One Design

An umbrella term for the all-inclusive conception of design that builds on ideas such as:

  • one health, planetary health, evolutionary medicine, one medicine
  • one welfare
  • one rights, including animal rights 1, nature rights, etc.

and possible plausible extensions such as:

  • one justice (a better take than one right, maybe one law? Earth jurisprudence), Intersectionality, ecological justice
  • one community
  • one future

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Definition

One design is an approach that includes all stakeholders as clients and co-authors in all design actions.

To address reasonable social studies concerns expressed about the notion of "one world, one health", 2 this does not mean one approach, one knowledge, one culture, any top down or centralised coordination. One here simply refers to all having a say and a go in an interconnected world.

Feasibility

Until recently the notion of rights for nonhuman beings tended to be dismissed as nonsensical.

However, in legal history every extensions of rights to a new group used to be seen as "unthinkable". 3


Footnotes

  1. Stucki, Saskia. One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Cham: Springer, 2023.˄

  2. Craddock, Susan, and Steve Hinchliffe. ‘One World, One Health? Social Science Engagements with the One Health Agenda’. Social Science & Medicine, 129 (2015): 1–4. https://doi.org/10/gp8q6x.˄

  3. Stone, Christopher. Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. See the original article: Stone, Christopher D. ‘Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects’. Southern California Law Review, no. 45 (1972): 450–501.˄


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