Doomsday ChestsProject brief v1.2, 22/07/09 |
"‘Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: Too late.'" - Dr. Martin Luther King Junior |
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Interested benefactors and contributors should contact Noah Raford at nraford <at> mit <dot> edu. Noah Raford is an urban planner and a researcher in organisational change, adaptive strategy, complex adaptive systems theory. He is a former director of the urban design think tank Space Syntax Limited, a consultant on climate change and sustainability with the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, a PhD candidate at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, a research fellow at the LSE Complexity Programme, and a researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute, part of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford, Said Business School. He also consults regularly with the Humanitarian Futures Programme, Kings College London, on long term strategy for crisis management and prevention. A recent presentation by Noah on "Collapse dynamics: Phase transitions in complex social systems" can be found here, which provides background on many of the ideas behind this project.
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