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Anthropologist (PhD), Engineer (PE), Applied Evolutionist, Focused on evolutionary & HCD approaches to built environment & beyond. Views my own. He/him

Aug 19, 2020, 7 tweets

Take note AEC Industry - integrating these principles w/in our own businesses, as well as the design/construction process itself, would go a long way to more effectively addressing the built environment's impact on inequity, health/wellness, & climate change.

As this paper points out, we already integrate individual CDPs under different names w/in our organizations & during design/construction. Ostrom's framework provides a systemic means for more successfully integrating all of them. 2/

#Prosocial

Their implementation can facilitate "companies [becoming] solid citizens that hold each other accountable for contributing to the welfare of society." Arguably this is necessary for addressing the built environment's impact on inequity, health/wellness, & climate change. 3/

I've made the argument for doing so w/in the AEC Industry here: evolution-institute.org/constructing-o… ... 4/

and here: evolution-institute.org/blurring-the-l….

While our industry's efforts to help respond to the pandemic may seem too overwhelming to address anything else, I'd argue that a more effective response actually requires these principles.

Collectively the U.S. has done rather poorly... 5/

in responding to the pandemic. A little more focus on the collective good, on being a "solid citizen," would do our businesses, built environments, and nation, some good.

See also: prosocial.world/prosocial-spir… 6/

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