The Great Return- Using Natural Design to Have a Healthy World

I have been posting a lot about Public Radio's desire to create a Trusted Space. Here is a series that you may not have seen that I put together earlier in the year that illustrates the context for this.

1. An introduction to Christopher Alexander - The Architect and Thinker who has gone deeper into defining space as a life enhancer than anyone else I know of

2. The Great Return 1 - Paradise Lost - Where I use pictures to define the difference between life enhancing and life degrading space. I show you the difference

3. The Great Return 2 - The Fall - Where I talk about how the great separation from our nature began with the advent of writing, text and then the book

4. The Great Return 3 - The Patterns of Nature -Where we see the truth that all life has ideal patterns that support it best. My point being that there are spaces and organizations that are ideal for human health and life and then there are spaces that we invent because we can

5.The Great Return 4 - What getting it wrong means - I show here the costs of living in less than ideal space and show how health of both body and society degrades when we live in a machine space

6. The Great Return 5 - The Natural Human Organization - I show what the optimal Organization looks like. It is of course the Tribe that uses the limits of Magic Numbers

7.The Great Return 6 - The Way Home - I show how we can get back to the ideal via the social web

 

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