The Scientific Method, Design Thinking & Creative Embodiment

The scientific method opened the door for a quality of engineering our ancestors, were they alive today, might call magic.

Design thinking is opening the door for a quality of design that serves human needs with greater precision and accuracy.

Both the scientific method and design thinking are processes engaging in divergence and convergence, hypothesis and testing, theory, practice, and adaptive learning.

Human problems are notoriously hard to solve because we contain so much that is beyond measurement.

I believe, as our understanding of the human body, brain and consciousness evolve, so will our capacity to consciously engage in lives/a world with greater flourishing, more enriching cooperation, and more life-affirming action.

In the meantime, we require shared language and processes for working across our diverse frameworks to begin to cooperate on our endeavors.

At Elegance Lab, I am developing a process for empowering tranformative leaders called Creative Embodiment.

Creative Embodiment fuses methods in somatic/embodiment healing oriented toward wholeness, and creative, conscious evolution based in envisioning greater thriving and holisitic change.

These two methods (embodiment and creativity) hold a fundamental parallel: development in either space requires expansion and contraction, convergence and divergence.

Like the scientific process and design thinking, creative embodiment is non-linear and is part of an emergent process.

Also like the scientific method and design thinking, creative embodiment is not inherently positive. While I hold a vision for it informing a life-affirming world, it’s important to note: the scientific process paved the way for electricity and the atomic bomb. Design Thinking can allow for more elegant products, and more addictive, soul-deadening technologies.

No process of uncovering potential (of atoms, products or humans) can replace the power of human choice.

This being said, just as healing trauma in the body opens up possibility in choice that didn’t exist prior, and the imagination sees what hasn’t been done before… creative embodiment can pave the way for collaborative action that hasn’t yet been possible.

As science birthed a new age of engineering, and design thinking birthed a new age of design, I believe creative embodiment can birth a new age of compassion, creative visioning, and collaborative action.

It will be on us to decide in which direction we use it for.

To connect around building a world we feel excited to leave to future generations, reach out at create@lib-hof.com or schedule a call here.