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"01a0d3fc-85e9-704d-9c28-c5e0de8d7d14", "title": "From Oil Age to Soil Age: Pathways to Sustainability", "url": "https://thackara.com/most-read/from-oil-age-to-soil-age-pathways-to-sustainability/", "published_at": "2020-05-12T16:45:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d3fc-85e9-704d-9c28-c5e0df052ebb", "title": "Civic Ecology as a Design Space", "url": "https://thackara.com/civicecology/civic-ecology-as-a-design-space/", "published_at": "2020-05-11T16:30:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d3fc-a45d-7191-9624-286011941443", "title": "When Value Arises from Relationships, not from Things", "url": "https://thackara.com/natureconnection/when-value-arises-from-relationships-not-from-things/", "published_at": "2020-05-08T16:26:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d3fc-a45d-7191-9624-286011cf2ab2", "title": "“Playing For Time”: creating the conditions for change", "url": "https://thackara.com/natureconnection/playing-for-time-creating-the-conditions-for-change/", "published_at": "2020-02-29T12:52:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d3fc-a45d-7191-9624-286012033e1e", "title": "In an Ecological Civilization, Place is our Professor", "url": "https://thackara.com/civicecology/in-an-ecological-civilization-place-is-our-professor/", "published_at": "2020-01-02T15:52:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d3fc-a45d-7191-9624-286012ced7f7", "title": "December Newsletter", "url": "https://thackara.com/newsletter/december-newsletter/", "published_at": "2019-12-10T07:46:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d3fc-a45d-7191-9624-2860130a2b52", "title": "Urban-Rural: 10 Takeaways", "url": "https://thackara.com/urbanrural/urban-rural-10-takeaways/", "published_at": "2019-11-01T15:30:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d3fc-c590-737e-aaa4-28e8dfaf213c", "title": "Press Release: Urban-Rural exhibition in Shanghai", "url": "https://thackara.com/urbanrural/press-release-urban-rural-exhibition-in-shanghai/", "published_at": "2019-10-28T15:10:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d3fc-c590-737e-aaa4-28e8e0099162", "title": "Newsletter October 2019", "url": 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2026

Two Time Ecologies: Designing for Production and Designing for Care original ↗

14 Sept 2026

MicroStimuli: The New Science Of Persuasion original ↗

14 Aug 2026

MicroStimuli: The New Science Of Persuasion original ↗

14 Aug 2026

Cooling Infrastructures are Social as well as Technical original ↗

6 Jul 2026

Cooling Infrastructures are Social as well as Technical original ↗

6 Jul 2026

So you want to start an Ecological Learning Centre?original ↗

24 May 2026

So you want to start an Ecological Learning Centre?original ↗

24 May 2026

Designing for life: sounds nice, but where are the jobs?original ↗

2 Apr 2026

Dates for 2026 MeetUps in France original ↗

3 Mar 2026

A post-irrigation economy? Bioregioning as health care at Aral School in Uzbekistan original ↗

18 Feb 2026

Ecological Knowledge Systems original ↗

24 Jan 2026

Bringing together municipalism and bioregionalism original ↗

24 Jan 2026

Watersheds, Swamps and Wetlands original ↗

24 Jan 2026

Bioregioning as Health Care: Wordy Slides original ↗

24 Jan 2026

Designing for life, for real original ↗

2 Jan 2026

2025

Care, Value, Place2, Mumbai, October 2025 original ↗

13 Oct 2025

The ecological economy is now original ↗

5 Oct 2025

From Green Design to Ecological Design(1): Can AI enable new ways of knowing – and being?original ↗

22 Sept 2025

From Green Design to Ecological Design (2): Beyond Calculation: AI and Sustainability original ↗

20 Sept 2025

How to balance proximity and modernity original ↗

29 Jul 2025

AgTech for Agroecology original ↗

15 Jun 2025

Learning-by-designing-and-making: Emiliano Godoy’s El ABC del Diseño original ↗

8 May 2025

Bioregioning: Sounds Nice, but I Need a Job original ↗

17 Apr 2025

Newsletter & 2025 Thackara Meetup Dates original ↗

24 Mar 2025

In a cave with crows original ↗

4 Jan 2025

2024

Introduction (and postscript) to ‘Care, Value, Place’ in Mumbai original ↗

26 Dec 2024

What can art bring to soil care?original ↗

1 Nov 2024

Care, Value, Place: Social-Ecological Project Leaders to Meet In Mumbai original ↗

4 Sept 2024

Bioregional Conversations original ↗

15 Jul 2024

Caring for Place vs Systems Thinking: Can They Meet?original ↗

15 Mar 2024

Design for Multi-Species Cities original ↗

3 Mar 2024

Design for multi-species cities original ↗

2 Mar 2024

2023

7-Day-Sabbaticals, the ecological turn in design, and other news original ↗

30 Nov 2023

Infrastructures of care original ↗

22 Aug 2023

Design and Energy: Thirteen Great Writers original ↗

25 Jul 2023

New Thackara MeetUp: 9-16 September 2023 original ↗

14 Jul 2023

What are design institutes actually for?original ↗

9 Jun 2023

Thackara Meetup July 2023 is sold out original ↗

27 May 2023

Thinking about a change?original ↗

11 May 2023

Designing for Life in Practice: 80 Case Study Collections original ↗

27 Apr 2023

Lifeworlds: Nature as urban infrastructure original ↗

10 Mar 2023

Ethics, Design, Care original ↗

3 Mar 2023

2022

John Thackara News: Designing for life – from microbes to bioregions original ↗

9 Nov 2022

The Good Work In Urban-Rural original ↗

4 Oct 2022

Modern Environmentalism: A Rough Guide from Gilgamesh to COP26 original ↗

27 Sept 2022

Sustainable Finance vs the Real World original ↗

15 Aug 2022

The (Design) Journey Back To Local original ↗

3 Jul 2022

Social Food Green Paper original ↗

29 Jun 2022

Back To The Land 2.0: Some JT Videos original ↗

20 Jun 2022

Sustainability You Can Touch original ↗

15 Jun 2022

Food Systems and Design original ↗

15 Jun 2022

From Control, to Kinship: Ecological Restoration in a More Than Human World original ↗

10 Jun 2022

Ideas for the City That Cares: Ezio Manzini’s new book, Livable Proximity original ↗

28 Apr 2022

Tonantsintlalli – a Multidimensional Mother Earth original ↗

15 Apr 2022

Newsletter: Microbes and Social Equity. Tools for Changemakers. Meetups & Offsites original ↗

24 Mar 2022

Open School for Village Hosts original ↗

24 Mar 2022

Tools for Changemakers: Conversation with David Bollier original ↗

19 Mar 2022

Design for Multi-Species Cities original ↗

7 Mar 2022

“An inspiring design”original ↗

28 Feb 2022

Microbes and Social Equity – conversation with Dr Sue Ishaq original ↗

15 Feb 2022

My newsletter: Meetup dates | Regenerative Design in China | Back To The Land 2.0 original ↗

30 Jan 2022

2021

Heathrow chaos: time to start digging?original ↗

7 Oct 2021

Entretien avec Domus Magazine original ↗

7 Oct 2021

How AI might be used to enhance local knowledge original ↗

11 Sept 2021

The Anthroponaut’s Wordbook, by Karin Fink original ↗

10 Sept 2021

Re-wilding the Bauhaus: what its foundation course should be like today original ↗

18 May 2021

Cities as Lifeworlds original ↗

8 Apr 2021

john chris jones and ‘designing designing’original ↗

11 Mar 2021

The relationship of my texts to a dead fish original ↗

4 Mar 2021

2020

Sensory Orders original ↗

5 Dec 2020

Bottom-up Biodiversity original ↗

27 Nov 2020

Interview with BBC Mundo original ↗

16 Jun 2020

A “Marshall Plan for tourism” – but with what aim?original ↗

19 May 2020

Urban-Rural: The New Geographies of Innovation original ↗

15 May 2020

Articles in Resilience original ↗

14 May 2020

The City as a Living System: A Design Research Agenda original ↗

13 May 2020

From Oil Age to Soil Age: Pathways to Sustainability original ↗

12 May 2020

Civic Ecology as a Design Spaceoriginal ↗

11 May 2020

When Value Arises from Relationships, not from Things original ↗

8 May 2020

“Playing For Time”: creating the conditions for change original ↗

29 Feb 2020

In an Ecological Civilization, Place is our Professor original ↗

2 Jan 2020

2019

December Newsletter original ↗

10 Dec 2019

Urban-Rural: 10 Takeaways original ↗

1 Nov 2019

Press Release: Urban-Rural exhibition in Shanghai original ↗

28 Oct 2019

Newsletter October 2019 original ↗

3 Oct 2019

Back To The Land – video talks original ↗

8 Jun 2019

Newsletter: Three texts, a book, two meet-ups, and an off-site original ↗

3 Jun 2019

Back to the Land 2.0 Reader (2019)original ↗

18 May 2019

Urban-Rural reconnection: research statement for Tongji University original ↗

15 May 2019

Re-wilding the Bauhaus: what its foundation course should be like today original ↗

20 Apr 2019

Bioregioning: Pathways to Urban-Rural Reconnection original ↗

13 Apr 2019

Social Food Forum: the takeaways original ↗

23 Mar 2019

2018

How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Preface to the Chinese edition original ↗

31 Oct 2018

From Neighbourhood To Bioregion: The City as a Living System original ↗

24 Oct 2018

Two-wheeled logistics: a city manager’s 19-point to-do list original ↗

29 Aug 2018

From commodities, to connection: A platform for the co-op grains movement original ↗

25 May 2018

Welsh Chapels and Coworking original ↗

18 May 2018

Connected Botanic Garden original ↗

18 May 2018

Social Farming original ↗

14 May 2018

Coders in the Countryside original ↗

8 May 2018