Introduction After first writing about Social and Racial Justice in Eco-Trauma-Informed Design, I felt that I needed to dive deeper into the mental health aspect of ecology and trauma. After all, the self is at the core of our ecology and our trauma, so if we don’t understand the self, how…

Introduction I’ve been reflecting on myself and my work as a designer. I’ve worked on numerous design projects, all with a social aspect to varying degrees. What makes them social projects? After searching for new resources and sitting down with webinars and readings from Creative Recreation Lab (CRL), here are some…

Consumerism has traditionally been the enemy of sustainability When we think of sustainability, what we should be thinking of are in terms of three systems; human, industrial product, and environmental. But how can business possibility survive without consumerism? How can we bring value to our customers without new offerings, and achieve increased profits, without increases in growth? To…

The Power Paradox A shifting landscape and changing forces are calling for citizens and consumers to create systemic change through authentic leadership, networks, and organizations, but what does it all mean? As a nation, we are constantly at war with traditional leaders, networks, and organizations. We hope for less stress, less hierarchy, less…

The Shifting Landscape: As recent political events have shown, nothing is certain, and as the development of the human mind evolves and as we become more enlightened, traditional organizations and man-made systems start to lag behind our needs more and more to the point where those systems become obtrusive to progress. Today, as…

But I suppose that would be very anthropocentric of me to say. However, it’s astonishing to think how much impact we’ve created to the planet in such short time compared to the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs out of the quaternary period (WWF, Living Planet Report). As the reality of tomorrow’s…