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Systems & long-term thinking.
We bring an approach to Service & Product Design that looks to understand the footprint and wider impact on communities and our planet.
A lens of qualitative growth
Human Centred Design
What’s the wider impact of this growth strategy?
Look at externalities, extend timeframes.
What impact might we have?
How might we design this differently?
Could this be regenerative?
Human-centred design, with a wider lens.
“The trick is to know when to grow quantitatively (in size or numbers) and when to shift to qualitative growth (relationships, synergies and symbiosis)”
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We gave it a name though, it’s called Fabric.
Most recently it was qualitative growth.
*previous notes on how you might use the ‘Three Horizons’ Futures framework.
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)