BERLIN DESIGN WEEK

Design+Science

All around us are systems of separation, divided by faith, ethnicity, nationality, and financial power, to name a few. Too often the focus is on separation, rather than connection. Our social, economic, and political systems are increasingly stressed due to several manmade errors. Over the last 100 years, first science and then society have undergone a paradigm shift. New holistic, ecological, and systemic concepts explaining reality are replacing the old mechanistic ones, coined by grandmasters from another era of thought. Quantum theory, the cognitive sciences, Gestalt psychology, and the new Science of Spirituality are but a few outcomes of this paradigm shift. Parallel to this development, the social fabric and cultural backdrop to our shared experience changed radically. On the one hand, we are expanding our physical reality by integrating virtual reality, on the other hand, there is a growing disease of despair and materialistic meaninglessness.
The Master Thesis How to Design a System of Togetherness? examines the critical relationship between individual (inner) consciousness and large-scale (outer) societal transitions. The thesis explores the emergence of a new, integrative worldview as a pivotal concept for systemic change. It emphasizes the importance of meso-level changes (regime level), such as new indices, laws, and policies. The Thesis advocates for a dual approach, combining individual transformation with structural societal changes, to foster a universal sense of connectedness and cultivate a System of Togetherness with the whole community of life.