We recently connected with Douglas Busch and have shared our conversation below.
Douglas, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.
We had started ecoTECH design studio to bring important sustainable and healthy building techniques as well as organic growing systems www.thefarminabox.com for growing your own food, www.pHLiving.us which was to help the MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity). Our goal and mission was to bring the public ways to improve their and their families lives. We brought in. intern architectural and engineering students from UCLA and USC to work on emergency housing and work on the information sheets for the public. We worked with Menlo Labs (organic food production), Nissan electric vehicle, Rocketdyne on wind turbines, LED manufactures, and on and on. It was a touch road but very rewarding to help people and hopefully help the planet.
Douglas, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
My mission from the days of designing photographic cameras and equipment, healthy housing solutions, organic growing systems, and zero carbon footprints for our housing, etc. I have started two foundations to “Give Back” for the fantastic life I was given. My latest foundation is the Genos Center Foundation with a mission statement:
Our mission is 3-fold.
Our Art exhibitions are curated to encourage questioning of one’s conclusions around culture and society; whether music, film, painting, and/or multi-media exhibitions, we aim to evoke deep feelings of hope, healing, and belonging.
Our educational programs for children and adults are to promote teaching tolerance, love, and the celebration of our shared humanity. We strive to expose and dismantle discrimination.
Our world class landscape and sustainable designs promote communing with nature and giving one a safe environment to encourage interaction and an opportunity to feel, connect, and learn. To reflect on their conclusions around the exhibits and educational discussions.
To create a proactive community that celebrates the diversity and interconnectedness of all individuals, with a special focus on empowering children and unrepresented social groups. By exposing our connections rather than our differences and elevating consciousness to a higher level, we strive to create a world where every person feels valued, understood, and part of a whole.
A short video of Doug discussing the Genos Center Doug: https://youtu.be/jHFSc-fWZw4
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Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
Educating myself to new technologies to enhance my vision. Even when I try a new direction and it does NOT work it allows me to learn and move on in a different direction. Yes, there are disappointments but I never wallow in the mistakes but learn from the mistakes and move in a new direction.
I never want to get stuck in a certain vision and look for ways to keep the execution fresh and always growing.
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
The goal is to stay relevant and create new work whether photography, architecture, or new techniques to move society forward in all directions.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.douglasbusch.com
- Instagram: studiodougbusch
- Facebook: studiodougbusch
- Linkedin: [email protected], [email protected], genoscenter.org, phLiving.us
- Twitter: studiodougbusch, GenosCenter
Image Credits
douglas busch