Cultural Evolution, Social Physics, and Metaphysical Design
The spiritual vision of the Bauhaus was a faith in people’s ability to transform society for good by breaking down divisions and working together toward a common purpose.
Stephen Bau
The Butterfly Effect
A lecture at L’Abri Southborough by Peter Harris, co-founder of A Rocha International, an international Christian organization that engages communities in nature conservation.
Contestants in a Suicidal Race
We thought that what we were building represented progress, when in fact it involved the active participation of vast populations to effectively enact a form of suicide.
The Adjacent Possible
The phenomenon of coinciding discoveries or inventions without direct communication, coordination, or cooperation.
Redesigning Education
Can we shift our focus from designing physical artifacts to designing living systems?
A Prayer for the Earth
I haven’t prayed for a while because I was wondering who I was praying to. I wrote a liturgy for Gaia, the incarnated universe, the divine feminine, Mother Earth.
A Legacy of Courage
In honour of Rachel Held Evans and as a testimony to her humour, insight, power, gentleness, and courage.
Finding that Resilience
You have to be resilient if you want to produce your own art in Canada.
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Help tell the stories of the invisible creative collective, the builders, who are doing the work of transformation.
Magazine
A Magazine
We need your help in crafting a different way of living together that does not dehumanize humans.
Podcast
A Podcast
Welcome to Design for Resilience, a podcast from the builders collective where we explore how we imagine, design, and build the future together. I am Stephen Bau.
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Building a Community
The unintended consequences of our designs and our habits might require an acknowledgement of our responsibility to change.