Isaac Edmonds

Isaac Edmonds is a Canadian Architect living in Finland. Attending an architecture school with a tri-cultural mandate and close ties with local indigenous communities has led him to pursue academic and workplace opportunities focused on community-driven projects, holistic building life cycle assessment and design for disassembly.

Isaac Edmonds in Kosmos

Rethinking Progress | Forming the Right Questions

What are the fundamental questions that humans alive at this particular moment in time should ask of themselves? What conjectures should we spend time pondering in order to realize a framework by which we may live hopeful, meaningful lives in the Anthropocene? By finding the right questions, we can inoculate ourselves to despair and focus our energy on the more productive pastures of vision and method.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 6

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,