{"id":63,"date":"2020-09-27T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/2020\/09\/27\/expertise-john-thackara-where-social-and-ecological-systems-meet-design\/"},"modified":"2020-09-27T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:46:17","slug":"expertise-john-thackara-where-social-and-ecological-systems-meet-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/2020\/09\/27\/expertise-john-thackara-where-social-and-ecological-systems-meet-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Expertise: John Thackara: where social and ecological systems meet design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" async='on' loading='lazy' class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thackara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/JohnThackara2013photoUrosAbram-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/thackara.com\/working-with-john-thackara\/\">John Thackara<\/a> is influencing design since decades. John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer. He curated the celebrated <em>Doors of Perception<\/em> conference for 20 years \u2013 first in Amsterdam, later across India \u2013 and was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial <em>Dott 07<\/em> and the French design biennial <em>City Eco Lab<\/em>. With a focus on focus on social, ecological and relational design, Thackara has curated place-based <em>xskool<\/em> workshops in 20 countries. He studied philosophy before working for ten years as a book publisher and magazine editor. He was the first director (1993\u201499) of the Netherlands Design Institute. He is a senior fellow at the Royal College of Art, and visiting professor at School of Visual Arts in New York and at Pontio Innovation in Wales. His most recent book \u2013 <em>How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow\u2019s World Today<\/em> \u2013 has just been published in China where, since 2019, he is a visiting professor at Tongji University with a focus on urban-rural reconnection.<\/p>\n<p>He curated an excellent exhibition in China last year about reconnecting to the rural (see his paper about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2405872619300012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bioregioning: Pathways to Urban-Rural Reconnection<\/a> here).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, John co-leads the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backtotheland.se\/\">Back to the Land Summer School<\/a> that our partner school Konstfack runs every tow years. This experience &#8211; also in conducting it this year fully online &#8211; is highly relevant. See his excellent reading list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backtotheland.se\/references\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Highly valuable in general is a look at his contributions and talks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/john-thackara\/\">resilience<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We are happy to have John with us in one of our seminar sessions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"scoped_notify_notify_others":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5801],"tags":[5807,5806,5803,5805,5804],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expertise","tag-bioregioning","tag-reconnecting","tag-resilience","tag-rurban","tag-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/eufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}