STEVEDANIELS.SPACE

This means rethinking who is designing: from outside experts to place-based participants. It also means rethinking what is designed: from human-centered products to right relations among beings. I owe a debt to many teachers who go by other titles-community organizers, land tenders, knowledge keepers, and world builders, to name just a few. I draw on their teachings in an ongoing practice of reworlding, nurturing the latent seeds of the past and present into futures that are pluralistic and just... Core to my work are cycles of sensemaking, a continuous collaboration between inner and outer realms expressed through writing. I think of sensemaking as a cultivation of the human instrument to feel (making senses), a processing of feeling into meaning (making sense), and a channeling of meaning into form (sensed making). Through this process, we each land upon our own unique intersection between self and world... More than ever, we need design to helps us dream and move into worlds that..