What we offer

Postgraduate guest lecturing:
Ecological Design Thinking, Schumacher College

This course offers a chance to join a growing network of design thinkers around the world working within a series of hubs operating within communities and enterprises. Ecological Design Thinking is about using holistic approaches to unravel complex situations involving multiple stakeholders. Students learn how to apply a variety of skills and techniques to arrive at a creative solution.

“I wanted to say thank you for spending so much time with us during our bioregions modules at Schumacher. I really enjoyed our time at the reservoir and with you in the EDT building. You have a fabulous presentation style, so engaging and captivating. Master storyteller. Loved the days together, the learnings are still percolating.” – Student, January 2022

Course information on Schumacher’s website.

Postgraduate teaching module:
Bioregioning by Design – generating transformative stories of place

Piloted at Schumacher College in 2016, this module brings together wise practitioners (in this case Pamela Mang and Joel Glanzberg of the Regenesis Group with writer and sustainable design advocate John Thackara). The exploration of the regenerative design approach, Story of Place, is combined with a number of visits into the bioregion. Integral to the course, a day of design and problem-busting around local food systems brings local people into an exploration of bioregional working and food sheds.

Undergraduate teaching module:
Bioregioning by Design – for interdisciplinary design students

Piloted in 2015 with the Department of Architecture and Design at Plymouth University, second year BA (Hons) 3-D Design students are given a brief to design an intervention that would bring a bioregion to life; a physical Bioregioning hub or related theme such as the role of renewables. We ask students to ground their work in real needs, taking into account the influence they might have on people’s lives and the ecology of the places they visit. Deliverables are open-ended; products, services, artifacts, objects, experiences, places or spaces. A wide range of solutions are produced; architectural, sculptural, engineered, technological.