Design and Innovation

Exploring how Bauhaus principles of durability and sufficiency directly threatened the growth-dependent capitalism that would come to dominate the 20th century.

Examining the thermodynamic principles of regime escalation and institutional overheating.

A systems engineering approach to understanding liberty and regime failure.

Exploring the structural mechanics of state stability and regime failure.

Exploring the boundaries and limitations of biomimicry as a design methodology.

Examining the trade-off between peak performance and adaptive capacity in biological and human systems.

Understanding how complex order emerges from simple rules in biological systems.

Exploring how biological systems adapt to local conditions using available materials.

Examining how biological systems operate in circular economies without waste categories.