Björn Rust (he/him) is a post-industrial designer, researcher and educator, developing context-sensitive solutions in service of people and the planet.

Recent writings

  1. Place-based innovation for sustainable and resilient human systems
  2. Towards a new political economy for collective well-being through strategic design
  3. Beyond orthodoxy toward design-led economic policy

Writings

  1. Place-based innovation for sustainable and resilient human systems
  2. Towards a new political economy for collective well-being through strategic design
  3. Beyond orthodoxy toward design-led economic policy
  4. Opportunity hoarding
  5. Doing away with bullshit
  6. The course of my life, so far
  7. Zero-sum workforce
  8. Curiosity > Passion
  9. Low-tech, high technique & culture
  10. We Of_Substance
  11. Oxfam Australia—blockade to blockchain
  12. Core houses
  13. Design thinking meets development thinking
  14. Practical quantum computers
  15. The gene-drive
  16. Walkable
  17. Devolution
  18. Humanity in the fourth Industrial Revolution
  19. Animals in Space
  20. Rise of the commune
  21. If you can’t fix it, you don’t own it
  22. Procrastination for creativity
  23. Technology and the empowerment of women
  24. Flipping the script
  25. Call me Trim Tab
  26. The carport for essential living
  27. Democratic design and the environment
  28. Ego depletion and morality
  29. Humans as part of the system
  30. Day of Mourning
  31. Glut
  32. There’s more than one of you in there
  33. A case for cognitive strain
  34. Putting something back into the world
  35. What’s in a name
  36. The influence of IQ
  37. Remembering the last man on the Moon
  38. Emails from a Stoic