Design ideas for a better world.

The design of money

The design of money

Money is so present that we tend to forget that its conception, creation, distribution and use are not immutable and fatal facts, but choices of civilization. I have been working on this subject and experimenting with money for more than 6 years now. And I…

Proposals to improve the patent system

Proposals to improve the patent system

Patents are old. They were already in use in the 13th century. The principle itself didn't change much, apart from the international scale of its application. But it now slows down innovation a lot. It is the Anglo-Saxon culture that has most widely systematized the…

Are anthroposophy and biodynamic agriculture synergetic?

Are anthroposophy and biodynamic agriculture synergetic?

On the left, the Goetheanum (world center of anthroposophy, in Switzerland); on the right, Rudolf Steiner, founder of the movement This philosophy, established and developed by Rudolf Steiner in 1912, is distinguished from its relative, theosophy, by its more Western inspiration. The basis of the…

How to deal with the famine to come?

How to deal with the famine to come?

Just because my work focuses on synergetic solutions, sometimes fully functional only after several years, does not mean that I fail to keep a close eye on world events. For the possibility of creating and promoting synergetic design depends first of all on our ability…

Technolucidity: where Amish are right

Technolucidity: where Amish are right

The fact is, as previously said in my article about monotropic capitalism, the aim for control over reality and people regularly give birth to insane ideas and insane programs (whether political or commercial). Do we really need a TV, a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop…

Monotropic capitalism

The dead end of monotropic capitalism

Monotropism is the tendency to focus on only one thing, one approach. This term is used in biology and psychology. It comes from "mono", that means "one" and "tropism" that means "way" or "manner". What I call monotropic capitalism is the paradigm of thought that…

Electroculture and the properties of trees

Electroculture and the properties of trees

Negative impacts of common artificial electromagnetic waves Electromagnetic waves can have a positive or negative impact on living organisms and their growth, health, longevity and productivity. Several scientific studies have identified possible consequences of electromagnetic waves on living organisms: studies on bees : https://www.jscimedcentral.com/Behavior/Articles/behavior-2-1010.pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.485.5704&rep=rep1&type=pdf…

What is synergetic design?

What is synergetic design?

Synergetic design is a way of thinking and creating things that are themselves (by their origin, their existence and their end) the most satisfying experience possible. The aim is to obtain the most desirable effect possible while making the most desirable effort possible. But the…