The Monticello Dialogues, Part 5 - Designing Peace with William McDonough

MP3 Download If designing more efficient technology for killing is a signal of the worst of human intentions, what would its opposite look like? - Fierce engagement to wage all-out peace. McDonough looks at how waging peace would change how we approach the natural world, how we use and access energy, dispose of waste, respond to acts of terrorism, and care for our children and for the children of our enemies. In his 20’s William McDonough traveled to the Jordan Valley where he came face to face with the shocking remains of war. He was forever marked by the realization that war is nothing less than the killing of our children. In this program he explores, from a designer’s unique perspective, what the opposite of war would look like. "Violence is antithetical to basic human desire" he says, and he urges a fierce engagement: to wage all out peace. Also in this dialogue: waging peace in Brazil with books, at the headwaters of the Mississippi, in the media, and in the White House. McDonoug