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The Living Design
Earth Day 50 Playbook

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Part Four: The Dimension of Thought

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The Living Design Playbook

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Bringing Living Design to Life

Principal Investigator and Author . Douglas Pierce

With assistance by the Perkins & Will Living Design Leadership Council and Design Leadership Council

Phil Harrison Peter Busby Angela Miller
Casey Jones Russell Philstrom Mimi Hines
Yanel de Angel Paula McEvoy Jackson Brantley
Ken Wilson
Kath Wardle
Mary Dickinson

Special thanks to M. Deborah Pierce . AIA Minnesota COTE
The University of Minnesota College of Design . The Minneapolis College of Art + Design

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Earth Day 50 Firmwide Presentation . April . 22. 2020

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Table of Contents

Part One 01 Chapter Intro

02 Chapter Dimensions

Part Two 03 Chapter Elements

Part 1 Narrative
Perspectives
Part Three Part 2 Indicators
Part 3 Prototypes
Techniques
Part 4
Thought
Part 5
Part Four 04 Chapter

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Part Four

The Third Dimension of Living Design:
Thought

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04 Chapter

Thought

The third Dimension organizes your mind
for Living Design

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A Unifying Vision

Living Design in practice:
The 5 interactive elements

Narrative Perspectives Indicators Prototypes Techniques

Story Mindset Benchmarks Palette Method

The guiding Interrelated views Metrics, Measures, New Ideas, Practice, Aptitude,
theory of Living within Living Qualitative Guides
Design(s) Iterations, Patterns, Skills, Approach
Design(s) Examples, Rhythms

Ultimately, Thought influences everything. For Living
Design its primary home is in the Techniques Element,
and a secondary home is the Perspectives Element

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Living Design:
(r)evolution

for a thought revolution about life.

Elements

Living Design:
The 5 thought models.

Living Systems Pattern Integrative Reductive Adapted from Living Design . Doug Pierce

Story Mindset Benchmarks Palette Method

The guiding Interrelated views Metrics, Measures, New Ideas, Practice, Aptitude,
theory of Living within Living Qualitative Guides
Design(s) Patterns, Examples, Skills, Approach
Design(s) Rhythms

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Elements

Living Design:
The 5 thought models.

Living Systems Pattern Integrative Reductive Adapted from Living Design . Doug Pierce

Ecological Interactive Prototypical Recombining Mechanistic

Open, Metabolic, Relationships, Nested, Adaptable, Not either/ or, Differentiated,
Self-producing, Distilled, Linear,
Interdependent Connective, Hidden Replicable, Iterative, It’s Both/ and,
Mechanistic
Influencing Factors Composite Synergistic Diversity

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Living Design: A Thought Revolution Adapted from Transmodern Design By Doug Pierce 2018

Current model

Reductive • Mechanistic

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Living Design: A Thought Revolution New model

Current model

Adapted from Transmodern Design By Doug Pierce 2018

Reductive • Mechanistic Systemic • Living

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Living Design: A Thought Revolution Adapted from Transmodern Design By Doug Pierce 2018

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Reductive • Mechanistic

Socio-Economic System
Purpose

Life • Liberty • Happiness
Members act in self-interest

Guided By
Power • Superiority • Competition

Living Design: A Thought Revolution

The New Future

Current model New model

Reductive • Mechanistic Systemic • Living Adapted from Transmodern Design By Doug Pierce 2018

Socio-Economic System Socio-Economic System
Purpose Greater Purpose

Life • Liberty • Happiness All Life • Enlightened liberty • Happiness
Members act in self-interest Members act in partnership

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Living Design

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Living Design’s Purpose

Create beautiful,
living solutions
that serve the
whole of life.

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Earth
Day, please share some of the design
actions you are taking that respect our
planet, its people and the whole of life.

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