Janis Birkeland

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage, and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to...

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food—at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards...

Sustainable urban planning, policy and design often claim to address sustainability problems, yet they frequently lead to the depletion of resources, degradation of ecosystems, and exacerbate social disparities by concentrating wealth. Positive Development theory argues that development has the potential to generate more net ecological and social benefits than not constructing anything at all. This theory elucidates how current conceptual,...