Transitional Design

Try to imagine interventions at the macro, mezzo and micro levels of scale. How could they be interconnected for greater leverage?

The need to create “ecologies of synergistic interventions” (solutions) that are connected to each other and the long-term vision as a strategy for transitioning entire societies toward a desirable, long-term futures.

The need to think and work for long horizons of time. Resolving wicked problems and transitioning entire societies toward sustainabl

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mindsets and postures often go unnoticed and unacknowledged but they profoundly influence what is identified as a problem and how it is framed and solved within a given context. Transition Design argues that it is important to understand the dominant worldview which underpins many wicked problems in order to envision new socio-economic- political-e... See more

systems interventions are likely to be more effective when material solutions are scaffolded by non-materials ones.

Remember that some stakholder groups will be non-human (other species) or even non-living (such as rivers, mountains, soil, etc.).

We use the term “stakeholder” to refer to any group who is connected to or affected by a wicked problem

needs are few, finite and universal, but the ways in which they are satisfied are limitless. They identify ten material and non-material needs that are the same regardless of culture, era, geography, ethnicity (subsistence, freedom, participation, protection, affection, understanding, leisure, creation, identity, transcendence). However, the ways i... See more