The Decline of Pollinators in Pittsburgh: Visioning the Future

An issue with the modern solutioning process is that our solutions do not have a higher goal in mind. The higher goal, in this case, is a sustainable future for pollinators. We are so stuck in our present that we don’t let ourselves dream of the myriad ways the future can be different. That job is often left to artists, but it really should be incorporated into how we think of our current system, so to give us direction. This assignment has two parts. In the first exercise, we envision aspects of how our wicked problem has been resolved on five levels of society: household, neighborhood, city, region, planet. We start with putting down one feature of society we believe should be in the future at any level. Since any one feature inevitably affects/is affected by another level, we follow that feature up and down the strata of society. Digging deeper, most aspects are quite closely connected to multiple other aspects, but we attempt to categorize in order to reveal a sort of pattern. <a href="https://medium.com/transition-design-seminar-2023/the-decline-of-pollinators-in-pittsburgh-visioning-the-future-7c8365845482">Website</a>