Caroline Leduc

A physicist-turned-farmer is using open source technology for an innovative project that places the power to survive and thrive directly in the hands of every community.

Fearing a future where humans are afraid to experiment, two of the world’s most renowned engineers and inventors are crusading to re-create a culture where science, technology, engineering, and the acceptance of failure is once again appreciated and respected.

Design can help find new solutions for wicked (social) problems. But the power of design is not used to its full potential because it doesn’t get properly connected with the practice of public or private parties involved with the wicked problem.

In Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Taleb gives us a handbook on seeing things coming, by spotting the fragile, and conversely advocating in favor of people, organizations and ways of thinking, that are more than merely robust—they are antifragile.

British author, philosopher and business consultant, Robert Rowland Smith, graciously answers some questions for The Alpine Review and together we discuss philosophy, imagination and ‘endarkenment’.