1. Goals Articulation
   1. Designer, client, stakeholders: Articulate your goals.
   2. Methods:
      1. Gaia U 4 questions
         1. What is going well today?
         2. What is challenging?
         3. What are the long-term goals and visions?
         4. What is the next achievable step?
      2. Visioning and backcasting
      3. Story-telling
      4. HolisticGoal Setting (HMI)
      5. Generating Desired Conditions
         1. Active Voice
         2. Present Tense
         3. Makes the goals very real. Resonance. State desired conditions as a mantra to manifest the future.
      6. Identify desired elements of the design
   3. Carefully define the problem, question or intention.
   4. Differentiate and relate your values, goals, and criteria
2. Observation, Analysis, Assessment
   1. Unguided observation. Be present and sensing. Suspend analysis/assessment. Be and intuit.
   2. Guided observation and data collection
      1. Surveying, basemapping
      2. Topography, sectors, aspect
      3. Soils, water
      4. Microclimates
      5. Regulations, boundaries (legal)
      6. Broader ecosocial context of situation
      7. Existing resources (human, energy, financial, ecological, social)
      8. Current patterns of activity
      9. Interview the client (see goals articulation).
   3. Analysis: Break it down.
      1. Create distinct 'pieces/collections' of data from the mass generated
      2. Cluster into themed maps.
      3. Overlay themed maps and watch patterns emerge.
         1. Ian McHarg, Design with Nature
   4. Assessment: Appraise/evaluate the observations/data in light of the articulated goals.
3. Design Concept Development
   1. Wait. Make sure Goals Articulation and Observation, Analysis and Assessment are sufficiently complete. Preparation pays off.
   2. Exist in the dynamic tension (Fritz) and the 'space of not knowing' (Jacke). Consider the two states (now and goals realized).
   3. Suspend the voice of judgement, and generate, ideate, dream. Rapid prototype designs. More output!
   4. What is the nucleus of the design? Where is the profound simplicity?
   5. Design Concept: Central organizing idea, and a context-specific vision.
   6. Integrates entire design and guides later design.
4. Design
   1. Schematic Design (from big patterns)
      1. Expand concept to sketchy but specific level.
      2. Schematic design might discover concept.
      3. Focus on overall layout, patterning, relationships between functions/elements.
      4. Rapid-prototyping. Generate many options. 'Graphic brainstorming.'
      5. Rough bubble diagrams with notes, evaluations.
      6. Group decision making
      7. Business Model Generation canvas
   2. Detailed Design ( to smaller details)
      1. Take the chosen schematic to a more refined and defined design
      2. Get exact!
      3. Clean drawings, diagrams, market analysis, enterprise plans.
      4. Detailed outputs (reports, timeliness, budgets, materials, implementation and maintenance plans, etc.)
      5. Feasibility Study
      6. Detailed spatial design.
      7. Succession planning
      8. Ensure functional interconnectedness of the elements.
5. Implementation
   1. Concrete Experience, Active Experimentation.
   2. Phase implementation to suit goals, client's budget, energy, priorities and landscape needs
   3. Expect the unexpected. Stay flexible and design on the fly.
   4. Use project management tools
      1. PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Techniques
      2. Analytical estimating
      3. Gantt Charts
6. Evaluation
   1. Reflective Observation (RO)
   2. Reflect on design process, measure effectiveness of praxis.
   3. Evaluate time and cost estimates
   4. Evaluate current of design and implementation.
   5. Client/group discussions/debrief.
   6. Develop observation and documentation systems
7. Approaches
   1. Analytical?
      1. Pitfalls
         1. Stuck in a box
         2. Failure to observe undermines design
         3. Design concept generation is often creative
      2. Generate concrete, hypothetical deductions
      3. Use design frameworks and processes
      4. Apply prior knowledge
   2. Intuitive?
      1. Be present and sensing.
      2. Connect and create
      3. Let go of the ego, engage the present, and rapid-prototype the future.
      4. Channel collective design intelligence.
      5. Pitfalls
         1. Emotional issues may cloud design
         2. Failure to articulate our processes is a failure to support allies.
   3. Integrate, don't Segregate!
      1. How?
         1. Deep observation, present sensing is complemented by structured/guided surveying and data collection.
         2. Intuition and analysis are both included in the design cycle.
         3. Test intuition with analysis
8. Design lives within us
   1. We are natural designers
   2. 'The techniques serve only as touchstones to connect each of us to our own living creative process' (D. Jacke).