The Centre for Conscious Design

Designing for Life

Agency & Autonomy

The design of places and how they are governed can support autonomy and agency. Models that include communities as integral to the identity and decision-making of shared environments can build successful models for stewardship, and stimulate sustainable development.

Conscious Design Network members with this Focus Area – Browse All Members

Francisco Lasta, OTR/L, Assoc. AIA

700 North Sangamon Street, Chicago, IL, USA

Dr. Manidipa Baruah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Ranjib Baruah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Articles, Videos, and Blog Posts in this theme

Wrestling with Abstraction and Extraction

Itai Palti

Case study: Use of Rapid Ethnographic research for participatory urban design

Ali Estefam

Using Neuro-Architecture to Reinforce Participatory Planning and Design

Gideon Spanjar, Frank Suurenbroek

Human-Centric Architecture and Urban Design. The case of Green Square Library and Plaza, Sydney

Anjani Gandra

Building Resilience and Inspiring Justice by Design

Ifeoma Ebo

Psychological Science on the Eve of the Fourth Transformation: Will Spatial Computing Make Us Better Citizens?

Kevin Bennett

Zuloark | CD Observatory: Co-Design

Sensing Local | CD Observatory: Co-Design

Office for New Earth | CD Observatory: Co-Design

Office for New Earth

Remembering the Sun: Interview with Andres Colmenares on Post-Human Centered Design

Marta Delgado

Navigating Resilience: Insights from The Greenhouse series

Luca Tausel, Marta Delgado

Review: “Places for the Soul: the Architecture of Christopher Alexander”

Greg Paine