Sustainability is…

…indefinable. - Amory Lovins, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute 

....improving the quality of life for all living beings within the capacity of nature to provide that life.

‐ Paul Hawken, Natural Capital Institute,

Founder of Smith + Hawken

Biosphere

Community

Economy

YOU ARE

HERE.

Context

Remembering

(not to scale)(not to scale)

Re-remembering

Re-remembering

Re-remembering

Nature’s character-istics

Diversity

Diversity

Diversity

Interdependence

QuickTime™ and aMotion JPEG OpenDML decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Self-organization

Chesapeake

Baltimore

Local $$

WE HERE,

hon

Context

Discussion Questions

How can design be used to increase, support and celebrate diversity in Baltimore?

Where does design thinking have the potential to solve multiple, interrelated sustainability problems at once in Baltimore?

In what ways can we self-organize to increase our positive involvement in sustainability as designers in Baltimore?