Languaging designing

Abstract

This article looks at how language can be used in metadesign approaches, processes and tools to foster empathic and considerate design teams. Metadesign places a strong emphasis on language as a tool for designing and communicating. It draws upon my doctoral thesis that considers a range of approaches to co-writing, and our forthcoming book, Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene, which offers a range of perspectives regarding what metadesign teams can and should do to foster change now we have reached this existentially precipitous point in human history. The slow languaging approaches, processes and tools described here are used within my workshops with interdisciplinary teams.