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What a lot of new technologies really need is simply large amounts of clean heat and power.

This is often the situation at the start of a design project.Often called pre-project, this could be a time for exploration, broad thinking, analysis and imagination, however often it’s a time for reductive thinking.

I have been in design meetings at these early stages where discussions are happening about what might be on the first, second or third floor of a building.This is before the requirement for a building, let alone a building of a number of stories, has been established.Although, there is a good chance some sort of building will be required, the speed with which the teams grasp onto the physical and the detail is astounding.

In tandem with the physicalisation of a building is the push to attach a capital cost to this now crystalised construction.What has disappeared and often is lost forever is the purpose and value of the project.

If we could live with not-knowing, if we can weather uncertainty then we can find better outcomes..

The horrific experiences of two people in the 20. th.The results are the opposite to what we expect.. You can see this all around us in the season of festivities.

We all have our own playbook, a list of traditions, menu, set of rituals.If doing these things doesn’t make everybody happy we just need to do more of them, try harder, and put more effort in.. We get caught in the Devil’s Snare.. As Hermione Granger knew, the alternative is to stop struggling and bring light to where we are.

One of the play-on-words used by counsellors is not to say “Don’t sit there, do something” but to say “.Don’t do something, sit there.