Architecture and planning, ideally, supports a great diversity of integrated human activity. Stanley's
co-design is about sensitively inquiring into a citizen's round of life and their desired environmental stimuli. As an educator, I help youth respond to their environment by experiencing it as organisms within a living ecological system.
Together, we are currently developing methods to fine tune the connection between
ecology and co-design. I prepared some graphics to illustrate some ecological principles for teens so that codesigning their environment can be a part of their ecological education. Some basic ecological concepts are illustrated below.
