What if we treated our home as more than a machine for living?

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“A house is a machine for living in.” ~ Le Corbusier

In 1927, Le Corbusier changed the way we designed modern life - and modern homes - with his architectural manifesto that celebrated the age of the machine. A century later we need a new vision for the way we live: one that celebrates the relational as much as the rational, and treats our shared home as a living body instead of a machine for living.

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A library of creative projects from a growing field of designers, creative practitioners and decision-makers integrating the rational with a more relational, full-bodied creativity to shape life-giving possibilities.

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An evolving curation of thought leadership, cultural happenings and creative inspirations exploring the potential of relational, full-bodied knowing and life-giving possibilities.

View fullsize Superradiance by @memo_akten and @katie_hofstadter explores how we feel our interdependence with the world around (and in) us. We love how they use emerging technologies as tools to help us feel the embodied, emotional and ecological dimensions of h
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View fullsize From the Scientific Enlightenment to the Industrial and Digital Revolution, our species has steadfastly cemented us within a Rational Worldview. We objectify and mechanize almost every aspect of our daily existence and treat the world as inert and ex
View fullsize World renowned biologist and tree expert, @davidgeorgehaskell has long been an inspiration to us, not only for his bestselling books, such as “The Songs of Trees” and “Sounds Wild and Broken”, but for his pioneering voice on s
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View fullsize More streets, buildings and bodies of land and water around the world are named after Alexander von Humboldt than any other person. Yet why have many of us never heard of him? To understand the legacy of the great Prussian naturalist, explorer, and g
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View fullsize Throughout this year, we’ve been following the work of @hkw_berlin and its new director, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. As Germany’s main modern ethnology museum focused on non-European art, cultures and societies, we were intrigued by N
View fullsize “I’d like to help people understand they’re part of something much bigger,” says visual artist Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian. Shiny Gold, the immersive installation-experience she created for @gaitelyrique last year, aimed
View fullsize “Recent research shows that the Earth may be home to a trillion different species, yet our consciousness as architects and urban designers and planners is ecologically one-dimensional.” - Deema Assaf After working as an architect for mor
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View fullsize Much of “green” architecture prioritizes the material and functional properties of sustainability, through low-carbon, bio-based, non-toxic and locally sourced materials and highly efficient mechanical systems. But beyond form and functio