I love love love your initial take on Psychedelics_Design_Principles! Completely aligned in theory. And, while I feel that there’s plenty of room for the design process to evolve and benefit from an expanded-state of knowing and doing, I’m even more curious how we as designers, can begin using these principles to elevate how we co-create with our ‘clients/stakeholders’ in such a manner that the collaboration itself brings to life the ‘interconnectedness’ of all things. IMHO, and after 30yrs of consulting experience, I’ve seen far too many teams that either isolate themselves as the keepers of the process and/or live within a corporate structure that is a Grand Canyon away from where strategy gets shaped. To this point, I’d like to see ‘design’ become even more a part of (not apart from) the organizations that employ the practice. (Ie. More than a ‘department’ or a ‘process)
Your “Expanded Consciousness” principle captures what I’m getting at quite nicely, as it is from an expanded-state that designers can gain new perspectives on their role (not only in creating highly desirable, ‘harmonious and sustainable’ solutions) but also on their role within the the ecosystem of growth overall. To this end, what excites me most about Psychedelics Design, is the potential to blow open the aperture of our current ways of knowing and doing “design”, and to reimagine a new way forward; one inspired by expansiveness, conscious connectedness, collaboration, regeneration and reciprocity.
As R. Buckminster Fuller noted decades back -
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
Thanks for this thoughtful comment Jalen! Love to think about expanded consciousness to extend also to the designers role within a new system of how we design and where we sit as designers within that ecosystem. Let's continue this conversation!
I love love love your initial take on Psychedelics_Design_Principles! Completely aligned in theory. And, while I feel that there’s plenty of room for the design process to evolve and benefit from an expanded-state of knowing and doing, I’m even more curious how we as designers, can begin using these principles to elevate how we co-create with our ‘clients/stakeholders’ in such a manner that the collaboration itself brings to life the ‘interconnectedness’ of all things. IMHO, and after 30yrs of consulting experience, I’ve seen far too many teams that either isolate themselves as the keepers of the process and/or live within a corporate structure that is a Grand Canyon away from where strategy gets shaped. To this point, I’d like to see ‘design’ become even more a part of (not apart from) the organizations that employ the practice. (Ie. More than a ‘department’ or a ‘process)
Your “Expanded Consciousness” principle captures what I’m getting at quite nicely, as it is from an expanded-state that designers can gain new perspectives on their role (not only in creating highly desirable, ‘harmonious and sustainable’ solutions) but also on their role within the the ecosystem of growth overall. To this end, what excites me most about Psychedelics Design, is the potential to blow open the aperture of our current ways of knowing and doing “design”, and to reimagine a new way forward; one inspired by expansiveness, conscious connectedness, collaboration, regeneration and reciprocity.
As R. Buckminster Fuller noted decades back -
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
Thanks for this thoughtful comment Jalen! Love to think about expanded consciousness to extend also to the designers role within a new system of how we design and where we sit as designers within that ecosystem. Let's continue this conversation!