Assignments – Transition Design Seminar CMU

Transition Design attempts to reveal and map power relations among stakeholder groups in order to: 1) understand which groups have what types of power in the system (sometimes a group has the power/reason to keep the problem unresolved); 2) identify which groups have little power/are disenfranchised (the work is to help build their capacity and giv... See more

Designing interventions within a large, Transition Design project will require transdisciplinary teams working over long periods of time in a co-design process with stakeholders themselves. How can continuity be maintained over long periods of time when actors are continually changing?

TABLE 5-1 Identifying a primarily adaptive challenge Concept Identifying flag Persistent gap between aspirations and reality. The language of complaint is used increasingly to describe the current situation. Responses within current repertoire inadequate. Previously successful outside experts and internal authorities unable to solve the problem. Di

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