Meta-design
Meta-design is the design to the design itself; it can be as a higher order of design; that transcends design disciplines through contingent workforce and open-ended process. It is inherently collaborative, inviting stakeholders and users into the process. The way of working can be useful in sustainable fashion design perspectives on complex problem-solving situations; for example, the result of a meta design operation solving and lower aircraft use of fossil fuel.
Sources: Giaccardi, 2005; Tham and Jones, 2008
Meta design more
- To create a framework for design practice that fosters greater wisdom.
- To address primary human needs (e.g. food, shelter, mobility) in a joined-up way.
- To find design methods that encourage a more ecological society.
- To find new ways to increase biological diversity.
- To find new ways to hinder entropy at the urban metabolic level.
- To work towards some form of creative democracy.
- To inspire and cultivate a ‘diversity-of-diversities’ within relevant organizations.
- To transform the ‘diversity-of-diversities’ into a global ‘synergy-of-synergies’.
- To incorporate economic thinking and entrepreneurship as a normal part of the (meta)design task.
ECO-FASHION-DENIM AND DIAGRAMS DICTIONARIES OVERVIEW
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