{"id":13400,"date":"2023-01-23T19:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T00:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=13400"},"modified":"2023-01-23T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T00:11:57","slug":"how-to-thrive-in-the-next-economy-designing-tomorrows-world-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/how-to-thrive-in-the-next-economy-designing-tomorrows-world-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow&#8217;s World Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Enlightening\u2026 In thoughtful vignettes, Thackara examines numerous grassroots initiatives around the world [and] proposes \u2018an economy based on social energy,\u2019 that uses a very small percentage of the resources presently used\u2026 Recommended.\u201d\u2015<\/strong><strong><em>Choice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges\u2015climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare\u2015that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed but ultimately optimistic book, he argues that, in our eagerness to find big technological solutions, we have all too often ignored the astonishing creativity generated when people work together and in harmony with the world around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing on an inspiring range of examples, from a temple-led water management system in Bali that dates back hundreds of years to an innovative e-bike collective in Vienna, Thackara shows that below the radar of the mainstream media there are global communities creating a replacement economy\u2015one that nurtures the earth and its inhabitants rather than jeopardizing its future\u2015from the ground up. Each chapter is devoted to a concern all humans share\u2015land and water management, housing, what we eat, what we wear, our health, how and why we travel\u2015and demonstrates that it is possible to live a rich and fulfilling life based on stewardship rather than exploitation of the natural environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Personal Notes:<\/strong> This book will allow me to look at and further understand definitions within the design discipline, furthering allowing me to define and delineate the topic of my research and where my work is situated within academic practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/John-Thackara\/e\/B001HCYV28\/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\">Thackara, J<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp;(2017).&nbsp;<em><em>How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow&#8217;s World Today<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlightening\u2026 In thoughtful vignettes, Thackara examines numerous grassroots initiatives around the world [and] proposes \u2018an economy based on social energy,\u2019 that uses a very small percentage of the resources presently used\u2026 Recommended.\u201d\u2015Choice Summary: Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges\u2015climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare\u2015that threaten our way of life? 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