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Sensory design consultant - human centered design, workshops and talks. 3 core design assumptions: humans have extraordinary capacities, vast imaginations and are kind.

Think of #DoubleDiamond as place to grow rather than a process or journey to cross thru. Design Council released its Systemic Design Framework this week https://lnkd.in/e6ftRQbG I designed and tested a number of workshops for this toolkit to understand how it worked with design professionals and climate activists. The adapted version of Double Diamond in the framework works differently in shifting from a very tight business-oriented design thinking process to a more broad sense of community and place making for change. The image here is from one workshop for #CampDigital in Manchester and the use of the tree model continued into workshops for #UXCopenhagen. Using the systemic design framework as a foundation to do more with more people while using fewer resources and planning for degrowth is good. Using Permaculture principles helped with thinking of time in a place not movement thru a place. I’d recommend the Entangled Activist and Closing The Loop as books to read. #DesignThinking #SystemicThinking #ClimateCrisis #SystemsThinking #EcologicalThinking.

  • Double Diamond as a place in a forest on A2 sized colour map with wooden tree model rising in the middle.

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