Absolutely! Cultures can be designed and should be. Ilsa Crawford said, “Empathy is the cornerstone of design.” Designers walk a framework of innovation which bridges art and science through the application of anticipatory user experience, expression, and engagement. Culture is the programming system for our inter-relatedness our inter-beingness. And if it’s created to recognize that the needs of the biosphere are one and the same with our own then eventually it’s a checkmate on war and poverty. You’re correct, I cannot sing this with more amplified agreement.
We need to use human-centric and empathy-centric thinking for the emergence of culture that mitigates impact by harmonious inputs/outputs as nature does. In a scarcity based economic system/paradigm, contrary to nature, it seems that this scarcity paradigm culture creates “outputs” of violence through proxy war profiteering and resource wars. Once we move into cultures and economies that reflect the insight of our innate connected-ness (i.e. there can be no negative outputs which do not affect us as a whole), a holonic shift would emerge with agility to transmute chaos and crises into incentives for harmonious social patterns and global stewardship of ecologies.
Organizations, economies, and businesses then cease to be compartmentalized bystanders but participatory “holons” in systemic change of the emergence of a regenerative culture. Then their appendages we see as products, outcomes, relationships become the immediate experiences to engage the public in participation as this emergent sub-culture. Which of course, would need to be agile to meet the needs of localized and bioregional communities acting in response to this shared impulse to harmonize and unify with diversity. I think social media possesses the capacity to reflect this shift in culture.
