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Vanessa Finney

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Holigent Transition Town Live/Work pedestrian eco-village with a variable economy

Solution
  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Diversity & Cohesion
    • Integral Design
      • Contextualised Design
    • Ecology
      • Green Building
      • Renewable Energy & Transport
      • Seeds, Food & Soil
    • Economy
      • Planetary Boundaries
      • Sharing & Collaboration
      • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Stage:
    • Daring to Act

Build, test and demonstrate all-green self-organized live/work cellular pedestrian communities with hybrid economies and social contracts that will secure quality of life and true systemic sustainability for their residents. To counteract fragmented, Cartesian thinking, social philosopher Nicholas Frank has coined the term Holigent to describe the new qualities that emerge from holistic thinking (holistic-emergent). The blueprint for achieving this is featured in Frank's latest book (April … Read more