Twilight of Design Thinking
A Case for Posthuman Growth
Governments increasingly cite design thinking as a way to help businesses innovate and grow.
Our review of design thinking shows that while such tools successfully drive profits in a market economy, their bias on user needs comes at the expense of living systems.
A recent shift towards circular design thinking has refocused business minds on closing material loops to preserve resources. Despite this shift, anthropocentric biases continue to fuel a kind of sociopathic capitalism that inflicts death and destruction on a global scale.
To reverse systemic damages and spark innovation between humans and nonhumans, this paper argues business leaders must develop a new toolkit to drive Transcendence Hacking (Tx) and Posthuman Growth.
Inspiration for developing such a toolkit may be drawn from four key processes:
- Connect — engineering sensor networks that optimise connected intelligence and growth;
- Translate — benchmarking nonhuman growth needs outside everyday human experience;
- Potentiate — rapid prototyping and testing growth interventions across networks; and
- Distribute — sharing transformative products and outcomes across networks.
Read the full paper at Twilight of Design Thinking
