Foreword: Dame Ellen MacArthur
In this remarkable book, Michael Pawlyn makes the case for placing buildings and architecture at the heart of a bio-inspired and biomimetic future. It’s more than this, however. A book of principles and action for the twenty-first century, it’s an example of a new lens: a systemic way of seeing which has the potential to enable transition to a world that is regenerative, accessible to all and abundant.
Michael quotes Buckminster Fuller’s ambition ‘to make the world work for a hundred percent of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone’. This is a bold ambition and a question of design and intention, but these alone do not ...
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