the earth, Bachelard sees the workings of oils,
creams and doughs as derivatives from what he calls an ideal of primary
‘paste’, ‘the perfect synthesis of stiffness and softness, a marvellous
equilibrium of yielding and resisting forces’ (Bachelard 1948: 78).
Bachelard’s…

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]]> 1 66578b6755e36df4153b66787f6fae2e Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5966/#acomment-6013 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:47:06 -0400 YES, definitely. And Marx’s “The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital.” (And as I assume your book will say,…

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In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russel

The man who invests his savings in a concern that goes bankrupt is, therefore, injuring others as well as himself. If he spent his money,[…]
]]> 756383372844afcd8d9bcfa8d059c7f9 Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5982/#acomment-6012 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:40:55 -0400 Adriana Petryna has a nice discussion about algal blooms as illustrating irreversible tipping point…the linear addition of nitrogen and suddenly POP. There’s a concept that should definitely be part of the ecological imagination…

In reply to - Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination

Algal bloom on a corner of Lake Anna in Virginia. It’s beautiful in a way, especially when the late afternoon sun catches the water and[…]

]]> 8cbeaefca52924a7148a0198694b27c3 Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5991/#acomment-6011 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:37:24 -0400 That’s very cool @tarini thanks for sharing it. It reminds me of David Benjamin’s project for Moma. Boy, mushrooms are THE companion species (or maybe totem?) for the Anthropocene, huh? https://www.archdaily.com/521266/hy-fi-the-organic-mushroom-brick-tower-opens-at-moma-s-ps1-courtyard

In reply to - Tarini Monga posted an update in the group Green Building

Saw this exhibition titled, ‘Closer to Nature’ at Berlinische Gallery on building with alternative materials such as clay, wood and even fungi!

I[…]

]]> fd2a83573da7a33b227e8df7b015c336 Michael Degani posted an update: I always thought this little essay in self-examination, […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5979/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:26:22 -0400 I always thought this little essay in self-examination, now almost fifteen years old, got at the way a certain segment of workers are conditioned to throw money at their lack of time, and how cheap and degrading it feels. https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/

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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

Well I'm in the working world again. I've found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it's returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different … Continue reading

]]> 1 08f818604ff81403911af7850aacbf42 Michael Degani posted an update: In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand RusselThe man who […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5966/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:23:34 -0400 In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russel

The man who invests his savings in a concern that goes bankrupt is,
therefore, injuring others as well as himself. If he spent his money,
say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get
pleasure, and so would all those on whom he spent money, such as the
butcher, the baker, and…

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In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell

In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell

]]> 2 aa726e3c078b338fd84ba22aa7ddfd7c Michael Degani posted an update in the group Ecological Restoration x Design: https://twitter.com/TheLastFarm/status/1586734175326961664 https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5940/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:34:08 -0400 https://twitter.com/TheLastFarm/status/1586734175326961664

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]]> 0 9a0633ff035f4a674bb9aacdc1d71282 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: The Turducken Kitchen, or Bobos in Paradise with […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5860/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:59:57 -0400

The Turducken Kitchen, or Bobos in Paradise with Servant Quarters:

“But then,
behind the first kitchen, lies another. A “messy” kitchen. There, the
preparation for or remainders from a meal or party can be deposited for
later cleanup, out-of-sight, out-of-mind.”

So much floor…

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The Curse of an Open Floor Plan

A flowing, connected interior—once a fringe experiment of American architectural modernism—has become ubiquitous, and beloved. But it promises a liberation from housework that remains a fantasy.

]]> 1 02fb52e2695ae1f07a44356109bb0496 Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5827/#acomment-5848 Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:26:51 -0400 @Anthony

In reply to - Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building

I posted the link for this a ways back, but here is my essay Dwelling in the Climate Emergency in its entirety.


In this brief essay, I want to sketch[…]

]]> 0c0041591201a9b93b576e54baa0e393 Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5841/#acomment-5847 Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:57:42 -0400 scope and scale–this is honestly incredible, thanks for curating! If you ever come across stuff on geoengineering, throw it on the pile? Something to be keeping tabs on imo…

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Hi all,

I am starting a weekly roundup of environmental news and opinions. Comment below if any story catches your eye and you would like to discuss. Also please share any stories I missed[…]

]]> ba0c14c3174a5a9a8ed5221b18e09c2c Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5827/#acomment-5838 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 14:28:57 -0400 Thanks Anand. Apropos the sociomoral qualities of weightlessness—from Michael Jackson’s How Lifeworld’s Work:

In reply to - Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building

I posted the link for this a ways back, but here is my essay Dwelling in the Climate Emergency in its entirety.


In this brief essay, I want to sketch[…]

]]> 45abaac01a1dd2b15c560a7ca24b766a Michael Degani posted an update in the group Green Building: I posted the link for this a ways back, but here is my […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5827/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:21:06 -0400 I posted the link for this a ways back, but here is my essay Dwelling in the Climate Emergency in its entirety.

In this brief essay, I want to sketch how developments in architecture and design are exploring what it is to dwell in the climate emergency. Dwelling is a term derived from Martin Heidegger (1971) and thus has inevitably…

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]]> 4 8d0a72c496c0365abc9a81d3c834ce8c Michael Degani posted an update: ‘BYOP’: Americans bring their own power with outages on […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5826/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 10:11:55 -0400 ‘BYOP’: Americans bring their own power with outages on the rise

this reminds me of what Caroline Humphrey called the parecelization of sovereignty in Russia in the 1990s. The shattering into little feudal communities of self-provision.

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]]> 1 8edb59dc824dd106397787c99e34e3ef Michael Degani posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5767/#acomment-5794 Wed, 07 Aug 2024 14:05:32 -0400 well, tell us about it!

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During fieldwork, learning the lived experience of climate change from elder in Sikles village of Nepal.

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