Community Bold Actions for a Climate Emergency The City of Vancouver hosted Bold Actions for a Climate Emergency at the Orpheum Theatre featuring live music, presentations, and personal reflections from experts and thought leaders about the urgency and scale of the climate crisis.
Experience Mental Models for Human Experience Transcending human-centered design, this is design that seeks to learn from nature, to put into practice the knowledge and principles of biomimicry to reimagine and redesign our environment, to reconnect ourselves to our own humanity and to reconnect us to the earth and all living things.
The Story of Design At the heart of the human project is the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
Modern Dance We dance because we are human. It is a rebellion against the conformity of our age to a belief that we exist to feed the machine.
Living Systems The Big Picture I have been trying to propose another way of looking at the world that we have designed as part of a much larger system that we barely understand and that we are only beginning to acknowledge has been profoundly impacted by our actions on this earth.
Design The Evolution of a Designer As a designer, I have been adapting to the social, economic, political, and technological environment for fifty-one years.
Design 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.
Ecology 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.
Build 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.
Imagine The Adjacent Possible The phenomenon of coinciding discoveries or inventions without direct communication, coordination, or cooperation.
Design Redesigning Education Can we shift our focus from designing physical artifacts to designing living systems?
Imagine 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.
Imagine Finding that Resilience You have to be resilient if you want to produce your own art in Canada.
Community Support Us on Patreon 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.
Community Building a Community The unintended consequences of our designs and our habits might require an acknowledgement of our responsibility to change.
Culture A World of Music Music is universal in human experience. The sounds inspired by the rhythms and repititions of daily life permeate our environment.
Build Making the Switch I retired my old blog and started up this new site created with Ghost and hosted on a new server on DigitalOcean.
Work Builders Collective Human-centred design involves a process of understanding what is most important and what we can do that will be the most effective in solving the challenges we face.
Ghost Building a UX Design Portofolio I have been exploring some ideas about how to build a user experience design portfolio with Ghost. This seemed like a good opportunity to explore the possibility of using Ghost as a static site generator to publish to Netlify.
Motion Design for BLDRS Collective Bringing people together can be the beginning of reflection, reconciliation, restoration, and rest. This was my first time working with Adobe After Effects.
Build Minimum Viable Product Showing the slide deck and the lean canvas prototype was key to having a conversation about an idea that resonated with a desire to do something about climate change.
Ghost Publishing with Ghost Several years ago, out of necessity, I built my own static site generator with XSLT. Ever since, I have been exploring static site generators and building sites on the JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup).
