David Heeney
David Heeney sees the world as on the precipice of important changes – changes that will be positive if we step up, but could be very negative if as a society we do not address the big, systemic problems or messes that confront us. David is convinced that organizations can make a difference, whether public or private, and loves working with clients who share that vision.
A management consultant for several decades, with training in environmental design, David’s inspiration came from studying Buckminister Fuller, and being a part of the World Game Laboratory. The lab was originally run out of Bucky’s office, and allowed David to work on issues including global food and energy systems, urban agriculture, sustainable transportation plans and the Millennium Development Goals.
David founded IndEco Strategic Consulting in 1994 to provide clients with ways of looking at problems and opportunities as systems, drawing on the tools of INDustrial ECOlogy (the science of sustainability) and strategic planning.
Design Science: Thinking Like a Planet
Journal Article
Design science is different from other problem-solving and planning methodologies in its comprehensive, anticipatory, inclusive, and transparent approaches to the development of solutions. It takes a ‘whole to particular’ approach that is both global in perspective and in its examination of options. It seeks to build capacity rather than merely solve problems and to develop solutions that are transformative rather than merely the reforming of already inadequate systems.