Summary of last day's Open Space Workshops

EAST MEETS WEST: DESIGN IN 2030?

• BEING IN ARMONY WITH “A DIFFERENCE” (AUTHENTICITY)
• FROM HUMAN-CENTRIC TO COMMUNITY-CENTRIC DESIGN
• DESIGN= FINDING THE GOOD/ RIGHT WAY (FOR THE FUTURE)
• EAST-WEST-NORTH-SOUTH – ALL MUST BE CONSIDERED EQUALLY

STEWARDSHIP

1. It’s multidimensional. Structure, process, business model all come into play. Top down, quasi open, bottom up.
2. Need a MANIFESTO to articulate how to realize the design agenda going forward – local and gobal.
3. “Start ups” are an intriguing model for experiments, integration, funding.
4. New model for funding initiatives/experiments is also needed.

DESIGN SOCIETY

• I.D. = 1/1000 => manifesto
• ID role as a “glue”
• “cultural engineering”

RESPONSIBILITY

• Individual responsibility high
• possibility to influence
• must take responsibility
• act, don’t wait

ITA-PRINCIPLE

DESIGN & ENERGY & HUMAN

• Need for design benchmarks
• Need for processes for global design problems
• The multi and trans disciplinary nature of design
• Design by the end user
• Energy human interaction a goal benchmark

DESIGN AS POLITICS

1. LEVELS OF DESIGN THINKING AND ACTION
2. STONE IN THE POND EFFECT – FROM DETAIL TO MACRO INFLUENCES
3. AWARENESS F CONSEQUENCES, E.G. GLOBAL WARMING SOCIAL EQUALITY
4. GROUP PROCESSES OF NEGOTIATION (GOALS, INVESTMENTS, COMMITMENT)
5. EABLE DESIGN ASSIMILATION BY & ACROSS DISCIPLINES

GOVERNANCE, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE

• Vision and target driven -> visions and targets that reflect strategic challenges of mankind
• Re-allocation of resources -> strongly away from more-of-the-same
• Changes in consumption and production patterns – changes in value chains

HUMAN CENTRIC/ PRACTICE ORIENTED DESIGN APPROACH

1. FOCUS ON HUMAN PRACTICES
2. UNDERSTAND THEIR CONTEXT (PLACE, TECHNOLOGY, NOWLEDGE, CULTURE ETC.)
3. UNDERSTAND STAKEHOLDERS’ EXPERTISE, NEEDS AND PREFERENCES
4. UNDERSTAND INTERACTIONS IN THE SYSTEM
5. FACILITATE A PROCESS OF CREATING A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF THE SYSTEM
6. PROPOSE A PROTYPE SOLUTION/DESIGN

FURTHER NOTES ON THE FINAL SESSION:

We have become “Buddhist designers “, i.e. we must have a holistic view.
In Western terms this would be a phenomenological approach.

• South- North: the weight/significance of each

Buddhism – not a state of nirvana where nothing happens but a dynamic concept.

• We should look for harmony – yin and yang: the dot means life; it’s a balance of moving things
• A Buddhist designer is in harmony with everything around her, but also aware of her personal capabilities
• Negotiation: figuring out the design approach to a wicked problem places the designer within a conflict, so it is difficult to be harmonious. There will be a lot of disagreement on design in the future.

We should create a manifesto: the role of design, the needs of design etc.

• The whole community should take on the challenges discussed at the HDL
• This would be an “open source” process
• We are building up a global platform; this is not the issue of an individual institution
• Design has many levels; rings of influence: politics is a result of all our actions
• The future is unknown but can be visualized
• Design has a new role: to create models that society can adopt
• Now we talk about the human-centric approach, but in 20 years the focus  will be on community-centric approach
• Companies are organized according to business units. This limits R & D.
• Often we are only adding a little bit to what already exists, not building totally new ways (there is also no funding for this kind of thing.)
• The innovator’s dilemma: whether to improve the existing pattern or to do something radical
• A lot of people just want minor improvements and don’t want to take risks
• Holistic nature of the goals; innovation is multidisciplinary; how to we bring the other disciplines into the discussion?
• We should have some benchmarks, some solutions to wicked problems , e.g. the energy problem