As we entrench ourselves deeper in the climate crisis year by year, new solutions are conceptualized to reverse the damage. The problem with many of these solutions is that they often only look at the direct ecological impacts that are causing the climate crisis. While these impacts are critical starting points, we must also take into consideration external variables that cross pollinate with these impacts to create institutionalized crisis systems. We must begin to see the connections between external variables and how each node within this extensive nexus affects the the state of all the others. By looking at the climate crisis through the various lenses of these different areas of impact, as well as through a spectrum of time, we can become better informed about where and how we can begin to reverse the damage.
The Decade of Rethinking Everything , is a collection of texts that inform on different areas of regeneration and innovation — within the scope of the physical environment, political ideas, self, and technology. The publication follows the structure of Eric Holthaus’s text “In 2030, we ended the climate emergency, here’s how,” from the year 2020 to 2030. With Holthaus’s interpretation of each year, I introduce selected relevant texts that augment and add a contextual base to the change being advocated per year. The publication, in its entirety or indexicly, is an invitation to questions and curiosity about the present and the future.
2020_Micro Steps for Macro Change
- 01_Tents to Clothes
Natashah Hitti
02_Shoes and Other Things
Samantha Goretski
03_Sails to Backpacks
Yves Behar
04_Parachutes to Chairs
Srishti Mitra
05_Eggs to Bowls
Basse Stittgen
2021_Decentralisation
- 06_The End is Always Near
Rob Horning
07_Decentralising Organisations
Ana Manzanedo and Liliana Arroyo
2022_Individual to Collective
- 08_Relation + Separation
Agora Journal of Urban Planning + Design
09_Conversational Research
Taarati Taiaroa
2023_Post Ecocide Space
- 10_Ten Sustainable Commandments
Post Fossil City
11_City of Sounds and Silence
Post Fossil City
12_Sensorial Time Travel
Post Fossil City
2024_Electrify Everything
- 13_"Electrification" Is Not What it Once Was
Sarah Deeweerdt
14_Electrify Everything
Pamela Popeson
2025_No Cars = More Space
- 15_End of Cars
Stephen Moss
16_Car Free Zones
Terry Nguyen
2026_Gadgets vs. Connection
- 17_Magic and the Machine
David Abram
18_Evolve or Die
Shane Saunderson and Christophe Bruchansky
2027_A Circular Economy
- 19_Design Out Waste
The Agency of Design
20_Circularity
Nike
2028_Celebrating Inefficiency
- 0021_Bad Metaphore Recharge
Tyler Spangler
0022_On Automation and Free Time
Yuk Hui
2029_How to Fit Into The World
- 0023_Fantasies of Feeling
Sascha Pohflepp
0024_Not This. More That!
Keguro Macharia
2030_Reaching the Impossible
- 25_Trust 2030
Method x Hitachi