Small update to bjornrust.com.

Swapped Eleventy/Build Awesome for Zola. Applied OkScheme—a dark, low-contrast colour scheme I've been building with OkLCh. Added links to my now page and digital garden.

Otherwise, I am still striving for an extremely low-carbon footprint, high accessibility, and the privacy of the printed page.

Source: https://codeberg.org/bjornrust/bjornrust.com
OkScheme: https://codeberg.org/bjornrust/okscheme

#zola #oklch #nowpage #sustainability #accessibility #privacy #indieweb

My partner will be co-hosting Seeding Kinships—a series of public lectures and conversations curated by Haenke as part of Free Radicals.

The first session runs from 6–7pm CET today, and the series will continue fortnightly until 31 March 2026.

I encourage you to register: https://freeradicalstoolkit.substack.com/p/seeding-kinships-gather-with-us-for

If you care about democracy and human rights, I urge you to read this resolute yet compassionate piece by my good friend Isabel Medem on the cost of ideological purity eclipsing solidarity.

See: https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/isabel-medem-the-nobel-peace-prizes-difficult-winner/

My partner @linseyrendell and friend @gem, in conversation with LinYee Yuan, explore gardens as sites of care and connection, unruly abundance and collective ownership, rehearsing new ways of being together, building trust and relinquishing control.

Read the whole conversation here: https://thisismold.com/process/gardening-as-a-design-method

#gardening #design #community #resilience

In 2018, I traced Oxfam's journey from war-torn Europe in the 1940s to a global confederation, including its merger with Community Aid Abroad in Australia. This piece—which I am sharing for the first time—explores the organisation's growth, the challenges posed by the 2018 Haiti scandal, and its exploration of distributed ledger technology-based cash and voucher assistance, which I was supporting at the time.

See: https://bjornrust.com/writings/20180811/

#oxfam #humanitarian #aid #blockchain

My brother and I have published a paper in Sustainable Earth Reviews arguing that the 'fail-fast' culture is incompatible with fragile contexts and unfit to address complex global challenges. We need place-based, collaborative innovation embedded in local contexts that draw on emerging social processes and relationships. We also explore inclusive, bidirectional pedagogies that might prepare innovators for new innovation cultures prioritising collective well-being.

See: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42055-024-00089-4

In advance of Dutch Design Week, Linsey Rendell reflects on how design can help reimagine production and consumption to be more sustainable and regenerative. She asks, "What do we really need to live?" if we move beyond ego and prevailing notions of ownership.

See: https://www.designdigger.nl/2023/10/18/creative-voice-3-english-version-design-critic-linsey-rendell-wonders-what-do-we-really-need-to-live/