Metadesign

The New School Futures project is an outcome of our research into metadesign, which we loosely define as "an emerging framework of practice intended to enable designers to change, or to create behavioural paradigms".
Humanity faces common existential threats to its survival.
These can be defined as ((wicked-problem-glossary|wicked, or super-wicked problems)
We need a vision of design for survival in the longer term.
Ideally, we need a manifold, transnational, trans-disciplinary comprehensive and conscious mode of design.
So metadesign is almost certainly more complicated and complex than design.
Yet different cultures already define design using different criteria.
So a definition of metadesign that is universally helpful, singular and interoperable seems unlikely.
However we might define it as re-designing the processes and methods of designing...
- (see additional material on metadesigning
See some ongoing attempts to apply metadesign to the global paradigm of fashion

The following metadesign framework summarises research from 2005 to 2022 (see more here)

#	AGENDA	BECAUSE
1.	To learn from the way ecosystems work	living systems are smarter than we know
2.	To think in a more comprehensive way	we need to join up more of the dots
3.	To operate at the level of paradigms	improvement of separate parts may not work
4.	To 'language' new possibilities	paradigms are partly sustained by words
5.	To create synergies through re-combination	synergy is a free bonus from Nature
6.	To work co-creatively across disciplines	no one is smart enough to see the whole picture
7.	To encourage flat-structured teamwork	fixed hierarchies eclipse willingness & responsibility
8.	To work as entrepreneurs & entredonneurs	this can reconcile top-down & bottom-up initiatives
9.	To make complex systems more navigable	users need to find their way around systems
10.	to develop radically optimistic approaches	negative thoughts make miracles seem less possible

We are applying this approach to metadesign in order to reshape the fashion paradigm.
See metadesign Mk 2 (work in progress)