Design research is the beginning of your problem-solving and solution-building. It incorporates creating a research brief, frameworks and methodologies to determine your stakeholders' challenges, behaviours, needs and opportunities. You explore, expand and understand what challenge are you trying to address. This research continues throughout all four stages of the Design Process: Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver. It includes generating insights, gathering feedback and adapting it through exploration, innovation and development of your solution.

A lot of times, the challenge you are trying to address isn't the challenge that needs to be addressed. Complex challenges are socio-technical, systemic problems that have multi-level stakeholders and ecosystems. To try to address them, we need to identify the different elements within a system, understand how they interact and discern patterns of behavior or influence. Problem-scoping untangles these complicated challenges where various factors are interdependent, enabling stakeholders to see the bigger picture and make more informed decisions. Using methods and methodologies like Transition Design, Systems Mapping and Stakeholder Analysis, you come up with a Research Question that truly looks at addressing a particular part of the system and understanding what the real challenge is.

Co-Design and Participatory Design are collaborative methodologies that engage stakeholders, beneficiaries and end-users in the design process. By facilitating inclusive workshops and utilising participatory interaction and design techniques, co-design is a way of creating with the stakeholders from the early on, so that their input can serve the community you are designing for. This ensures that diverse perspectives are integrated, resulting in innovative, people+/planet-centered and sustainable solutions that address complex socio-ecological challenges.

Design research is the beginning of your problem-solving and solution-building. It incorporates creating a research brief, frameworks and methodologies to determine your stakeholders' challenges, behaviours, needs and opportunities. You explore, expand and understand what challenge are you trying to address. This research continues throughout all four stages of the Design Process: Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver. It includes generating insights, gathering feedback and adapting it through exploration, innovation and development of your solution.

A lot of times, the challenge you are trying to address isn't the challenge that needs to be addressed. Complex challenges are socio-technical, systemic problems that have multi-level stakeholders and ecosystems. To try to address them, we need to identify the different elements within a system, understand how they interact and discern patterns of behavior or influence. Problem-scoping untangles these complicated challenges where various factors are interdependent, enabling stakeholders to see the bigger picture and make more informed decisions. Using methods and methodologies like Transition Design, Systems Mapping and Stakeholder Analysis, you come up with a Research Question that truly looks at addressing a particular part of the system and understanding what the real challenge is.

Co-Design and Participatory Design are collaborative methodologies that engage stakeholders, beneficiaries and end-users in the design process. By facilitating inclusive workshops and utilising participatory interaction and design techniques, co-design is a way of creating with the stakeholders from the early on, so that their input can serve the community you are designing for. This ensures that diverse perspectives are integrated, resulting in innovative, people+/planet-centered and sustainable solutions that address complex socio-ecological challenges.

Design research is the beginning of your problem-solving and solution-building. It incorporates creating a research brief, frameworks and methodologies to determine your stakeholders' challenges, behaviours, needs and opportunities. You explore, expand and understand what challenge are you trying to address. This research continues throughout all four stages of the Design Process: Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver. It includes generating insights, gathering feedback and adapting it through exploration, innovation and development of your solution.

A lot of times, the challenge you are trying to address isn't the challenge that needs to be addressed. Complex challenges are socio-technical, systemic problems that have multi-level stakeholders and ecosystems. To try to address them, we need to identify the different elements within a system, understand how they interact and discern patterns of behavior or influence. Problem-scoping untangles these complicated challenges where various factors are interdependent, enabling stakeholders to see the bigger picture and make more informed decisions. Using methods and methodologies like Transition Design, Systems Mapping and Stakeholder Analysis, you come up with a Research Question that truly looks at addressing a particular part of the system and understanding what the real challenge is.

Co-Design and Participatory Design are collaborative methodologies that engage stakeholders, beneficiaries and end-users in the design process. By facilitating inclusive workshops and utilising participatory interaction and design techniques, co-design is a way of creating with the stakeholders from the early on, so that their input can serve the community you are designing for. This ensures that diverse perspectives are integrated, resulting in innovative, people+/planet-centered and sustainable solutions that address complex socio-ecological challenges.

Design research is the beginning of your problem-solving and solution-building. It incorporates creating a research brief, frameworks and methodologies to determine your stakeholders' challenges, behaviours, needs and opportunities. You explore, expand and understand what challenge are you trying to address. This research continues throughout all four stages of the Design Process: Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver. It includes generating insights, gathering feedback and adapting it through exploration, innovation and development of your solution.

A lot of times, the challenge you are trying to address isn't the challenge that needs to be addressed. Complex challenges are socio-technical, systemic problems that have multi-level stakeholders and ecosystems. To try to address them, we need to identify the different elements within a system, understand how they interact and discern patterns of behavior or influence. Problem-scoping untangles these complicated challenges where various factors are interdependent, enabling stakeholders to see the bigger picture and make more informed decisions. Using methods and methodologies like Transition Design, Systems Mapping and Stakeholder Analysis, you come up with a Research Question that truly looks at addressing a particular part of the system and understanding what the real challenge is.

Co-Design and Participatory Design are collaborative methodologies that engage stakeholders, beneficiaries and end-users in the design process. By facilitating inclusive workshops and utilising participatory interaction and design techniques, co-design is a way of creating with the stakeholders from the early on, so that their input can serve the community you are designing for. This ensures that diverse perspectives are integrated, resulting in innovative, people+/planet-centered and sustainable solutions that address complex socio-ecological challenges.