How can design be part of a sustainable future?
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About the video: ‘How can design be part of a sustainable future?’
Sim Van der Ryn believes we are witnessing the end of an industrial-mechanical era, in which nature is seen as a free resource to be used without regard for the consequences. What is beginning to emerge, he says, is a new era of ecological design which sees the built environment as an organism or eco-system within a greater whole. He discusses the concept of sustainability and talks about how human civilization might continue to flourish in a more environmentally benign manner.
Total views: 5,320
Filmed: San Francisco, USA on 19 October 2005
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2005 Big Picture TV
About Sim Van der Ryn
Sim Van der Ryn is the President of Van der Ryn Architects, a northern California firm known worldwide for its pioneering work in sustainable architecture.
Van der Ryn was a Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley for over thirty years.
He was also appointed California State Architect by the administration of Governor Jerry Brown, during which time he developed the United States’ first government-initiated energy efficient office building program.
He has written seven cutting edge books, including his latest,”Design For Life” (2006) as well as “Ecological Design” (1996) with Stuart Cowan, “The Toilet Papers and Sustainable Communities”(1986) with Peter Calthorpe.
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