Thought provoking questions

“Infrastructure, at its most fundamental level, is not about roads and bridges, cables and concrete. It’s about who we are, what we value, and what kind of society we want to create.”

— Eric Klinenberg

Physical Infrastructure Design

What is the ground on which you're standing to make those deeper commitments? And is that ground sturdy enough and resilient enough to bear the weight of the messiness of it all?”

As anyone who's been in a relationship or family unit knows, it's really messy work. The question facing us now is: “How do we build societal structures that can hold that... See more

does encountering others across class in the same spaces lead to connecting with people across class in those spaces?

Eric • Introducing: Connective Tissue

Question raised: Can non-religious forms of community foster the same sense of commitment and obligation as religious communities?

Introducing: Connective Tissue

How might design problems be framed differently if the primary context was everyday life? Discuss how the same problem, framed first using traditional design approaches and secondly using everyday life as the primary context, lead to different solutions?

Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU

What are some of the dominant narratives and frames that are connected to wicked problems in your country, region or city? In what ways are they contributing to/exacerbating the problem or keeping it entrenched?

Can you think of counternarratives and frames that might destabilize the problem and help to resolve it?

Can you think of ways in which narr... See more

Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU

Globalization defines wealth in terms of monetary measures, discuss what an alternative definition of wealth might be.

If growth is the indicator for economic health what would the indicator(s) be for an alternative economic system?

Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU

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