“This dissatisfaction with existing models coupled with new forms of bottom-up democracy enhanced by social media make this a perfect time to revisit our social dreams and ideals.”

"By virtue of what we are, what we can do, and our sheer numbers, we have the capacity to change our world, and to do so at a remarkable scale." 

"This means we have both the time and space ahead of us to continue this experiment and that the design choices we make today must be considered in the long term because they will impact the untold numbers of people who will live in the future." 

“This dissatisfaction with existing models coupled with new forms of bottom-up democracy enhanced by social media make this a perfect time to revisit our social dreams and ideals.”

"By virtue of what we are, what we can do, and our sheer numbers, we have the capacity to change our world, and to do so at a remarkable scale." 

"This means we have both the time and space ahead of us to continue this experiment and that the design choices we make today must be considered in the long term because they will impact the untold numbers of people who will live in the future." 

"This dissatisfaction with existing models coupled with new forms of bottom-up democracy enhanced by social media make this a perfect time to revisit our social dreams and ideals and design's role in facilitating alternative visions rather than defining them. Of being a catalyst rather than a source of visions."

"Rather than waiting for commissions from industry or seeking out market gaps for new products, designers could work with curators and other professionals, independently of industry, in partnership with organizations focused on society in the broadest sense, not just business. Similar to architects, designers could take this on as a profession using some of our time for more civic purposes."

"Not-so-experienced legal designers tend to return to their assumptions much too quickly and to use them as a basis for further considerations instead of deriving real insights. We cannot stress enough that you have to be particularly careful here. It is indeed a skill to extract the right conclusion from the existing data." 

"This is an ongoing (and growing) crime against humanity. I use that term quite deliberately, but not in the international law context with which we most associate the term (Bassiouni 1992). I use it to describe the scale of real human suffering such an injustice exacts every single day. That is five billion people with current or very recently unmet justice needs every single day. The scale of misery is staggering." 

 

• “With the POV technique, you can check the knowledge you have gained through research and compare it with the assumptions you made at the beginning of the task. This helps you to see what problem actually needs to be addressed and to formulate it using the POV technique.” Pg. 129

• “Lawyers are conditioned to seek the expected ‘right’ answers, which is definitely necessary when it comes to providing quality legal advice. This is convergent thinking: using facts to go straight to a solution. But convergent thinking doesn’t generate any new ideas; nor does it inspire people to do so – something that is essential for any organization that seeks to have a truly innovative culture and develop innovative solutions.” Pg. 134

 

 

2 from Speculative Everything

 

• “Conceptual designs are not only ideas but also ideals, and as the moral philosopher Susan Neiman has pointed out, we should measure reality against ideals, not the other way around: ‘Ideals are not measured by whether they conform to reality; reality is judged by whether it lives up to ideals.’” Pg. 12

• “The relationship between reality and unreality is particularly interesting in architecture because many buildings are designed to be built but remain on paper due to economic or political reasons.” Pg. 24

 

1 from Dan’s piece

 

• “Thinking long term promotes stability, consensus, and collective action. By encouraging long-term thinking, we pursue decisions that favor sustainability and the common good. This approach can bridge political and ideological divides, fostering consensus around shared long-term goals.” Pg. 57

 

1 from 100 ways 

 

• “Designers first look at secondary design research, then combine it with their own up-front exploratory research, using methods such as design ethnography, contextual inquiry, observation, interviews, experience sampling methods, and diary and photo studies. Through a process of ideation, experimentation, and critique, designers then reframe the problem to arrive at the “right” solution. Of the artifacts that emerge from the design process, including sketches, drawings, models, and prototypes, the most critical is documentation, which contextualizes and communicates design action.” Pg. 146

 

 

 

 

Speculative Everything

100 Ways 

Dignifying Design in Law

"Not so experienced legal designers tend to return to their assumptions much too quickly and to use them as a basis for further considerations instead of deriving real insights. We cannot stress enough that you have to be particularly careful here. It is indeed a skill to extract the right conclusion from the existing data. The art, therefore, is to identify the situational context, the possible limitations, obstacles and frictions, and to generate the right insights." 

P. 127 of The Legal Design Book (Bold added for emphasis)

"While divergent thinking is about opening yourself up to all thinkable and unthinkable combinations, wild imaginations, and finding a creative flow that does not limit your fantasy, convergent thinking is quite the opposite. [...] The art of convergent thinking is not to get rid of all the wild ideas you had before, but to narrow them down while at the same time maintaining ideas that have a sufficient element of novelty or innovative quality" 

p.133 of The Legal Design Book

"We believe that by speculating more, at all levels of society, and exploring alternative scenarios, reality will become more malleable and, although the future cannot be predicted, we can help set in place today factors that will increase the probability of more desirable futures happening." p.6 Speculative Everything

"Everything we encounter in our world that has been created by people in this world is the
product of a design process of some kind." P. 55 Dignifying Design in Law