Deep Design

This note aggregates ideas about deep design as an integrative practice of Deep Design Lab.

• It is easy to contribute because the situation is so bad
• It is not necessary to wait for a comprehensive solution when one can make ready local improvements
• Thoughts about better futures, however utopian, are a blueprint for living now
• Sometimes it is better to act slowly and not to act at all but slow action and the lack of action are actions too

Key Positions

Animism, philosophical animism.

"As a Philosophical Animist, I argue that this is doublethink, and that we do have to take the intentional stance quite seriously for non-humans. We will lose the justification for empire—an empire of growing human, cultural and biological poverty—but can open another door to a richer world, and can begin to negotiate life membership in an ecological community of kindred beings. This is a better rationality."

Plumwood, Val. “Nature in the Active Voice.” Australian Humanities Review 2010, no. 46 (2009): 111–28.

Rose, Deborah Bird. “Val Plumwood’s Philosophical Animism: Attentive Interactions in the Sentient World.” Environmental Humanities 3, no. 1 (2013): 93–109. https://doi.org/10/gf6z67.

Biophyscism cf. Sentience