What is Redesign?
Redesign is a methodology that re-imagines public and non-profit policy and services in order to deliver dramatically greater value (better outcomes/affordable prices). Redesign is a growing, creative discipline that complements other management methodologies, such as strategic planning and process improvement.
The typical approach to problems of public management is to do careful analysis in order to find "the right answer." That analysis rests on certain assumptions about how public and non-profit services should be delivered. Analysis is important when working within a given paradigm. By its nature it is not inventive. When creative new ideas are sought, design is a more useful approach.
Redesign involves a thorough challenge to the assumptions and incentives that underlie each system managers inherit, and utilizes an open process for developing new solutions.
What is The RE: DESIGN Project?
Re:DESIGN is a teaching and learning community that operates as a project of the Center for Policy Design.
We exist to prepare future leaders to transform the public systems that often fail to serve the public and too often serve to perpetuate inequities.
We are focused on pre-career and mid-career leaders dedicated to producing public goods, including community organizers.
Re:DESIGN includes a virtual network of practitioners who are skilled in teaching design as a discipline, as well as facilitating and producing redesigns that advance the common good. Most are in a third decade of sucessfully implemented redesigns of public and non-profit systems. Many have won national awards. ALL have produced dramatic results.
What are the Activities of The Re: DESIGN Project?
To promote the use of design for the common good, the project will provide an online curriculum, exchange information via “professional” meetings, hold educational forums to train design practices and publish writings to encourage and explain redesign.