DESIGNCRACY

What is Designcracy?

Designcracy is a design concept.

Designcracy is a newborn (infant) system which is born, to precisely deal with and solve current problems mentioned in before chapter in order to gradually and with logical attitude and understanding of the roots of all these problems one by one through its “open-source, decentralized synergy of the wise and the elite” development strategy.

Designcracy is a hypothesis that in one sentence, is "trying to identify the causes of present and future problems of the triad (human, society and environment) and solve them with the help of Design instead of solving it through Politics and rituals and similar tools of the pasts."

Designcracy simply says that the design of a combine harvester with higher productivity and a lower cost is more useful or at least complementary to the presentation of thousands of complex political theories and sociological doctrines about agriculture, to improve living conditions. With design, many seemingly political and sociological problems but inherently technological ones can be easily solved. Going on with this example, let me recall the “Homestead Act”, signed and implemented by Abraham Lincoln in 1862. Under the law, every citizen could own 160 acres of land in the western regions of the United States but provided on a little condition: all people had to build a house there and work on the land for five years. Consequently, the land would be used properly and productively, and the economic conditions of the citizens (and all USA) would be improved as the results of their work and effort and production on these lands. The point is that although this law was fully implemented, but until a harmless for cattle fences was not designed, it actually caused a lot of local conflicts between the winners and losers of this law. During the implementation, livestock of some people entered other people's farms and all their efforts were reduced to rubble. Or the fencing was such that it killed cattle and caused a conflict between the owner of the livestock and the owner of the land, until Joseph Glidden designed and mass produced the barbed wire we all know today. He did something with his barbed wire which the signing and full implementation of the Homestead Act together with high doctrines behind it could not achieve its goals without, because in 1870 the Department of Agriculture had practically come to the conclusion that the western United States would not be practically viable until the fencing system works properly. I mentioned this historical event in order to ...

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