When designing products, services, even organisations /
We believe it’s essential to understand their footprint and wider impact on communities and our planet.
We work with organisations and teams motivated to improve their position
Through the introduction of a wider lens in their human-centred design process.
What impact might be created through design for re-use or returns? How might better understanding your community help you design a new service? What change might be possible through a qualitative growth perspective?
Our approach brings a wider lens to your design process.
We introduce a long term view, and design for positive change.
What might your strategy look like as qualitative growth?
We believe we have a responsibility to understand the footprint and impact of the things we create and introduce into the world.
“The trick is to know when to grow quantitatively (in size or numbers) and when to shift to qualitative growth (in relationships, synergies, and symbiosis)”
What’s the wider impact of this growth strategy?
If we introduce long-term thinking and look at externalities beyond our organisation what impact are we seeing?
How might our design be different?
Sustainable? Regenerative even?
Human-centred design, with a wider lens.
So along with Service Design methodologies, we’ll probably bring some new questions to the table.
*Occasionally we share an email
It’s intermittent. It really is.
We gave it a name, and called it Fabric.
Recently we’ve shared a few notes on qualitative growth.
* previously we introduced ideas for how you might use the ‘Three Horizons’ Futures framework.
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A sustainable society might ask what the growth is for, who would benefit, what it would cost, how long it would last, and whether the growth could be accommodated by the sources & sinks of the earth.
— Meadows, Meadows & Randers (2005: 22)