Tom Snow

Tom Snow
Agence designContext EURL, France · Regenerative Systemic Design

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Introduction
I am working on developing models and frameworks - through theory and practice - to help designers (students and practitioners) involved in the development of systems of production, both to understand, formulate and express how systems of production can learn from, and be coherent with, living systems; and to illustrate the broad range of processes and methodologies that already exist and how they relate to each other.
Skills and Expertise
Innovation
Sustainable Development
Society and Environment
EcoDesign
Remanufacturing
Soil Science
Industrial Design

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FIGURE 2. Trophic relationships between soil food web, plants, organic...
FIGURE 12. Emiliania huxleyi (coccolithophore; photo: Taylor, 2011).
FIGURE 14. Some prominent variations through ecological succession,...
FIGURE 20. Seagrass (Thalassia testudinum König) concentrating...
FIGURE 21. Ecosystem metabolisms and functions model (Snow, 2020).
Ecosystem Metabolisms and Functions: An eco-literacy framework and model for designers
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  • Dec 2020
The framework and model describe ecosystem functions. Working within and towards systems of production that intend to be truly circular and regenerative necessitates that designers (and other stakeholders) have an increased understanding and intuition of how ecosystems function—an eco-literacy. To this end, the framework is based on foundational me...
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FIGURE 1. Ecosystem metabolisms and functions (EMF) model (Snow, 2020).
FIGURE 5. Intervention spectrum for circularity. Original photos from...
FIGURE 7. Bioeconomy: the oldest, foundational economy (original photo...
FIGURE 10. Integrative systems of production (ISP) model (Snow, 2020).
+1 FIGURE 11. Division of production (Snow, 2020).
Integrative Systems of Production: A framework and model for designers, based on ecosystem metabolism and functions
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  • Dec 2020
Different branches of design are shifting from a primary focus on artefacts as ends to concentrating on means (e.g. forms of production), with ends encompassing larger societal goals. Concurrently, humanity is facing an increasingly carbon-and-freshwater-constrained world, combined with escalating realities of climate change and ecosystem degradati...
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