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Process

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The methodology for EcoAcupuncture, refined over eight years of projects (involving over one thousand participants), is constructed around seven principles and four tools:

THE PRINCIPLES.

  1.  A twenty-five year horizon for envisaging transformation.

  2. Recognising that ‘transformation’, in response to significant and emerging challenges (such as climate change), has to result in systems change involving all the complex and interconnected infrastructures of provision that enable urban life.

  3. Using a co-design process that bring together professional designers with citizens selected from local, civil society and governance organisations and representative of the diverse characteristics of the specific community (particularly, gender, age, ethnicity and employment status).

  4. Adhering to a ‘chatham house’ approach to recording deliberations in the co-design process (capturing ideas but respecting privacy of individual contributions - no attribution or quotation)

  5. Utilising visualised representations of future transformations of exisiting ‘local’ conditions, as core to the process of dialogue and critique within the the co-design process.

  6. Careful attention to the ‘fidelity’ of the visualisations, usually referred to as ‘glimpses’ - to achieve a balance between and adequate and comprehensible representation of complex systems transformations and allowing for a level of ambiguity to invite engagement with ideas.

  7. Enabling participants to understand the concept of the non-linear characteristics of many areas of social, cultural and technological change and consider the potential for disruptive forces in the flow of change.

THE TOOLS

  1. Thinking about ‘distributed systems’ - as a design framework for increasing structural resilience.

  2. Layered Systems Mapping © - an iterative process for developing new systems concepts (acknowledging the complex interaction of sub-systems of provision (energy; water; food; transport; waste-disposal; buildings; information; products and services).

  3. Iteration through dialogue and critique of visualised system-concepts.

  4. Back-casting to a distributed network of ‘niche’ interventions.