{"product_id":"9781915609816","title":"The Circle and the Sphere","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA future for the design practices that works within the living and intelligent design of Earth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn a spring afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, standing against the concrete and glass backdrop of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, Karenna Gore addressed a graduating class of future architects, landscape architects, design engineers, and urban planners and designers. Gore, a professor of earth ethics whose work hovers around the intersection of values, faith, and ecology, could seem an unexpected fit as the messenger of parting wisdom to a group of designers. But she begins her speech by foregrounding the shared task of facing a climate crisis that continues to threaten life and systems on Earth in new and increasingly erratic ways, and encourages a future for design that lies in learning from the natural world. Calling on figures as varied as theologian Thomas Berry to landscape architect Kate Orff, Gore suggests this multidisciplinary Earth-centered approach could not only be benefical to design thinking but integral to it. “It is not Earth that needs fixing,” she said. “It is us.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karenna Gore","offers":[{"title":"MIT Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-07-28","offer_id":47340772163839,"sku":"9781915609816","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/9781915609816.jpg?v=1775581172","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781915609816","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}