Let us reflect on the City. The urban lifestyle has framed our development and conceived new waves of creativity, culture, and community

With only eight days left until the end of the year, many of us are thinking ahead. Examining the best way forward as we reflect on the challenges we face both in our personal lives and collectively as a society and how our current problems lack precedents for how to solve them. And we know that if we keep pulling from old ways of thinking that we won’t solve the root problem. So, how can we begin to address these wicked problems with new creativity? We need fresh thinking, new ideas, and different ways of seeing.

In 2020, the world shifted. Now we have an opportunity to design the trajectory of where we go from here.

An online course for creators who want to make things more sustainably.

A biomimicry Master Plan for residential development in Vietnam has won an award for best Urban Design (Concept). Rethinking the Future has recently handed out the 2018 awards, which included a first place to the design proposal by B+H Architects and Biomimicry Frontiers. Our design integrated biomimicry principles into the development of a 200 hectare piece of land that existed on a river delta, in the Nhon Trach Province of Vietnam.

Circular economies are not new. My grandpa was an expert in them. But we can also learn from a forest how to be more skillful and strategic in building circularity and creating non-linear systems.