Category: development

Technology View mid-2018

2 June 2018

In 2018 you can build your own website in 5 minutes, with no technical skills. You can edit video in your phone. You can do

The Home Project, Berlin

7 August 2014

Walking through Kreutzberg/Neukölin I was drawn to another minimalist window display of an unlit store in a residential street. Like most entrepreneurs of shops with

“To hell with the market” …. visit to my hero F.E. Trainer’s sustainable world

15 June 2014

“Composting and growing carrots is a nice start, but we need to get rid of the growth economy, make the global economic system work to meet needs, and replace capitalism with a different economic system that works for people. Most Green people are stuck at the level of compost heaps, which don’t have a chance of saving us. We don’t want to be a society full of compost heaps heading for disaster. Growing carrots locally is just the first step to changing the economy.”

I want a Lab

30 March 2014

LAB lab A Lab for Interventions, Innovations, Iterations to facilitate: Local Food, Objects, and Quality of Life – Artisan Economics and Meaningful Work – Biospheric

25 ways to spend $25M on a secure future for Goulburn farmers instead of giving it to Coca-Cola Shepparton

1 February 2014

Australia’s state government of Victoria has pledged $25 million in subsidy to Coca-Cola/Amatil to keep the SPC/Ardona produce cannery open in Shepparton. The federal government

Spatiality and consumership

14 January 2013

Exploring Melbourne, we chanced upon a parking lot transformed. The People’s Market in Collingwood opened this December at 64 – 68 Stanley Street as a Thursday-Sunday destination

Vision, story, and the future

5 August 2012

Last night I went to see some art, without knowing the topic in advance. And it was another post-apocalyptic.global-warming theme. It was indeed frightening. (Fake

Technophilic Development

29 May 2008

No one existed for them who could not be governed by their intentions, Patricia Wiliams, The Alchemy of Race & Rights M.I.T. has recently discovered

The Local Objects Manifesto

13 April 2008

I’ve been writing about the ravages of globalization and peoples’ ferocious rejection of its conditions for a long time. I researched and wrote about the

Summary of Gibson-Graham 2006

11 October 2007

J. K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics. 2006: U Minnesota. This book finds a new way of thinking about and working on economic development based on

a law, a city, a citizen

25 April 2007

Being on the Other End(s) of Things… By Amory Starr Progressive Planning: The Magazine of Planners Network Spring 2007 Faith is mad at me today.

13 Myths about Globalization

4 July 2006

13 myths about globalization this is a very simple lecture. it is not about my research. it is a simple summary of the perspective of

critical globalization studies

25 June 2003

this lecture is an introduction to what i call “critical globalization studies”, which reflects the work of an international group of scholars, primarily economists and