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Design by committee - Where project decisions, especially aesthetic ones, are determined and enforced by a group of people, people who may not be qualified to provide input. This could end in disastrous, or unsuccessful results and also not meet the brief or the objective of the project. The reason for the unsuccessful outcome could arise from trying to appease all stakeholders which then turns sometimes into a mess or ends up meaning nothing. However, if we were to give agency to nature, and have nature design for us, what would this look like? Of course, the most obvious is that nature is always “designing” itself and making decisions. But how can we also have them be part of the design process? This is what the more-than-human design framework that is starting to emerge is about.

Most Wanted Paintings http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/rrushing/501/Images/Pages/The_Beautiful.html

Savanna View of the savanna, towards the south-east, photographed south of the Taita Hills Game Lodge, near the eastern boundary of the LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary, in Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#/media/File:Savanna_towards_the_south-east_from_the_south_of_Taita_Hills_Game_Lodge_within_the_Taita_Hills_Wildlife_Sanctuary_in_Kenya_3.jpg By Christopher T Cooper, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20213028

A tree savanna at Tarangire National Park in Tanzania in East Africa

By ProfessorX - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=282227

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#/media/File:Tarangire-Natpark800600.jpg

A grass savanna at Kruger National Park in South Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#/media/File:Savanna_Grasslands_(199168845).jpeg

Hecataeus Map The world according to Hecataeus (500 BC) https://www.grecomap.com/blog/anaximander-hecataeus-maps-and-beyond-566

RIVER DEATH BED - DAMS, play on riverbeds, project around this?

“Mapmaking is a very old trade, but modern cartography originated in the age of European colonialism. Maps were indispensable for ships to navigate the oceans, and they legitimised the conquest of territories.“ - politics of design

“Every map has edges. Every map portrays its limitations. The unmapped spaces daring us to wonder … what lies beyond? To trust a map, we must trust the cartographer. Who draws this map? Who tells this story? Whose perspective is centred? Whose is erased?” (imagine book, slanted)