Holistic DesignProf Liam Ream, AIA

Holistic living means you have balance in all areas of your life, including health, relationships, career, finances and spirituality.

Holistic health focuses upon nutrition, exercise, sleep patterns and overall wellness (body, mind and spirit).

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-wellness.htm

Holistic doctors may be trained practitioners in one of several holistic remedies, or licensed medical doctors who have obtained further education to practice holistic medicine. There are a wide range of holistic treatments, including acupuncture, aromatherapy, therapeutic massage, and meditation. The main principle behind most holistic approaches is to treat the entire person, meaning the physical body as well as the emotional well-being of the patient

Holistic architecture is designing a home or business incorporating my unique design elements; environmentally sustainable/green products and energy/physics into a cohesive wholeness to produce a physical, spiritual and emotional well-being into the design/ home/business.

So… what is “Holistic Design?”

Holistic Design is best simply described as “designing for appropriate fit and vibrant health within the whole of life and being.”

It is you becoming conscious of every thing and every system -knowing how it affects you and you affect it. Such awareness can only be striven for... “perfection”, as believed by most people, only exists in the divine.

It is the gradual realization that “you” are more than your body, mind & heart… that you are part of an interconnected whole. As the body values any one of its parts, you are valued. It is not complete without you; you are not complete without it.

What is the secret formula for “success?” What does it mean to “win?”

happiness

fame

money

Well, kinda…

WTF? This is intense! … & seriously cool.

Lawrence & Anna Halprin. Pioneers in Landscape Design & Dance.

“The most important thing about designing is to generate creativity in others, and to be inclusive – to include the needs and experiences of people interacting with the environment, and to let them be part of its creation.”

“We have emerged from nature and we are her children… thus we maintain a kind of typical Love-Hate relationship with her — like a teen-age child we need the security of her warmth, the stability of her as a source and at another moment we want to be free and on our own and left loose of her disciplines.At times we have courted her, at times defied her —mostly taken her for granted as the stable source which would forever nurture us and keep us going.

That seems finally not to be inevitable…we have begun (I hope deeply enough) to finally realize that this root source is in fact in jeopardy and that by our actions we are permanently destroying her.”

“Notebooks 1959 to 1971,” Lawrence HalprinSketches courtesy of Lawrence Halprin, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania

http://www.landscapeonline.com/research/article/12990

happiness

recognition

natureservice

creativity

money

pleasure

fame

money

evolutionary stimulus

I’m all about this now!

stim·u·lus noun1. A thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue.2. A thing or event that rouses activity or energy in someone or something; a spur or incentive.

synonymsincentive - spur - impulse - incitement - fillip

old life view… “model”

new model

Is this it?

Table Exercise #1: Draw your “pie.”

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Holistic Assessment:Needs

Impact: Partners & employees dress/confess to high/low points… established by real measurements. Outcome: team knows who is strong/weak for tasks: sales, client mtgs, creative, problem resolution… Evidence (per NPR): “Biosensors in clothing are coming to benefit both employee and employer.”

Holistic Assessment:Performance

1870 – Amelia erects a two-room brick schoolhouse

2010 – Amelia opens a LEED Silver school for 745

Did I make a difference? Yes, but…

“You are correct in saying that I would be better applied to a strategic nature

of work. I look to such a position with a very creative, multi-disciplinary,

ecologically-minded organization… focused on the world market.”

Holistic World Views / Organizational Systems• Feng Shui & I Ching – China• Vastu Shastra – India• Medicine Wheel – Native American

Feng Shui HomeLiam Ream, AIAWatch Hill, Newport, KY

MANDALA

Dwell Magazine Competition

“Acre Mandala”Liam Ream, AIA2009

Basel Convention Center—New HallHerzog & de MeuronBasel, SwitzerlandImage courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron

RMIT Design HubSean Godsell ArchitectsMelbourne, AustraliaImage courtesy of Sean Godsell Architects

Photos © Earl Carter

Sony Corporation’s Osaki New BuildingNikken SekkeiTokyoDiagram courtesy Nikken Sekkei

“Stillsuit” David Lynch, 1984Costume design for the movie 'Dune.'

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CulturalAffordable

SustainableSafe

Long-term Development Strategies for Haiti

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“Studio” modelAtelye = “Workshop”

Bonus: Multi-Cultural

Bonus: Multi-Gender

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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.“

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“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Scale a Height; Get a GripFlesh & earth… our birthright, our heritage, our commonality!

Measured Resource; PackagingWeighted quantity… scaled abundance… unit by unit… day by day…

Intend it; Tamp it; Firm itApplying the fires of will & labor; fighting earth with earth.

Build a Team; Build a BuildingAn exercise in unskilled labor (pure compassion meets pure need).

Libage & Libète; Bound & FreeThis element, along with the solidity of the walls, did most to create trust.

Complexion, Complexity, CompletionWhat the hand fails to touch & perfect, the mind perceives as “less than.”

Table Exercise #2: Draw the customer’s “pie.”

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The Royal Society of the Arts (www.thersa.org/) Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of seventeen bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages and are used in thousands of universities, corporations and government agencies around the world.

Sizing up our Planet

@ 101, you kick the ball to Pomodori’s Pizzeria ;

(.249 or a quarter mile)@ 102, you kick the ball thru the goal post at Paul Brown

Stadium (2.49 miles)@ 103, you kick the ball to “Touchdown Jesus” site along I-75N

(24.9 miles)@ 104, you kick the ball just past Cleveland or Nashville

(249 miles)@ 105, you kick the ball to Central America (Venezuela /Columbia)

(2,490 miles)@ 106 , your ball orbits Earth and lands just behind you

(24,901.5 miles)@ 107 , on just the right dates, it plunks down on the Moon

(249,015 miles)

If you kick a 43.8 yd field goal, that’s .0249015 miles…

Consciousness of Self

Broadening Your Range

Consciousness of Other

Are “good” neighbors only those that don’t frighten me?

Won't you be my neighbor?2490.1 mile range1/10th the way

18,000 naked Mexicansgathering at Zocalo Square

Mexico Cityscary ?

(not scary, eh?)

Consciousness of Culture

Mali, Moscow, Hawaii, Sao Paulo

Together & alone, abundance & scarcity…how & where do I

contribute?

4980.3 miles (2/10ths)

Consciousness of Condition

How “dirty” is my footprint?

Buoyant or Bogged? 7470.5 miles (3/10ths)

Collective Consciousness

9960.6 miles (4/10ths)

Utopias & Dreamtime

“the Alice” - Mparntwe to its traditional inhabitants of 20,000 yrs - the Arrernte. They believe that every person’s

essence exists eternally in the Dreaming.

Are there metrics for paradise?

“Bio-Sphere” Consciousness

12450.7 milesYou made it!

The time factor…

Seasons of Nature

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

Albert Einstein

Seasons of Self

Let’s make these moments count!

Are you truly assisting others in realizing their dream broadcast?

Are you realizing or sacrificing your own dream broadcast?

What funding & networking resources can we share?

Table Exercise #3: Draw the world’s “pie.”

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