A big warm welcome into Thursday. This week I’ve been focusing on a pathway from service design (steps) to transition design (direction) 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #design #research #psychology #ServiceDesign #TransitionDesign #ServiceDesignThursday
New Year’s Eve is a global design ritual — a moment where visuals, space, and time shape how we feel change itself. #DesignCulture #NewYearsEve #TransitionDesign #VisualCulture #otaviosantiago
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Essential reading for those who are not scared to take a fresh look at seemingly familiar things. The #commons are one important way forward as the planetary crisis accelerates & cascades. Community resilience is the key to perpetual adaptation.
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This is a valuable resource for anybody interested in sustainability transitions.
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Strange coincidence—I discussed this yesterday in my #TransitionDesign class as extreme example of a wicked problem. It illustrates the arrogance of modernist engineers who believed they could fully control nature. In the end, they couldn’t—and instead, triggered a massive, cascading disaster.
Our business-as-usual consumer economy creates staggering toxic waste and squanders precious resources. We must do better—this is no way to face a planetary crisis. #transitiondesign #theSmartEnoughCity
That’s why it makes sense to (re)build resilient regional systems—for energy, food & mobility—empower local communities, and nurture collective creativity, while simultaneously slowing the breakdown of global systems. We need complex, emergent and adaptive changemaking strategies. #transitiondesign
Excellent thread. We urgently need to move beyond the model of individual car ownership. And it’s not just about CO₂ — every new car, electric or not, demands vast resources. We’re also facing a resource crisis, and most cities suffer from a loss of public space.
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"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"
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Essential reading ! #TransitionDesign
This is a critical thread — please read it in full. Our planetary systems (environmental, economic, social, political, geopolitical) are under immense stress and nearing collapse. The poorest of the poor are hit hardest.
#TransitionDesign has never been more urgent.
Good quote. I would add that design also needs to engage at different scales—strategically connecting the local and the global. Designers have to learn to think simultaneously across different temporal *and* spatial horizons.
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Nestled in the hills east of Kōriyama, Fukushima #Branch is a vegan, fair-trade café and community space promoting sustainable living, where food, health, nature, and habitat form a connected whole. #transitiondesign
If you’d like to follow my reflections on urban & rural Japan (sometimes also on similar issues in my native Germany), join me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/chr.dimmer/
Let’s explore shared #planningcultures & imagine better futures together!
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Can design help us transition to a just, sustainable world? Escobar says yes—but only if it’s rooted in autonomy, relationality, and indigenous wisdom. #TransitionDesign #Pluriverse
Officially ABD! Feels great to have passed my mid-program defence. Very excited for the next phase of research! #PhD #transitiondesign #education #designingshift
Mid-program defence tomorrow for my PhD. Can’t wait to share my ideas about how we could use transition design thinking in the design of education to create better health outcomes in society. #transitiondesign #highered
the future is dismantled brick by brick, mattress by mattress…
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