Shane Austin

Learn. Envision. Create. Observe. Grow.

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.”

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

Reading David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” & found this provocative—“great embarrassing fact…haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft” https://t.co/kXcii3xRTu

[CircularDesignOK @CircularOk]

Co-creating opportunities for transformation. Conversations for a Flourishing Okanagan on November 3rd.

Sign up at https://t.co/fkhWx5NSlC

Read reflections on the first Community Conversation https://t.co/08JDvIcu8K

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

Curious about how to create meaning rich conversations? I'm inspired to design better conversation spaces after reading ‘Better Conversations: A Starter Guide’ (PDF): https://t.co/SmkTMhMHKI #communication #mentalhealth #conversation #dialogue

[CircularDesignOK @CircularOk]

Join Okanagan Circular Society in community dialogue as we explore the questions on everyones’ minds & co-create next steps needed to advance social and economic transformation in the Okanagan region.

👉 https://t.co/yaXc2yBHJx

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

#WCEF2021 is LIVE until the 15th, with several world renown speakers in systems change, biodiversity, fashion, technology, design and more.
This year’s Forum is focused on the system-level changes needed to accelerate the move to #CircularEconomy.
https://t.co/MzJLi4Nyfz

[CircularDesignOK @CircularOk]

3 days packed with information, ideas and examples of the circular economy!

WCEF2021 will focus on the system level changes, or “game changers,” needed to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

https://t.co/yMFCBXBtNH

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

I'm an organizer of two large Meetup groups with over 3000 members, but both have surprisingly low activity despite regular posted events.

Curious to know, who uses Meetup? What was your initial interest in joining? Are you still active? Why or why not?

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

Relearn & apply nature’s rules to design. Not simply vernacular design, but understanding how nature does things, what processes/structures exist already in nature, and an assessment of how these processes/structures can be valuable to the built environment.

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

By taking a deeper look at nature — how plants and animals adapt to circumstances, and the elements of the bodies that allow them to thrive — we can be inspired to design and organize our worlds to emulate what makes them successful. https://t.co/lJ6UTeRTwx

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

Questions on my mind:

What does this mean for designers of these systems, experiences, and products?

How can we use biomimicry to future-proof our innovations?

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

“Intelligence can be seen as a multi-dimensional web of cognitions [...] an “ecosystem of thinking”. This counters a human-centric way of understanding of intelligence and human supremacy – the flawed idea that we are earth’s superior species.

https://t.co/qrvE9fuwXZ

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

@mijustin Love this! Reminds me of Einstein's creative technique, 'Combinatory Play'. https://t.co/f1uMOWH4AH

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

What are the core questions that will help us navigate the landscape of #circulardesign?

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

I'm honoured to be hosting this conversation with the Okanagan #Circular community.

[CircularDesignOK @CircularOk]

#CircularDesignOK - Episode #1 Getting Started

In our first session, we'll learn about circularity, systems, design, mindsets, and areas of practice.
https://t.co/ayvJsBLIj3

#circulareconomy #systemsdesign #sustainability #OKGNtech

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

To me resiliency isn’t a state, it’s a practice. To know you are whole and enough—yet still observing, aware of, and responsive to your environment.

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

The complexity of both #mentalhealth and #climatechange means that tackling the two together requires a “systems thinking” approach. [...] taking in complex set of interacting factors – geopolitical, socio-economic, ecological and environmental [...]

https://t.co/Vh6XNd0TFd

[Shane Austin @scdaustin]

“A city is a machine, a city is an animal, a city is an ecosystem.” But the really dangerous one [...] is to equate cities with computers. “A lot of more computational and data-driven ways of thinking about cities give a false sense of omniscience,”

https://t.co/gwVEMo2MeQ