How Do We Work? Advancing the Practice of Design for Transition

By: Fit Associates (Marc Rettig)

This is an invited paper for the Carnegie Mellon University symposium on Transition Design. It summarizes the ways in which social situations at any scale present complexities that are beyond current design practice, then describes the characteristics of the new approaches we need for working with emergent social patterns. It also offers examples of approaches that have some of those necessary characteristics.

Read the report here.