![]() Learning to think in terms of living systems, physical and mental, and substituting the iceberg metaphor-in-use in conventional systems thinking with a holistic metaphor of nested leverage points are the first transformation steps toward a new sustainability paradigm. Transformation needs us to see and reconceive the human–world bond through the systemic lens of dynamic inclusion, aliveness, purpose and value. The fundamental outcome of this conceptual study is that unsustainability roots in a cognitive illusion coupled to a lack of teleological thinking. It targets Meadows’ deepest leverage points of purpose and paradigm beyond, it deals with worldview, core metaphor, and human thinking. The paper focuses on the often unquestioned, largely unconscious, systemic realm of mental models and human intent. Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, 2008). What does transformation of human systems for sustainability exactly mean and entail, and how to effectively transform human systems? This paper addresses these essential questions in a holistic, systems thinking approach following and extending the leverage points tool for systemic change proposed by Meadows (Thinking in Systems: a primer. Coping mechanisms like addictions or denial can be easy to seek out to soothe upset feelings, but this paper argues that to truly re-regulate, true emotional expression of grief followed by mindful equipoise would be more desirable, both for healing ourselves and for healing the planet.Ĭhange and transformation of human systems are increasingly seen as the fundamental solution space for treating the root causes of unsustainability. Societally, our level of current dysregulation and dissociation can be seen from the way we treat the indigenous and natural world. ![]() These states are borne from both direct climate crisis and indirect ‘eco-anxieties’ emanating from the mere fact of impending climate change. Equally, mental health, envisaged also using a resilience (or ‘Window of Tolerance’) framework, is affected by climate change – tipping people from a steady to dysregulated state of emotionality. Climate change, as is occurring under ‘business-as-usual conditions’, is likely to breach the resilience of the Earth System (ES), tipping the world into ‘Hothouse Earth’. This paper traces the connection between ecological change and mental health, arguing that both are seeing increasing dysregulation. Resilience is a concept relating to a system’s ability to ‘bounce back’ from disturbance and can be conceptualised as the boundaries (or thresholds) around an equilibrium state. Finally, this paper discusses the prospect ofīiomimicry for building resilient and sustainable futures, linking biomimicry to the concept of ‘resilient design’. It presents main points which make Biomimicry a substantial set of ideas that can lead to product and material innovation and a paradigm shift in design, and explores different perspectives to provide theoretical frameworks to the discipline. ![]() ![]() This paper explores the emerging discipline of Biomimicry as both an evolutionary and revolutionary step for design and a necessary path to a sustainableįuture, from an epistemological standpoint, within a paradigm model. We can learn from nature not only how to design better materials and artifacts, but also how to design better processes, systems and conducts that lead to better behavioral patterns. Natural systems are the playground for an astonishing amount of living forms in perfect balance with natural forces, living in a network of mutualism and synergy, in a sort of perpetual cycling loop. Biomimicry inspires designers to learn from nature rather than use it as resource for materials and disposal. In this context the discipline of Biomimicry emerges as a response and a new design paradigm, and can be a powerful tool forĭesign for sustainability, and furthermore, for ‘resilient design’. The paradigmatic situation in which the design disciplines are immersed as part of the human-driven global crisis – environmental, social and economic – demands responses coming from innovation and radical change.
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