Literature Review
This literature review provides context for the ongoing community engagement, fieldwork, and scholarly research of the Flaxmobile Project. It draws selectively from The Transition Design 2024 Bibliography, created by Dr. Terry Irwin, a founder of the transition design methodology that guides this project. It also aggregates original research undertaken by the Flaxmobile research team: principal investigator Jennifer Green, and researchers Laura Bucci, Rhonda Ferguson, and Kirstie McCallum. The texts referenced here cover a wide range of topics that can be explored through the hashtags below. Clicking on a topic will allow you to view all the resources tagged under that category.
authenticity
bioregionalism
circular economy
cosmopolitan localism
craft
deep ecology
design
ecology
epistemology
fibreshed
futuring
Indigenous knowledge
labour
leisure
leverage points
local
making
material
material design
methodologies
monoculture
new economy
place-based knowledge
practice-based
resilience
speculative design
sustainability
systems
textiles
transition design
wicked problems