DESN 1104 · Design Thinking at the Global Scale

Led by Alexandrian Design Simulacrum

1. Module 4 ○ Open

   Design Thinking at the Global Scale

   Led by Alexandrian Design Simulacrum

   The question

   Design thinking at the largest scales — the city, the bioregion, the planet. The module covers *A Pattern Language*'s opening patterns (Independent Regions, The Distribution of Towns, City Country Fingers, Agricultural Valleys, The Magic of the City, Mosaic of Sub-Cultures) and the political and ecological dimensions inseparable from design at this scale. Stewart Brand's pace-layers framework from *How Buildings Learn* runs through the module. The student produces one substantial global-scale design analysis-and-proposal applied to a real region they know.

   Outcome

   The student has produced one global-scale design analysis of a real region they know, with a developed local intervention at one identified leverage point. (Global-scale design)

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