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.

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Wrestling with Abstraction and Extraction

Itai Palti

Agency & Autonomy, Health & Wellbeing, Place Attachment

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

Ali Estefam

Agency & Autonomy, Place Attachment

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

Anjani Gandra

Agency & Autonomy, Place Attachment

Using Neuro-Architecture to Reinforce Participatory Planning and Design

Gideon Spanjar, Frank Suurenbroek

Agency & Autonomy, Creativity & Expression, Place Attachment

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

Kevin Bennett

Agency & Autonomy, Creativity & Expression

Building Resilience and Inspiring Justice by Design

Ifeoma Ebo

Agency & Autonomy, Safety & Security

Fostering Resilience: Lessons from Life at Sea | The Greenhouse

Luca Tausel

Agency & Autonomy, Connection & Belonging, Safety & Security

The Lighthouse | CCD Relaunch Event

The CCD

Agency & Autonomy, Connection & Belonging, Health & Wellbeing

What if we listened to communities differently? | Lighthouse Talk

Kevin Kimwelle

Agency & Autonomy, Ecological Health, Safety & Security

Navigating Resilience: Insights from The Greenhouse series

Luca Tausel, Marta Delgado

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

Greg Paine

What Do We Talk About When We talk About Democratic Urban Design?

Luis Tsukayama-Cisneros