Gideon Kossoff

Gideon Kossoff

U.K.

Teaches Transition Design courses to undergraduates, graduates and PhD students in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1998 to 2007 Gideon was programme administrator and course tutor for the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, where he also managed the College library and built its extensive collection of books, on topics relevant to the emerging ecological world view. Gideon’s research focuses on holism and the tradition of anti-authoritarian social and political thinking. He completed his PhD in design, entitled ’Holism and the Reconstitution of Everyday Life: a Framework for Transition to a Sustainable Society’, at the Center for the Study of Natural Design at the University of Dundee, Scotland. In this, he began the development of the concepts of ‘radical holism’ and Transition Design. His thesis is summarized in an article in the book Grow Small, Think Beautiful edited by Stephan Harding and published by Floris.