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With a rapidly growing global population comes a surging demand for resources, and unprecedented alteration to Earth’s ecosystems. The entire spectrum of human settlements from large metropoles or city regions to villages extract natural resources on the one hand and, on the other, produce waste products that when not handled properly pollute the natural environment.
Through the Life-Centered Design Challenge, we guide communities through a creative process of identifying the current modelling the preferred final state of their environment. We help them understand how connected and interdependent we are with nature. This transforms the idea of ownership of things to responsible stewardship.
By overlaying the ecosystem with the human settlements and concentrating on the areas that both systems intersect, models better presents how our actions continue to degrade the environment and most importantly how nature responds to these disturbances.
‘This new worldview for design means that responsibility for the welfare of all of life is now our mandate, our challenge, and our inspiration.’ Bruce Mau (Mau, 2020)
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