What are design process that take nature and traditions more into account?

What are design process that take nature and traditions more into account?

An illustration of a natural landscape with trees and birds

In short: There are many other ways of bringing change and innovation in organizations and services that are inspired by indigenous practices and nature. To name just a few: Te Korekoreka , Indigenous Design Framework , Hautū Waka , etc.


Why?

The classical Double Diamond process is inspired by a lot of industrial design work and practices. Innovation and design has happened before the industrial revolution and I find it fascinating to see how "older" ways of doing might help us innovate while keeping nature and traditions in the loop.

Here are a few processes that I think can inspire us in our Service Design practice:

Shared by Rachel Knight

Rachel Knight, a freelance Design Researcher working on helping social change leaders find clarity and take action has shared on a Linkedin post 4 indigenous design frameworks:

  1. Te Korekoreka: by Tokona te Raki

  2. Hautū Waka: by Auckland Co-design Lab.

  3. Culture Centred Design by Indigenous Design & Innovation Aotearoa.

  4. The Aroha Model: by Springload

Other processes

Here are a few more processes I've been able to find online:

  1. Dragon Dreaming: John Croft and Vivienne Elanta

  2. Indigenous Design Framework by University of Queensland

  3. Indigenizing Design by Catapult

  4. Indigenous Placekeeping Framework: by Rhonda Harvey

Going further

The Anti-colonial research library has a lot of resources on Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies.

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