Design Science Studio

Pathway Guide (Roadmap)

Contributed by Stephen Bau, Wayfinder of Metaphysical Gravity on January 16, 2022

Blog
Podcast
Magazine
Book
Human experience design
Life-centered design
Participatory design workshops
Learning platform
Resources archive
Open source repository
Publishing pipeline
Onboarding process
Guardian mentoring
Minimalist journal
Interbeing journeys
Ecosystem restoration practices
Ecovillages

Blog

Schedule a regular blog post to guide the conversation, collaboration, and learning process of the group, integrating course content into resources that can be shared to inspire, empower, and serve the community of artists around the world, which, as we know, includes every human being.

Podcast

Aggregating the voices of artists into a unified stream of consciousness to grow in connection through sound, music, and conversation.

Magazine

A print or digital publication that can serve as a tangible record of the activities, projects, bioregions, and communities that are involved in the work of the Design Science Studio and to grow our community to include those who have supported us with their presence, partnership, resources, projects, and ideas.

Book

A tangible artifact to reflect the diversity, complexity, and beauty of our community by honouring the work of artists as a collective project of creative collaboration, building a sense of unity, synergy, and synchronicity of our intentions, values, work, and play.

Human Experience Design

Transforming the language of design to invite the participation of every human being in the process of creating cultures that draw on the resilience and beauty of human creativity and collaboration and care to live in deep connection, relationship, and communion with the earth, nature, and community.

Life-Centered Design

Enlarging our imaginations and the scope of our work to embrace the universe of life as an interdependent and interconnected whole, recognizing the fragility, diversity, and complexity that gives life integrity, beauty, and vitality.

Participatory Design Workshops

Design with communities to increase connection, capacity, and agency to empower people to live in deep symbiosis and reciprocity with all of life.

Learning Platform

Build a learning platform that allows for the complexity of a multidisciplinary creative and collaborative practice while simplifying the process of finding resources that help people focus time and energy and attention on what really matters at each step in the journey to learn, to grow, and to create healthy, living cultures of care and empathy.

Resources Archive

Organize information and artefacts that enhance each person’s ability to integrate their actions into a community of care for earth, nature, community, and individual.

Open Source Repository

Build the capacity of the whole by creating a library of technologies, standards, practices, frameworks, tools, and code that enhance and enable synergies and connections and communication that are necessary for the well-being of living systems.

Publishing Pipeline

Design and engineer a process that integrates a Create Once, Publish Everywhere (COPE) approach to content strategy that facilitates multiple forms of output or publication. The storage of data and the API should then enable the ability to retrieve, reuse, measure, and transform content into various media as required with the minimum effort by reducing or avoiding duplication and waste. Automate processes to reduce wasted effort.

Onboarding Process

Create an onboarding process for new members of the community to improve communication around expectations, responsibilities, and benefits of working together in a collaborative, empowering, and respectful social organization. Reduce levels of information overload and technology overwhelm by accommodating to different capacities, styles, and pace for learning, adaptation, and integration.

Guardian Mentoring

Provide opportunities to people based on demonstrated knowledge, experience, and skill in ethics, empathy, sensitivity, leadership, and conflict resolution to serve the community as guardians of pods. Prepare and build the capacity of those who desire to serve in leadership roles.

Minimalist Journal

Develop habits and rituals to form individual behaviours and a healthy organizational culture by co-creating tools to make incremental adjustments necessary to realize transformational changes in consciousness, motivations, behaviours, and synergies.

Interbeing Journeys

Develop pods and teams to work together on community building through opportunities for connection, organizing, project integration, design critiques, peer review, collaboration, play, and celebration, which can also involve rites of passage to signify and acknowledge individual and collective milestones and achievements.

Ecosystem Restoration Practices

Engage in individual and collective practices to unlearn old habits and learn new ways of being in deep relationship and reciprocity with the living earth.

Ecovillages

Create models for community life that builds connections with nature and with each other that is a participatory process of building knowledge, capacity, and experience to regenerate and grow living systems.