The Living Ideas Library
Curating the ideas, knowledge, and data needed to create a world supporting the whole of life through vision, poiètics, ecology, and community.
Video Library
Featured Videos and Dropdown Stacks of C3LD Curated Video Playlists
Featured Video
Cabrera Labs at Cornell University shares their perspective on Mental Models and Systems Thinking in this award winning 10 minute video.
Systems/Living Systems Thinking is an arena of thought with notable breadth and depth. This is one, informed and well researched perspective on the subject. It is primarily a mechanistic view compared to a living view
Video Catalog
Organized by the Universal Modalities of Life and Living Systems.
The Universal Modes are five core modalities that describe how life, living systems, and creative processes perceive, make meaning, act, form relationships, and take shape. Developed through interdisciplinary practice, academic instruction, and reflective scholarship, the Modes express a deep pattern recognized across ecology, systems science, design theory, and the study of living systems. They are not rigid categories, but recurring, generative movements that appear consistently across creative, ecological, and cultural contexts.
Through these Modes, the Library Catalog unfolds, placing each resource in the modality where it can be most alive and useful.
Catalog
Perspectives
Story
Methods
Patterns
Attributes
Articles Library
Featured Articles and Dropdown Stacks of C3LD Curated Written and Graphic Materialé
Featured Article
Our C3LD curated Feature Article by @Clayton_dorge is posted in memory of the late architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander. His University of Berkley team published “A Pattern Language” and “The Timeless Way of Building” in the late 1970’s. The work is essential inspiration for Living Design.
Pattern Language is landmark Systems Thinking for the built environment and beyond. It is the go-to framework for computer architecture and object oriented computing. Graphic adapted from @apatterntolearn X.com
The Article Link includes a list and short-summary for each of Alexander’s 253 ground breaking patterns.
Articles Stack
The C3 Living Design Article Stack is new as of late summer 2024. We’ll start by populating the stack with selected articles, graphics and other Living Design Materialé that is not a video. After we have about 15-20 articles posted we will categorize them and start an organized stack based on the C3LD categories.
Quick Links Library
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The Transformative Perspectives of
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ECOLOGY
Resilience ⋅ Regeneration
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POETICS
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EQUITY
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WELL-BEING
Health ⋅ Harmony ⋅ Holism
Balance
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