Thinking Beyond the Possible

Building the 'bottom-up' team synergies in order to challenge existing paradigms

The following 21 tools is an integrated set of methods and techniques that supports metadesigners.
It was developed by the m21 research team between January 2005 and December 2008.
The aim of this initiative is to change existing wasteful, or damaging paradigms within society.
Metadesign would be intended to create synergies on many levels.
This requires team effort and to facilitate better team work it is important to compose dynamic teams.
How can designers help us to become greener, when the economic system dictates how designers work?
Donella Meadows (1997) looked at subsidies, taxes and legal standards (i.e. parameters) as 'levers' for change.
However, she found that numbers is a far less effective leverage point than paradigmatic change.
Behavioural habits are bound by a language system that frames beliefs and assumptions.
By steering the metaphors we may re-frame the conditions we perceive to be 'real'
Again, shared realities can be shifted by language tools such as collective story-telling
or the consensual values tool which quickly enables novice participants to agree defining terms to help to bind them as a team.
It would encourage holarchic teams of trans-disciplinary and interdisciplinary designers.