DESIGN SCIENCE STUDIO

Featured Interview with Roxi Shohadaee co-founder of the Design Science Studio

Roxi Shohadaee is the Director and ARTchitect of the Design Science Studio, a program of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and habRitual, a decade-long anticipatory art and design-driven accelerator inspiring a future that works for 100% of LIFE. To transform our collective capacity and create a harmonic future we must first envision it. As such, the studio empowers global creators, systems thinkers, organizations and initiatives to imagine, collaborate and create a regenerative future together.

In addition to stewarding the Design Science Studio, Roxi is the Founder and CEO of habRitual: an interdisciplinary experiential design and immersive art studio, creating at the intersection of art, technology and nature to reach, educate, and inspire diverse groups of people.

As an interdisciplinary designer, experiential producer, contemporary artist, and creative doula her mission is to catalyze social and systemic change through inclusive, cross-disciplinary collaborations for the regeneration of our planet and culture. Her path is grounded in a commitment to creating inspiring and embodied ways of learning together. She is a deep believer and practitioner in designing for states of being, having those states of being prime us for connection with ourselves, each other and our beautiful living planet!

Interview with Maxi Cohen & Gina Bria

Maxi Cohen and Gina Bria are collaborating artists with the Design Science Studio combining filmmaking and anthropology to provide new perceptions of water and raise our reverence.

Gina Bria, an anthropologist and author, discovered hydration solutions to modern water challenges while researching desert dwellers. Her first project was to support her elderly mother who was suffering from dehydration in a nursing home. Surprised these natural strategies, confirmed by recent science breakthroughs, were not more widespread, she convened the first TEDx event Bodies of Water, creating 4 TEDxtalks, as well as the Hydration Foundation to spread information on structured water.

Maxi Cohen is an artist, author, and independent film, video, and television director-producer. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Israeli Museum in Tel Aviv.

Tree Tech Book with Umair Zia

Umair Zia is a living-systems technologist, an architect, the founder of naturegadget.com, author of an upcoming book titled,' Tree Tech: 50 Lessons for Life' (Not-a-Cult publishers), and an assistant professor at the National College of Arts, Lahore. TREE TECH | An exploration of the wisdom of the trees in 50 life lessons. Tree Tech is Umair Zia’s personal journey to establish a dialogue with these centuries-old creatures that hold some of the wisest secrets available to humanity.

It’s a thrilling and spiritual quest to understand biomimicry and the ancient technologies that these magnificent beings hold. Tree Tech is an ode to listening to those who were here before us, and will be here after us.

The lessons cover the topics of silence, love, memory, metaphor, death, originality, strength, gender, adaptability, control, consciousness, inclusivity, identity, trust, distance, confrontation, progress, contextualization, alliance, endurance, opinion, resilience, time, movement, action, happiness, feedback, collaboration, self- reliance, permanence, energy, synergy, greed, resources, space, certainty, growth, perception, diversity, land, pattern, knowledge, order, architecture, non-physicality, hierarchy, dependability, belonging, framework and scale.

VISION

We are in a time of radical systems change as Humanity has the potential to realign itself with Nature. The global pandemic is shedding light on over-industrialization, alienation from nature, and othering as some of the primary root causes of global inequality, illness, poverty and environmental degradation.

At the same time it unites humanity as a global community, that can quickly react with purpose to bring forth action, nurturing and generosity. The Design Science Studio will respond to this fragile and transformational moment by ARTiculating the possibility of a healthy world via a decade of non-violent, design-led, creativity-expressed revolution.

The time has perhaps never been more ripe for Fuller’s vision of the Design Science Revolution, in fact it is already firmly underway and this decade of focus will delineate and amplify that path to get us there.

The Design Science Studio will use art across mediums to spark inspiration, conversation, reconciliation, and action so that we may all band together and evolve into a world where all beings thrive.

Regenerating connection with the sacred web of life with Ganga Devi Braun | DSS Interview Series

Ganga Devi Braun is a Regenerative Counselor and Systems Change Consultant who is devoted to integrity throughout the movements for regenerative culture.

With a focus on cultivating collective wisdom, her work weaves together the threads of our internal, interactional, and institutional realities with an aim to move toward a truly regenerative, pluralistic culture which harmonizes with all of life.

The Design Science Studio is a developmental incubator for ART inspiring a regenerative future that works for 100% of life. We are supporting art that empowers global creators to imagine a regenerative future.

Beaming Regenera with Bret Warshawsky

Bret Warshawsky, Concept Architect has spent the past 10 years deeply immersed in the embodied research, design and development of disruptive stories, realities, social architectures and socio-technologies.

Introducing the next stage of social transformation, conscious evolution and social impact entertainment, all rolled up into a genre-busting, super credible, and immersive planetary scale vehicle for the Age of Co-creation.

In Togetherland, there is a central “plot” that revolves around a pioneering group of people who catalyse an evolutionary leap through consciousness; from competition to co-creation, from destruction and war to regeneration and peace, from scarcity and fear to prosperity and love. “Time is Art“.

Art’s critical role in regenerative culture with Amanda Sage

Amanda Sage is an artist driven to contribute to art’s critical role in regenerative culture. She is also passionate about artistic social experiments that explore creative solutionary activism within community.

Amanda Sage is an American painter who has studied and worked in Vienna, Austria and Los Angeles, California. She trained and worked with Ernst and Michael Fuchs, a classical artist who taught her Mischtechnik.

Through Fuchs she came to know other Visionary artists with whom she has worked, exhibited and co-founded the Academy of Visionary Art in Vienna and the Colorado Alliance for Visionary Art.

Sage is a lecturer, teacher, and live artist with works in international galleries and museums.

Regenerative Futurist Ilaria Forte | DSS Interview Series

An unstoppable and uplifting agent of change, inquisitive scientist and anticipatory whole systems philosopher, Ilaria has trained and inspired +500 leaders and managers in over 20 countries, from media to healthcare.

For over two decades, Ilaria has focused on applying scientific discoveries and research insights on developing cross-cultural innovation initiatives, shifting the culture of business from competition to radical cooperation by building capacities to foster a more creative, regenerative, equitable and inclusive world.

Her work focuses on issues of systemic chance, more specifically on how to ignite, manage, promote, and radical transformation and disruptive innovation.Ilaria applies scientific breakthroughs and research insights designing research program’s and change initiatives on multiple levels, from micro to macro level, from large-scale social processes to small-scale interactions.

Meta Modern Game Design with Laurence Currie-Clark

Laurence is a philosopher, artist and infinite game designer seeking the path to Utopia. In other words A Meta Modern Game Designer.

"A renewed ecology of cooperative and competitive play is the key to rejuvenating the tree of collective living, allowing once more the energy of the sun to flow from the highest leaves to the deepest roots, and return flexibility to the calcified boughs and branches of materialistic hierarchy. Around this tree, a new garden of abundance shall grow, giving birth to its greatest fruit: play."

Akiko Ogawa is a multidisciplinary visionary artist

Akiko aka “Kiki” is a visionary artist, entrepreneur and design scientist of the Design Science Studio, and is working on technical grand-scale solutions for a more ecologically-centred and regenerative economy.

She applies biomimicry, uses living systems and complex systems theory as guiding principles for innovation. 

She is working on a project called SeedShare and Hive which is aimed at the ontological design of social networks and platforms to shift civilization from extinction, towards a civilization that thrives with life.

Arts with Ecology with Amber Peoples

Amber Peoples’ inner five year old dancing farm girl teams up with her adult social entrepreneur to amplify curiosity and engage the senses while prioritizing environment, art, and equity.

After a handful of degrees and careers, 2019 saw her teaming up with the tourism industry to create a 10-day, 135 mile celebration of food art and place called Live Culture Coast. In 2020, Amber dove into Copy Accelerator mastermind and Design Science Decade to manifest “Movies that Make Movements.” Now here we are together in 2021, and Climate of AWE: Arts WITH Ecology is ready to roll in like a wave.