Transitional Design
Try to imagine interventions at the macro, mezzo and micro levels of scale. How could they be interconnected for greater leverage?
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Try to think of both material and non-material interventions; some interventions might involve new technologies, new narratives/communications, new policies etc., while other interventions might involve changing behaviors, practices, assumptions, cultural norms or even worldviews (non-material). For non-material interventions, how can Transition De... See more
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
systemic oppression manifests on four systems levels: The Individual, The Interpersonal, The Institutional and The Structural
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
. The MLP provides a radically large, spatio-temporal matrix within which to frame a problem and consider both the material (artifacts/processes/guidelines/ policies/technology/environmental factors etc.) and the non-material (worldviews, cultural/professional norms, values etc.) factors that give rise to the problem and that are barriers to positi... See more
Irwin & Kossoff • Multi-Level Evolution of the Problem
Interactions among the three levels (landscape, regime and niche) are social, technical, institutional, infrastructural and normative and involve both material and non-material factors.
Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU
We use the term “stakeholder” to refer to any group who is connected to or affected by a wicked problem
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
This new, emerging paradigm emphasizes empathy, relationship, participation and self-organization, calls for new mindsets and postures of openness, speculation, mindfulness and a willingness to collaborate.
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Value Circumplex
Common Cause believes it is important to tackle complex sustainability problems and democracy in a mutually supportive way by fostering “intrinsic” values that support self-acceptance, care for others and concerns for the natural world, rather than ones that reinforce, for example, wealth accumulation or status.
Satisfiers that are centrally created and therefore decontextualized are often designed to satisfy a single need in a simplistic way. Max-Neef argues that such satisfiers are often inadequate or even damaging, and categorizes these along a spectrum of ‘singular’ ‘inhibiting’ ‘pseudo’, or ‘destroyer’ satisfiers. By contrast, place based satisfiers, ... See more