ABSTRACT
This chapter examines approaches of design strategy that initiate and support embodied learning and knowing within nuanced moments of individual experience, and considers how impact might be defined in light of these approaches. Impact is a word like force. It implies strong movement and change. Impact can have a covert relationship to the site of creative intervention responsible for instigating resultant change. Strategic insight - seeing in systems, understanding how the experience of one person can be reproduced to affect many - requires an ability to comprehend potential movements through various system scales. Design research borrows from traditional anthropology, attempting to gain insight into motivations and behaviors by analyzing and interpreting the present and the past present moments. Prototypes can assume many forms and perform many roles in the design process, and are not limited to penultimate manifestations of the final design articulation. All acts of organization, at any scale begin with identity formation.
