Intervention Design Pattern Library

Intervention Design Thinking is a power-literate, trauma-informed, relational approach to systems change that integrates political analysis, design practice, and ethical intention to create interventions that shift structures, behaviors, and worldviews with care.

Intervention Design Pattern Library

Resources

“Intervention Design Thinking: A Power-Literate Framework for Weaving Regenerative Futures Across Systems,” by Aram Saroyan Armstrong (Regenerative Arts and Design Studio). Read the full paper.

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The Intervention Design Thinking Google Site hosts additional visual and reference material, including a framework overview and research notes.

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02 — REFERENCES

References

Eisler, R. (1987). The chalice and the blade: Our history, our future. Harper & Row.

Fuller, R. B. (1969). Operating manual for Spaceship Earth. Southern Illinois University Press.

Geels, F. W. (2002). Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: A multi-level perspective and a case-study. Research Policy, 31(8–9), 1257–1274.

Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.

Irwin, T., Tonkinwise, C., & Kossoff, G. (2015). Transition design: An educational framework for advancing the study and design of sustainable transitions. Proceedings of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network Conference.

Kahane, A. (2017). Power and love: A theory and practice of social change. Berrett-Koehler.

Meadows, D. (1999). Leverage points: Places to intervene in a system. Sustainability Institute.

Meyer, M. A. (2016). Connecting education and environment: Mobilizing sustainability in education, research, policy, and practice. Sustainability and Education Policy Network.

Simon, H. A. (1969). The sciences of the artificial. MIT Press.


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