The first comprehensive analysis of water-based infrastructural challenges across the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine river basins provides a uniquely contemporary design-research framework for multi-disciplinary strategies across multiple scales of river basins Reaches a diverse body of audiences, including academic, professional, designers, multiple disciplines, and communities.

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 utilises 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).