Thought provoking questions
- 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?
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
making change not only had to alter the roots of an unjust system, but it also had to be rooted in real people
“We will never win against extractive capitalism if it’s a matter of power versus power,” Kelly writes. “The real power we the people possess – the ultimate power – is legitimacy. When we withdraw legitimacy, we fatally weaken the system, turning its cultural foundation to sand.”
Wealth Supremacy — The Democracy Collaborative
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
When you think about the way that community has transformed from really embedded familial networks or village networks or religious networks, to thinner communities of interest, or thinner communities of identity, or even digitally connected communities with no in-person engagement, it begs the question: “What is the ground on which you're standing... See more
If democracy is this challenge of people coming together to figure out the kind of shared lives they want to forge, then the behaviors that they use to negotiate difference are going to flow from the commitments they have to each other.
we are made for more community and more relationships than we currently have
Question raised: Can non-religious forms of community foster the same sense of commitment and obligation as religious communities?
Introducing: Connective Tissue
“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