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Frameworks and Change London 6 th June Ken Webster and Craig Johnson (Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have a high regard for metaphor. It is the way we come to understand the world Ian McGilchrist.
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The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. George Lakoff
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The world as mechanism Understandable Predictable Controllable Linear Nature as resource and waste dump
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The triumph of the rational economic individual The rise of the specialist Markets as arbiters Competition as primary Money as value
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Systemic stress
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… a response to a troublesome linear economy? or variations on business as usual but greener and fairer?
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End of the line? Maximum oil output nearby - peak oil Rising trend materials prices Systemic stress - biodiversity, water, food, materials, population etc Climate change
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A Changed Worldview? If the machine inspired the industrial age, the image of the living system may inspire a genuine postindustrial age, say Peter Senge et al., in Sloan Management Review. You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller
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Lets think of a cherry tree
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Circular Economy framework Some key principles: Waste=Food (Technical and Biological nutrient cycles) Energy should come from renewable sources Diversity is strength Systems thinking
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Circular Economy design (eg Transport and Food systems)
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A circular economy is not about objects its about systems thinking in systems and cycles, we become metabolists Gunter Pauli
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