As Designers, we assume an increasing responsibility in a world that increasingly revolves around intangible services. When we consider this factor and the complexity of interconnectedness that the world has reached, it becomes appropriate to deeply consider the decisions we make and their potential repercussions while designing and creating solutions.
Discover how rigorous systems thinking and creativity, enabled by the superpowers we derive from technology, prove vital to succeed in framing the challenges ahead.
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Mattia is currently enjoying the Futurice office in Stockholm as a Senior Service Designer. He translates his passion for foresight thinking, nerdy philosophy, and climbing (but that's another topic) into a holistic approach to research and design solutions. Basically, he enjoys looking at things from above, whether it is a mountain or a Venn diagram.
As well depicted by the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, the world has never been so liquid as today. So rather than looking and fixing punctual problems, we should focus our energies on embracing broader visions, involving bold imaginaries, and start concretely building a more responsible and sustainable world as the Untitled Alliance is doing today.
To do this, they have created an annual festival to connect professionals and organizations from widely varying backgrounds to create a fertile network that can give concrete life to the solutions that are ideated and debated during the two-day event.
When it comes to designing new solutions and making business choices, is the dual logic that closely links innovation to risk still relevant?
Read about a different perspective regarding this balance in the lucid “open invitation” by Indy Johar, Co-founder of Project 00 & Dark Matter labs, Senior Innovation Associate Young Foundation. We need to reconsider this relationship by not letting fear stop us from changing, which is demanded in an increasingly pressing way by the reality we experience every day.
New challenges on global scales also require new creative systems underlying the solutions we bring to life. Therefore, Neri Oxman has reinterpreted the Krebs Cycle and the Bauhaus wheel diagram, combining them in order to hold together the four main creative forces through which we metabolize reality and give birth to new responses that possibly take into account each dimension. Up to you to use it as a clock, a microscope, a compass, or even a gyroscope. What does it mean? Discover it in the article.
On a more practical level, behavioral design is my go-to solution when thinking about enabling sustainable behavior in organisations and consumers. This post summarises well some key tactics to get started with behavioral design.
Never be afraid to express yourself or ask questions. It is only by knowing more or getting out of your comfort zone that you actually achieve the biggest success. As designers remember to follow your gut feeling.
One of my new year's resolutions
To soothe the puzzling sensation derived from this never-ending-inputs-world by increasing my ability to focus and be present with clear thinking. Recognize what is in excess, leave it out, and welcome void and quietness.
Favorite quote
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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