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As a designer of buildings, things, and systems, I ask myself how to apply these three characteristics of living systems to my work. How do I employ the concept of waste equals food, of current solar income, of protecting biodiversity in design? Before I can even apply these principles, though, we must understand the role of the designer in human affairs.
In thinking about this, I reflect upon a commentary of Emerson’s . In the 1830’s, when his wife died, he went to Europe on a sailboat and returned in a steamship. He remarked on the return voyage that he missed the “Aeolian connection.” If we abstract this, he went over on a solar-powered recyclable vehicle operated by craftspersons, working in the open air, practicing ancient arts. He returned in a steel rust bucket, spilling oil on the water and smoke into the sky, operated by people in a black dungeon shoveling coal into the mouth of a boiler. Both ships are objects of design. Both are manifestations of our human intention.
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Thanks Randolfo.
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