Builders Collective

Builders Collective

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We are the medium. We are the message. We are the interface. We are a creative, collaborative, self-organizing learning community. We are exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together. We are the builders collective.

Hello World!

My goal for the project would be to document the emerging community as a means to better research and understand how a model for metaphysical gravity could replace the existing model of hierarchical dominance.

Regenerative Future

Regenerative Future

How do we define the different elements of the social system to be designed through the lens of our core values? In a holobiont, we are a host to multiple symbiotic biological communities that require the equilibrium of the relationships of the individuals for the health of the whole.

Design for Resilience

Design for Resilience

My application for the Design Science Studio was submitted on the day of the application deadline on Friday, June 12, 2020. I learned of my acceptance into the Design Science Studio in early August 2020.

Resilience

To become a resilient society, we need to become the heroes and protagonists of a different story. Who are we? We are a builders collective. We are building leaders to design a resilient society.

Resilience Breakout Room

Resilience Breakout Room

What challenges are we facing? How might we reframe some of these challenges? What are the greatest opportunities for the service design community? What role can we play?

Emergency Design Collective

As designers, we specialize in addressing the unknown. We run toward ambiguity – fueled by creativity, and we are wired to ship impactful solutions. We can – and we must – play a role in this critical shift in history.

Bauhaus Movement

Bauhaus Movement

Rethinking the world: founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus intended to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline—a synthesis of crafts and arts.

The Liturgists

A community for people facing difficult seasons in life and transitions in their beliefs, for people who live with uncertainties, doubts, and questions, and for people who are not afraid to face hard topics with honesty.

Rediscovering an Inner Resilience

Rediscovering an Inner Resilience

Wendy Vanguard found new joy by shifting her focus to her family, personal creative projects, and giving back to her community through mentorship. Throughout a lifetime of unexpected turns, struggles, and successes, Wendy rediscovered an inner resilience.

Bold Actions for a Climate Emergency

Bold Actions for a Climate Emergency

The City of Vancouver hosted Bold Actions for a Climate Emergency at the Orpheum Theatre featuring live music, presentations, and personal reflections from experts and thought leaders about the urgency and scale of the climate crisis.

Support Us on Patreon

Support Us on Patreon

Help tell the stories of the invisible creative collective, the builders, who are doing the work of transformation.

A Magazine

We need your help in crafting a different way of living together that does not dehumanize humans.

A Podcast

Welcome to Design for Resilience, a podcast from the builders collective where we explore how we imagine, design, and build the future together. I am Stephen Bau.

Building a Community

Building a Community

The unintended consequences of our designs and our habits might require an acknowledgement of our responsibility to change.