John Thackara

John Thackara|Essays

Tools for Sustainability: Sao Paulo Workshop [December 2007]

Report on the Doors of Perception workshop in Sao Paulo, the Dott 07 manual, the Dott podcast, tracking travel carbon emissions, the UK's NAtional Endowment for Scient Technology and the Arts (NESTA), and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Better Lives With Less Stuff [October 2007]

Report on the "Wouldn't it be great if…" Dott 07 debates, Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, Rick Bookstaber's A Demon of Our Own Design, Core77's Hack2School special, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Dott Debates Announced + Custard Pies [August 2007]

Report on the Dott 07 debates, the debate on transport and tourism, design and sexual health, Dott 07's Alzheimer 100, food systems, and more.

John Thackara|Interviews

Design for (Im)mobility: Interview with Domus

John Thackera defines and explains the importance of ethnoecology.

John Thackara|Essays

How High Is the Climate Change Bar? [July 2007]

Report on Public Available Specification (PAS), resource wars, slow trade, sustainable tourism, Jan Chipchase's thoughts on mobile essentials, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

What Will Sustainable Tourism Be Like? [May 2007]

Report on Mapping the Necklace in Durham, the Dott Design Camp, the second meeting of Doors 9, the Picture House exhibition in England, Creative Communities, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Food Systems: The Design Agenda [April 2007]

Report on Doors of Perception "Juice," David Kester's parliamentarian brief, Torin Geodesign, Dwell on Design: The Intelligent House, Dott's Explorer's Club, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Special "Do It" Edition [February 2007]

Report on the Doors of Perception 9 conference, accountability of politicians to recognize sustainable regions, the Necklace Park, the Dott 07 student design challenge, Dott 07 design camp, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Global Place — Or is it a Hat?

We must view the world with a new slant and take advantage of a huge design opportunity to create sustainable structures for the future.

John Thackara|Essays

Mapping the Necklace [January 2007]

Report on Doors of Perception conference "Juice: Food, Energy, Design," global food systems, Mediawalla Festival (MWF), Dott 07, the Move Me! project, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Stern, Monbiot, and the Tasks of Design [November 2006]

Report on global food systems, George Monbiot, climate change economics, the competition to design a stuff-o-meter, the problem with new flatscreen TVs, and more.

John Thackara|Essays

Juice, Fat, and Homeland Security [October 2006]

Report on Doord of Perception scholarships, Dott 07 schools projects, Joe Heapy's Journey to the Interface, the Dott 07 stuff-o-meter competition, McDonald's scannable food, and more.