Jonathan Crinion at the Teach-in

Jonathan Crinion is president of Crinion Associates, a research, planning and design consulting firm that specialises in complex systems synthesise. The company has won many awards for projects ranging from vertical axis wind turbines to conceiving the original famous 6 metre Open Table concept produced by Knoll, which revolutionised the office work environment globally. In 2006 he created a sailing project with Friends of the Earth to promote the The Big Ask campaign to legislate for CO2 reduction in the UK. Crinions current work uses an Earth systems science perspective to analyse The Automorphosis of Social Ecological Organisational Systems and he continues to explore Creativity: A Social Ecological Approach. Jonathan is an Associate to the Ontario College of Art and Design in Industrial Design, has a MSc in Holistic Science. Jonathan lives in Devon where he is involved in Transition Town Totnes and occasional teaches at Schumacher College.

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Education

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• design
• sustainability
• ecology