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REFRAMING THE PRACTICE & THEORY OF DESIGN

In which the mindful reader, reviewing the main concerns of permaculture – sparing efforts and energy (utilitas), increasing resilience (firmitas) and managing worlds (venustas) – is led to wonder whether its proponents might not have evolved the most consistent theory of design since Vitruvius and Alberti, and the fiercest challenge to the alleged rationality at work in the spheres of agriculture, architecture and urbanism today.



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