Ecological thinking promotes a way for the brain to think differently from what people are used to. It usually combines aspects of nature to produce a more circular way of thinking instead of the everyday, linear thinking. Using the example of the walking tree as Mitchel Resnick had said, thinking ecologically is like brainstorming – outputting many different ideas to a specific topic then eliminating those that are not needed, leaving with the “best” choice.
Remembering the chart we filled out in class, ecological thinking was served as the “middle ground” or the “gray areas” between critical and creative thinking. So to say, ecological thinking has no definite black and white areas nor does it have “right” or “wrong”. It is always somewhere in between, balancing the way our brain process ideas.
Works Cited
- “What is ecological thinking?”
<https://mpm17fall2009friday.wordpress.com/> - McDonough, William. “Talks William McDonough on cradle to cradle design.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. Video. February 2005. Ted Conferences, LCC. 22 September 2009.
<http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design.html> - Resnick, Michael. Thinking Like a Tree (and Other Forms of Ecological Thinking).
<http://llk.media.mit.edu/courses/readings/thinking-like-tree.pdf> - Interview with I. Cameron
- “Ecological System.” 2003. Carnegie Mellon University. 23 September 2009.
<http://telstar.ote.cmu.edu/environ/m3/s5/index.shtml> - Smith, Richard Currie. “Ecological Epistemology.” Slide Share. PowerPoint presentation. 2007. September 22 2009.
<http://www.slideshare.net/richardcurriesmith/ecological-epistemology-intro-2-12-08> - Code, Lorraine. Ecological thinking the politics of epistemic location. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
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