A Good Place to Start
Design Thinking for Life. Designing culture and togetherness.
If we all learned to think and build like designers, could we design our environment to help us thrive? Maybe our home, where we get real, is good place to start.
This question started me on the journey here. I wanted to bring my diverse experience in design into family life, two worlds that matter deeply to me and feel so obviously connected, yet are rarely talked about together. So I started writing here to make sense of things and will continue to use this space to document my thinking process, share unpolished thoughts, experiment, and co-create.
What to Expect
The content here is split into four topics:
1. Things to Copy from Designers
Here, I look at what design as a practice offers that is useful to our day-to-day life. What mindsets, tools, and skills are relevant, and how might non-designers apply them effectively?
2. DIY Guide to Designing Family Culture
This is where I put the mindsets, tools, and skills worth copying in the context of family life and culture. It’s a space for practical guides, as well as alternative approaches to common challenges families face, one that supports connection, collaboration, and everyday learning.
3. Knock Knock. May I Enter your Home?
This is where I connect with families (and also dig deep into my own) to understand what goes on in their homes, their challenges, needs, and hopes.
4. Designing Together
This is where I explore what Designing Together means, with a focus on together, because it’s something many of us struggle with, myself included. I look at new ways to work together with other families, with my children, and within my community.
Take what helps you, leave what doesn’t.
Join me, share with me, design with me.
Design is collaborative by nature. And I need real stories in order to understand families beyond my own. If you’d like to work with me, share your ideas, or simply talk about your messy family life, I’d love to hear from you.
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