2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future

H is for Human

Designing to “human scale” means design that is optimized for human use. This can apply to any perspective from physical to psychological. It is quintessentially Human Centered Design of urban spaces. Human Scale is the design of physical elements to elicit the best response from human users. At times, this means tools that lead to the most efficient completion of tasks. Other times, it is the design of elements to generate the most positive psychological response. ~ Human Centered Cities Must be Built at Human Scale

Housing

As it is…

I’m watching this real time in Austin as any chance of home ownership is moving further out of reach for local residents as houses become commodities to be traded. Today’s example is not only fiscally out of reach for most people, it’s not designed to be physically accessible, so there is no place for aging or disabled people in this commoditized model:

…as it could be

Imagine, just for a moment, that instead of supporting a system of top-down predatory capitalism that benefited a select group of people & entities, we had a cooperative capitalism model that operated with a long-term vision designed to seed, root, grow and keep sustainable wealth locally. A system that valued the non-monetary…