This is the first and most important categorization M.T.G. In this sense, the four sustainabilities (environmental, social, economic and cultural) are the four interpretations that, in their various combinations, articulate both debates, forums or specialized educational programs and new urban policies through manuals, charts, white and green guides, etc. advocates the inclusion, in this equation, of “the complexity of individuals, their desires and their dreams.” This idea not only clarifies the understanding of social sustainability but forces the emergence of a category by its own that joins the previous triplet: cultural sustainability. Following the “Ecosophy” posed by the French Felix Guattari in The Three Ecologies (1989), M.T.G. adds the component of subjectivity to the expanded and already normalized and regularized understanding of sustainability (by both the EU and the UN): environmental, social and economic. To ensure this holistic and relational vision of sustainable design, M.T.G. argues that sustainable design must have a clear ethical and political dimension, in which both common sense and the sense of the common are essential. understands sustainability as an attitude -and therefore sustainable design as the implementation of that attitude- which embraces description, understanding and projection of reality in an ecological way: i.e., complex, creative and inclusive. In line with the United Nations, the European Union and other global institutions and agencies, we put the cities as our primary context of interest since they are mainly responsible of the problems our planet faces today.įollowing the most advanced policies and current global thinking, M.T.G. To do this, it takes the form of a multimedia encyclopedia of good practices that exemplify and illustrate four interpretations, four work fields and 9 domains from where to practice sustainability in the contemporary city. aims to become a knowledge tool on sustainability in the urban environment and necessarily addressed to a general audience. In collaboration with other professionals and academicians, M.T.G. More Than Green is a research project on sustainability in the large-scale urban environment – mainly the city and the public space – developed through WORKS by PLAYstudio (in the above menu’s left side) or from the selection and cataloguing of case studies in the form of an ENCYCLOPEDIA (in the above menu’s right side).

John gehl