Explore mode

Explore sustainable pathways through the industrial landscape

This section expands on the ideas presented in Discover mode for applying sustainability principles in the context of an industrialised, resource-intensive economy.

Featured content will help shape and test different approaches, assess their benefits and demonstrate how they may work in practice.

Explore the Sustainable Mode framework

Modes are the technology conventions adopted to meet the housing, mobility and other socio-economic needs of the global human population. Today's mode standards are the sophisticated products of extensive innovation and a vast array of complex, disparate industrial processes that few can name let alone explain.

Anatomy of a Mode

The Anatomy of a Mode project explores the mode system concept by analysing mode characteristics and varieties. Taking inspiration from biology and other scientific disciplines, the project is currently plotting mode species trees and profiling the anatomical make-up (attributes) of member "species" (generic mode types).

View this section for an outline of different mode-types and their relations using interactive profile cards positioned side-by-side for ease of comparison.