When designing products, services, even organisations; we believe it’s essential to understand their footprint & wider impact on communities and planetary boundaries.
We are a research collective, based in Bristol.
Our approach will help you adopt a wider lens to your design process.
A systems perspective provides clear view of both positive and negative impacts across communities and planetary boundaries.
We take a long term view.
Understanding the
bigger picture
It’s our why.
We believe we have a responsibility to understand the footprint and impact of the things we create and introduce into the world.
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 we’ll bring new questions to the table.
We’ll write more on this soon.
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)