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Process and Theory

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	<p>Designers are pattern identifiers and pattern
	makers, trained to recognize trends in existing
	designed solutions, to see parallels across ideas
	and to make unexpected, yet somehow obvious
	connections between disparate ideas. They are
	challenged to break the mold. Designers are
	mediators and translators; short time experts,
	burdened with understanding concepts broadly
	(sometimes deeply), and interpreting that expert
	understanding into a human one.</p>
	
	<p>Social designers apply these fundamentals of
	design thinking to critical human experiences; to
	influencing human and ecological systems in
	equitable and sustainable ways. Social designers
	must look at the wicked problems in the world and
	consider the constraints of existing systems,
	cultural influences, time and nature.</p>
	
	<p>To effect change, social designers must develop
	their role as a bridge between disciplines and
	begin applying new and borrowed methods to their
	human-centered toolkit. Their work must be
	flexible and solutions driven, borrowing from the
	wisdom of the past and projecting a vision for the
	future. Consult nature; she’s been at it for a while.</p>
	
	<p>Interventions should be informed by locality and
	built to evolve. The process should be open,
	inclusive, collaborative and transdisciplinary.
	Solutions should leverage existing systems and
	processes, while working to eliminate disparities
	and power imbalances within them.</p>
	
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