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KA McKercher – Beyond Sticky Notes
As KA McKercher explains, practically, co-design is a movement, mindset and an ever-expanding set of tools. Practically, it is a movement, mindset (read more) and an ever-expanding set of tools. Co-design is about challenging the imbalance of power held by individuals, who make important decisions about others lives, livelihoods and bodies. Often, with little to…
UK Design Council – Beyond Net Zero
You can learn more about this approach on the Design Council website, here.
Peter Checkland and John Poulter – Learning For Action
The approach to tackling messy real-life situations known as Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) was developed in a 30-year programme of action research led by Peter Checkland. The approach is now used and taught around the world, and its development has been described in depth in four books published between 1981 and 1999, which are now…
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World
Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises. His book Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, is about everything from echidnas…