Gideon Kossoff

Gideon is a social ecologist/social theorist whose research focuses on the relationships between humans and the natural environment and humans and the built/designed world as the foundation for a sustainable society. Gideon served as programme administrator from 1988 until 2007 for Schumacher’s MSc in Holistic Science and developed the extensive library which includes over 6,500 volumes on topics such as Holistic Science, Hermeticism, philosophy/history of science, ecology, environmental psychology, ecological design etc. Gideon studied English and History at the University of East Anglia and spent many years exploring utopianism, history of anit-authoritarian thought and related fields. He is currently a PhD researcher with the Centre for the Study of Natural Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee University. His dissertation is entitled ‘A Holistic Worldview and the Reconstitution of Everyday Life’.

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