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Synergy Tools to Guide the Effective Development of a 'Meta-Design' Methodology
Arguably, our systems of governance, economics, industry, and welfare are so powerfully intertwined that they tend to assimilate and subvert anything that threatens to reduce economic growth. This renders ‘design for sustainability’ ineffective because it operates at levels that are too local, specialised, or partial. We therefore wanted to cultivate a locally interdependent ‘living style’ that would include its own economic currency system, autonomous building methods, local food production, etc. As expertise required for the whole project would be beyond existing specialist design disciplines, we envisaged a new mode of ‘metadesign’ that could be evaluated by monitoring its ‘synergies’ at many levels. For this reason our distinguished research team of 14 included a micro-economist, building energy scientist, medical practitioner, civil engineer, artist, psychologist, and theoretical physicist, in addition to several pioneers in eco-design, eco-architecture, design theory, and design management.
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