John Thackara
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John Thackara|Essays
Lean Logic: A Dictionary For The Future and How To Survive It
I have never encountered a book that is so hard to characacterise yet so hard, despite its weight, to put down.
John Thackara|Essays
Ten Ways to Redesign Design Competitions
How to improve design competitions aimed at social good.
John Thackara|Essays
Life is a Picnic in the Fertile City
If you're in Paris before July 24, a spectacular exhibition called The Fertile City: Towards An Urban Nature is well worth a visit.
John Thackara|Essays
Edible Architecture
Today seems to be the day when, once a year in this part of France, every spider in the region spins her best possible web at the same moment.
John Thackara|Essays
Knife Sharpening
Last week I was taught how to sharpen our kitchen knives by a wood carver, Howard Raybould, who's been honing his technique for 30 years
John Thackara|Essays
Shoe Town to Brew Town
Could small resource-sharing breweries be a centerpiece of a regional economic development?
John Thackara|Essays
How to Make Systems Thinking Sexy
John Thackara's 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge keynote address.
John Thackara|Essays
Geeked-out Gardening
A “computer that runs your garden” also known as an Automated Garden Facility (AGF), also known as Garduino.
John Thackara|Essays
Open Season on Dutch Cultural Innovation
In a memorandum titled More than Quality the Dutch Arts Minister Halbe Zijlstra has announced savage cuts to the country's arts budget
John Thackara|Interviews
The High-Tech Permaculture Metabolic Engine Greenhouse
Interview with industrial ecologist Eva Gladek about a net-zero-impact urban farm system called Polydome.
John Thackara|Essays
Kick-off!
This was a first for me: witnessing first-hand a Kickstarter project cross the line and go live.
John Thackara|Essays
Bad taps, Good taps
Continuing our theme of systems thinking and the need for a new aesthetics — oh, what the heck, let's talk about taps.