Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture : 9781940743592 : 09 Nov 2023 : Way Beyond Bigness is a design-research project that studies the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine river basins, with particular focus on multi-scaled, water-based infrastructural transformation. The book proposes a simple, adaptive framework that utilizes a three-part, integrative design-research methodology, structured as: Appreciate + Analyze, Speculate + Synthesize, and Collaborate + Catalyze. To do such, Way Beyond Bigness realigns watersheds and architecture across multiple: scales (site to river basin), disciplines (ecologists to economists), narratives (hyperbolic to pragmatic), and venues (academic to professional). The research critiques and recasts Oxford Dictionary's two very different definitions for a ?watershed?: 1) ?An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas" and 2) ?An event or period marking a turning point in a situation in a course o