| dc.description | Design for Design explores how design practices can better orient themselves towards complex planetary challenges.
This diploma proposes a structure for democratizing design outcomes through co-creative meeting points, which various design practices and projects can utilize to collectively address and navigate complex planetary challenges. The project result is visualized through a structure within which a design process can take place, consisting of four cornerstones: consensus: missions, consensus, visions and continued processes.
All design processes have this basis to some extent, knowingly or not. However, when the process is perceived as the focal point, this basis mentioned becomes reactive to the process instead of intentional. Instead, we wish to propose an alternative in which the structure around a process is held as equally valuable as the process itself.
Through this structure we can redirect focus on what is universal to a wicked problem, rather than what is specific to a project. This opens up for many new possibilities.
To create context, we situated this structure into a platform, illustrating one of the more low-threshold ways this idea could be implemented. The four steps are suggested through an independent platform to co-create missions and visions, an open medium platform to create consensus (shared understanding of reality), a discord channel for continued processes and lastly, an entertainment program to create collective engagement for visions.
These are aspects that have the potential to democratize design outputs through shared reference and project starting points. It aims to redirect focus to what is universal to a problem, rather than specific to a project. Ultimately we believe this may open up for more collaboration, collective learning, impact, long term processes and meaningful dialogue towards how we might address wicked problems facing the world today. | en_US |
