Everyday Imagination, Practices, Systems. Designing with people for systemic change

In this paper we bring together three different perspectives on collaborative innovation: service design, ethnographically informed innovation, and participatory art practice. All three afford important insights into the opportunities and challenges of ‘changing the change’ for a more sustainable future. We focus on the dynamic and complex, ‘systemic’ nature of change and – against the backdrop of our individual practical experiences – explore how we might design on such shifting ground. In this process, we all seek to harness everyday creativity and DIY solutions to design with as well as for people. Folding this ongoing concern from our individual work into a recently begun collaboration has leveraged powerful synergies for collaborative innovation for more sustainable living and we discuss a planned project.