This document outlines a process for redesigning design practices called "Dig, Frame, Play, Future". It involves four steps: 1) DIG - Explore histories and contexts to understand existing systems. 2) FRAME - Reframe problems by considering broader contexts and stakeholder needs. 3) PLAY - Generate ideas through hands-on exploration and iteration. 4) FUTURE - Design with an eye towards shifting behaviors and power structures to create better futures.

1. December 2021
Lee-Sean Huang
ls@foossa.com
@leesean
Dig, Frame, Play, Future

2. Let’s design a better future. Together.

3. Inspire
Possibility
Stories
Engage
Participation
Spaces
Enable
Power
Shift
How we think
about our design
practice?

4. How do you begin?

5. With “who”
With “how”
With “why”

6. With process
With designing how we design

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8. Set constraints

9. Create a shared
process / playbook

10. We are researchers
facilitators
translators
makers
+ more

11. How do we
(re)design how
we design?

12. 1
DIG

13. dsi.sva.edu

19. There is no blank slate.
Explore histories and genealogies.
Keep digging.

20. 2
FRAME

24. Purpose

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33. Imagine your
favorite/ideal
co
ff
ee cup.

34. Imagine a better way
to enjoy co
ff
ee at
home or in the o
ffi
ce.

35. It doesn’t have to be a cup

36. GE Adventure
Series
Doug Dietz
TEDx Talk

37. From pharmaceutical problem
to engagement problem

38. (Re)frame the context of
the problem/opportunity.

39. 3
PLAY

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41. Mumbo Jumbo Maracas
Head(banger)phones

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48. KRILL
YOUR
DARLINGS
KRILL

52. Kigali Genocide Museum

53. IDEAS FOR SURVIVORS, VISITORS AND AEGIS/KGM

54. Design is a dialogue.
Set the stage to get hands-on.
Get lost to get found.
Just start. Edit later.

55. 4
FUTURE

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in
its
next
larger
context
—
a
chair
in
a
room, a
room
in
a
house,
a house in an environment,
an
environment
in
a
city
plan.
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“
a house in an environment,

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58. Design is future-making.
Possibility stories make sense of
context and systems.
Innovation is about shifting
behaviors and power.

59. December 2021
Lee-Sean Huang
ls@foossa.com
@leesean
Dig, Frame, Play, Future