||This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or
discuss these issues on the talk page. Metadesign (or meta-
design) is an emerging conceptual framework aimed at defining
and creating social, economic and technical infrastructures in
which new forms of collaborative design can take place. It
consists of a series of practical design-related tools for
achieving this. As a methodology, its aim is to nurture
emergence of the previously unthinkable as possibilities or
prospects through the collaboration of designers within
interdisciplinarity 'metadesign' teams. Inspired by the way
living systems work, this new field aims to help improve the way
we feed, clothe, shelter, assemble, communicate and live
together. The Need for Metadesign  In order to address the
impending ecological catastrophe it will be vital to change the
average person’s mindset and behaviour. However, governments are
unlikely to achieve this, especially with a ‘targets and
penalties’ approach because the global economy is driven by a