Design for systems-level change, addressing wicked problems to catalyze societal transitions toward more sustainable and desirable futures
- Transition design shares the objective of greater cultural and geographical diversity with initiatives to challenge the dominant U.S. and Eurocentric design paradigms.
- The designer acts as a facilitator, supporter, and bringer of resources and different forms of expertise to the community.
- Traditional design approaches are characterized by linear processes and de-contextualized problem frames, whose objective is usually the swift realization of predictable and profitable solutions.
- In contrast, transition design proposes that a more holistic approach is needed: systems change ...