Slow design
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Slow Design is a relatively new concept of design thinking, a derivative of the slow food movement. Slow Design's implications are vast and yet to be fully explored.
It could mean any of the following:
- Longer design processes with more time for research, contemplation, real life impact tests and fine tuning.
- Design for manufacturing with local/regional materials and technologies or Design that supports local industries, workshops and craftspeople.
- Design that takes into account local/regional culture both as a source of inspiration and as an important consideration for the design outcome.
- Design that studies the concept of natural timecycles and incorporates them into design and manufacturing processes.
- Design that looks at longer cycles of human behavior and sustainability.
- When design work is given to a slow or incompetent member of staff who takes a long time to do the work and then does it all wrong so you have to do it all again anyway.
