Creativity training and teaching for engineers
Part of the role of the regenerative designer is to develop and nourish a view of a more hopeful future.
This isn’t passive work — it’s active. Repeatedly returning to questions like:
To return to these questions, on our own and with others, is to hope fully.
This has become one of my catchphrases in regenerative design*. To think of design as being for ‘where we make but also where we take’. The role of the regenerative designer is to create a transition to an industry in which our designs create human and ecological thriving.
To make that possible we need to bring two separate things into our view at the same time. The place where we are doing the making, and the places that are we are drawing upon to do that making.
Because if our work makes the world better where we are making, but worse where we are taking, we are not creating thriving. We are just shifting it from one place to the other.
*It definitely is a catchphrase – I’ve already written a post this year with this exact same title.