Essential reading for those who are not scared to take a fresh look at seemingly familiar things. The #commons are one important way forward as the planetary crisis accelerates & cascades. Community resilience is the key to perpetual adaptation.
#TransitionDesign
#TransitionDesign
My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common
This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...
www.tandfonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Essential reading for those who are not scared to take a fresh look at seemingly familiar things. The #commons are one important way forward as the planetary crisis accelerates & cascades. Community resilience is the key to perpetual adaptation.
#TransitionDesign
#TransitionDesign
Following #AF2025 in Ōtautahi Christchurch – inspiring focus on trust, relationships, and inclusion in how adaptation happens.
I’ve refreshed the Learning for Sustainability page, curating links to frameworks and reflections.
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/climate-adap...
#AdaptationFutures2025
I’ve refreshed the Learning for Sustainability page, curating links to frameworks and reflections.
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/climate-adap...
#AdaptationFutures2025
Climate adaptation: frameworks, practice, and learning - learningforsustainability.net
Explore practical climate adaptation frameworks, MEL, collaboration, and futures thinking. Updated ahead of Adaptation Futures 2025 in Christchurch.
learningforsustainability.net
October 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Strange coincidence—I discussed this yesterday in my #TransitionDesign class as extreme example of a wicked problem. It illustrates the arrogance of modernist engineers who believed they could fully control nature. In the end, they couldn’t—and instead, triggered a massive, cascading disaster.
“Aral Sea is a place where all the most urgent concerns of today come together. Soil, water, energy, food, textiles and air quality – it can be seen as the live laboratory of the future and can help us rethink what's possible for many generations to come” (V interesting) www.aralschool.uz
Aral School — Interdisciplinary Program for Ecocultural Regeneration
Aral School is an international, interdisciplinary postgraduate program supported by the Uzbekistan Art & Culture Development Foundation (ACDF), launching in 2026. Fully funded: tuition, accommodation...
www.aralschool.uz
October 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Strange coincidence—I discussed this yesterday in my #TransitionDesign class as extreme example of a wicked problem. It illustrates the arrogance of modernist engineers who believed they could fully control nature. In the end, they couldn’t—and instead, triggered a massive, cascading disaster.
Our business-as-usual consumer economy creates staggering toxic waste and squanders precious resources. We must do better—this is no way to face a planetary crisis. #transitiondesign #theSmartEnoughCity
Nobody needs Windows 11, and I shudder to think how much e-waste this pointless "upgrade" will generate
Windows 10 EOL could generate £1.8B of e-waste in UK alone • The Register www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/w...
Windows 10 EOL could generate £1.8B of e-waste in UK alone • The Register www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/w...
Windows 10 EOL could generate £1.8B of e-waste in UK alone
: Recyclers reckon millions of obsolete PCs could yield a small fortune in precious metals
www.theregister.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Our business-as-usual consumer economy creates staggering toxic waste and squanders precious resources. We must do better—this is no way to face a planetary crisis. #transitiondesign #theSmartEnoughCity
That’s why it makes sense to (re)build resilient regional systems—for energy, food & mobility—empower local communities, and nurture collective creativity, while simultaneously slowing the breakdown of global systems. We need complex, emergent and adaptive changemaking strategies. #transitiondesign
'UK’s national security is under severe threat from the #climatecrisis & the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages & economic disaster potentially just yrs away, a powerful report by the UK’s intelligence chiefs is due to warn' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
That’s why it makes sense to (re)build resilient regional systems—for energy, food & mobility—empower local communities, and nurture collective creativity, while simultaneously slowing the breakdown of global systems. We need complex, emergent and adaptive changemaking strategies. #transitiondesign
Excellent thread. We urgently need to move beyond the model of individual car ownership. And it’s not just about CO₂ — every new car, electric or not, demands vast resources. We’re also facing a resource crisis, and most cities suffer from a loss of public space.
#wickedproblem #transitiondesign
#wickedproblem #transitiondesign
'To put it bluntly, a path to zero emissions that relies on electrifying individual cars is not only the most resource-intensive route to zero emissions, but also the slowest route to that urgent goal'
jaja
1 model y battery requires as much Li+ as 160 e-bikes
www.commondreams.org/opinion/gree...
jaja
1 model y battery requires as much Li+ as 160 e-bikes
www.commondreams.org/opinion/gree...
Can We Design a Green Transition That Doesn't Turbocharge Extraction? | Common Dreams
Policies that promote alternatives to car use, reduce sprawl, encourage more compact batteries, and require recycling would all reduce the scale of mining needed for carbon-free transportation.
www.commondreams.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Excellent thread. We urgently need to move beyond the model of individual car ownership. And it’s not just about CO₂ — every new car, electric or not, demands vast resources. We’re also facing a resource crisis, and most cities suffer from a loss of public space.
#wickedproblem #transitiondesign
#wickedproblem #transitiondesign
"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"
#climatechange #transitiondesign
bbc.com/news/article...
#climatechange #transitiondesign
bbc.com/news/article...
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.
bbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"
#climatechange #transitiondesign
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#climatechange #transitiondesign
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Essential reading ! #TransitionDesign
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Essential reading ! #TransitionDesign
This is a critical thread — please read it in full. Our planetary systems (environmental, economic, social, political, geopolitical) are under immense stress and nearing collapse. The poorest of the poor are hit hardest.
#TransitionDesign has never been more urgent.
#TransitionDesign has never been more urgent.
I wrote this a year ago. It stands up pretty well.
In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.
Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.
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In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.
Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.
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Climate chaos is coming for us.
Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.
I'm a climate futurist.
Let me level with you about what this means.
🧵
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Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.
I'm a climate futurist.
Let me level with you about what this means.
🧵
(Img:OldMarshallJailHotel)
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is a critical thread — please read it in full. Our planetary systems (environmental, economic, social, political, geopolitical) are under immense stress and nearing collapse. The poorest of the poor are hit hardest.
#TransitionDesign has never been more urgent.
#TransitionDesign has never been more urgent.
Good quote. I would add that design also needs to engage at different scales—strategically connecting the local and the global. Designers have to learn to think simultaneously across different temporal *and* spatial horizons.
#transitiondesign
#transitiondesign
Nice to see my talk at World Design Congress quoted in this roundup.
“The challenge is that we have to work at two speeds simultaneously: with immediate urgency, and with the vision to begin the slow project of reimagining our relationship with the living world”
www.dezeen.com/2025/09/16/w...
“The challenge is that we have to work at two speeds simultaneously: with immediate urgency, and with the vision to begin the slow project of reimagining our relationship with the living world”
www.dezeen.com/2025/09/16/w...
Six key messages from the World Design Congress
The World Design Congress saw the world's leading designers gather to discuss the planet's future. Here we pick the most prominent themes from the event.
www.dezeen.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Good quote. I would add that design also needs to engage at different scales—strategically connecting the local and the global. Designers have to learn to think simultaneously across different temporal *and* spatial horizons.
#transitiondesign
#transitiondesign
Nestled in the hills east of Kōriyama, Fukushima #Branch is a vegan, fair-trade café and community space promoting sustainable living, where food, health, nature, and habitat form a connected whole. #transitiondesign
August 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Nestled in the hills east of Kōriyama, Fukushima #Branch is a vegan, fair-trade café and community space promoting sustainable living, where food, health, nature, and habitat form a connected whole. #transitiondesign
If you’d like to follow my reflections on urban & rural Japan (sometimes also on similar issues in my native Germany), join me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/chr.dimmer/
Let’s explore shared #planningcultures & imagine better futures together!
#changemaking #transitiondesign #communityresilience
Let’s explore shared #planningcultures & imagine better futures together!
#changemaking #transitiondesign #communityresilience
August 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you’d like to follow my reflections on urban & rural Japan (sometimes also on similar issues in my native Germany), join me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/chr.dimmer/
Let’s explore shared #planningcultures & imagine better futures together!
#changemaking #transitiondesign #communityresilience
Let’s explore shared #planningcultures & imagine better futures together!
#changemaking #transitiondesign #communityresilience
Can design help us transition to a just, sustainable world? Escobar says yes—but only if it’s rooted in autonomy, relationality, and indigenous wisdom. #TransitionDesign #Pluriverse
January 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Can design help us transition to a just, sustainable world? Escobar says yes—but only if it’s rooted in autonomy, relationality, and indigenous wisdom. #TransitionDesign #Pluriverse
Officially ABD! Feels great to have passed my mid-program defence. Very excited for the next phase of research! #PhD #transitiondesign #education #designingshift
December 11, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Officially ABD! Feels great to have passed my mid-program defence. Very excited for the next phase of research! #PhD #transitiondesign #education #designingshift
Mid-program defence tomorrow for my PhD. Can’t wait to share my ideas about how we could use transition design thinking in the design of education to create better health outcomes in society. #transitiondesign #highered
December 10, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Mid-program defence tomorrow for my PhD. Can’t wait to share my ideas about how we could use transition design thinking in the design of education to create better health outcomes in society. #transitiondesign #highered
New Metaphors + Lost Futures workshop at Transition Design Education conference https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/transitiondesign/en/o-konferenci — addressing the topics of futures of moving, eating, and wearing from @ImagineSustain1 through metaphors and hauntology
November 4, 2024 at 3:14 AM
New Metaphors + Lost Futures workshop at Transition Design Education conference https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/transitiondesign/en/o-konferenci — addressing the topics of futures of moving, eating, and wearing from @ImagineSustain1 through metaphors and hauntology
sorry the link above broke — here’s the right one https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/transitiondesign/en/o-konferenci
Conference | Transition Design | KISK PHIL MUNI
Conference Encountering Non-humans: Conference on Methodologies for the Post-Anthropocene
kisk.phil.muni.cz
November 4, 2024 at 8:27 AM
sorry the link above broke — here’s the right one https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/transitiondesign/en/o-konferenci
This Friday, I'll be giving a keynote on "Design & Imagination in Climate Futuring" at @MasarykUni @kiskffmu conference Transition–Design–Education, Prague—alongside some great folks https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/transitiondesign/en/o-konferenci
(+ Sat workshop "Exploring...
(+ Sat workshop "Exploring...
November 4, 2024 at 3:14 AM
This Friday, I'll be giving a keynote on "Design & Imagination in Climate Futuring" at @MasarykUni @kiskffmu conference Transition–Design–Education, Prague—alongside some great folks https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/transitiondesign/en/o-konferenci
(+ Sat workshop "Exploring...
(+ Sat workshop "Exploring...
the future is dismantled brick by brick, mattress by mattress…
#transitiondesign
#transitiondesign
November 23, 2024 at 10:42 PM
the future is dismantled brick by brick, mattress by mattress…
#transitiondesign
#transitiondesign
<a href="http://imaginari.es/publications/Designing_For_Transitions_DRS2018.pdf" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://imaginari.es/publications/Designing_For_Transitions_DRS2018.pdf #transitiondesign
November 4, 2024 at 7:25 AM
<a href="http://imaginari.es/publications/Designing_For_Transitions_DRS2018.pdf" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://imaginari.es/publications/Designing_For_Transitions_DRS2018.pdf #transitiondesign
In Great Hall at Dartington for #transitiondesign symposium
November 4, 2024 at 9:03 AM
In Great Hall at Dartington for #transitiondesign symposium