Saving the world with design
By exploring the three tomorrows:
Dystopia
To fully understand the interaction between people and the man-made environment, we must first have an idea of what can go wrong.
Dystopia represents everything we don’t want the world to be, and acts as the baseline by which the future is measured.
Protopia
Coined by Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly in his 2010 book 'What Technology Wants’, the Protopia represents an improved future through design and innovation. It’s yet to be a Utopia, but it’s better than both the Dystopia and today’s reality.
Encompassing aesthetic, functional, contextual, cultural and societal considerations; exploring Protopias is the persistent goal of Pardalote®.
Utopia
If Dystopia is a world where everything is wrong, Utopia is a wondrous place where everything is right.
We all have our own ideas for how things could be better, and the Utopia represents a perfect world that we should all aspire to.
This is our ‘north star’.
What we’re working on:
How we work:
We use the three tomorrows to collectively articulate and document a problem statement by the worst and possible outcomes, then pave paths between each using both existing (reality) and new (designed) stepping stones to enable iterative paths of progress.
Our facilitation process uses a host of specialised skills and frameworks to bring about a better future, including but not limited to:
Life-centred design
Lean process improvement
Leadership development
Continuous improvement
Design workshops
Design thinking
Speculative design
Role play facilitation
Professional coaching
Training delivery