Tools Overview

an annotated selection of 21 metadesign tools
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We sketched out almost a hundred tools for metadesigners.
These were created by our metadesigners research team (2005-2008).
Their ultimate purpose is to seed a paradigm change that would enhance biodiversity.

The meta-tetrahedron consists of 7 separate tools, each based on the same concept.
Many more are nearing completion.

Habits are guided by a language system that frames beliefs and assumptions.
By steering the metaphors we may re-frame the conditions we perceive to be 'real'
Again, shared realities can be shifted by language tools such as collective story-telling or the consensual values tool which quickly enables novice participants to agree defining terms to help to bind them as a team.
It would encourage holarchic teams of trans-disciplinary and interdisciplinary designers.
This requires team effort and to facilitate better team work it is important to compose dynamic teams.
How can designers help us to become greener, when the economic system dictates how designers work?

Paradigm change is difficult because future paradigms are 'unthinkable' unless we can think in new ways.
One of our team methods is to agree that designing miracles is possible
Another of our team tools is thinking from inside - and from outside - the box