Sarah Wong

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At what level of scale will the intervention be situated? • How does this project connect and amplify with the others? • How does the intervention connect to both the long-term vision and the near-term milestone(s) ? • Does it represent changes in material (artifacts/processes/ technology/policy etc) or non-material factors (attitudes/beliefs/ valu... See more
from Designing System Interventions - Transition Design Canvas by Terry Irwin & Gideon Kossoff
There are many well documented approaches used to identify and resolve stakeholder relations, including Needs-Fears Mapping, Conflict Analysis Tools, and Multi-Stakeholder Processes, (MSP) to name a few.
from Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
in mapping the historical evolution of a wicked problem, we must identify the events, beliefs, attitudes, innovations and norms within the landscape, regime and niche levels, but we must also learn to understand the complex systems dynamics at work within the whole.
from Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU
What is the role of the designer in drawing together matters of concerns, rather than mere matters of facts, and help articulating individual interests in such a way as to constitute common interests? What would it mean for designers to embrace differences, even conflict, as inherent to the political project that is design?
from Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
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
from Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
everyday life is an emergent property of people meeting their needs
from Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
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
from Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
MSPs provide the opportunity for greater understanding of different stakeholders’ capacities, roles and limitations, thus contributing to better coordination of interventions.

MSPs can help organizations pool and share resources, including skills, funding, staff time, and logistical or administrative resources.
from 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.
from Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU

from Designing System Interventions - Transition Design Canvas by Terry Irwin & Gideon Kossoff

from Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU

from Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU

from Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU

from Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU

from Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU

from Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU

from Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU

from Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU