Human beings have always been dependent on the nature, their environment and their fellow beings for sustenance. We have somehow forgotten about this delicate balance, causing a disconnect within all the industries, restricting the speed of progress and innovation, and causing an economic, environmental and social imbalance. The need of the hour is to bring back a new awareness and sensitivity towards our approach towards the fundamental production and marketing of materials and services, by redesigning our core interactions.

The future is about creative inter-disciplinary collaborations, where we not only work on managing the existing systems or creating new inventions; but also work on turning known liabilities (organic/ inorganic) into assets. These new collaborations should be circular in nature and multilayered in their inclusion of arts, culture, social heritage and political ideologies, to bring about a truly transformative disruption within the micro ecosystems we see today.

Designers have a major role to play in making this inter-dependence possible. The role of designers now has transformed from the creators of aesthetics, sensory experiences and ergonomics; to that of leaders, industrialists, policy makers, researchers and inventors. The creative community needs to self-organize to start ideating and prototyping these tasks, and move beyond the conventional to essentially start reshaping the future.

This future also calls for an increased number of public-private partnerships, in the field of construction, all small and big industries, health services, urbanism (traditional and neuro-urbanism), education, lifestyle goods and events, and farming and food production. These projects should aim at enabling a comprehensive database, easy collaborations, material reuse, better urban approach, community engagement, profit distribution, et al. Shortly, we need to maximize the potential of both, the material industries and the people as individualistic workforce, to bring in an influx of innovative goods and services.

There is a need for a unified global network of collaborators for the same, linked together through various platform services and AI for ease of access and intervention. Collating the availability of big data bundles, physical industrial waste, excessive manpower, and other unexploited resources can create an extensive network of ideas, that can further be made available through regulated services. These interactions can be designed as organic loops that evolve into a brand-new system with every intervention, to create a more layered and complex economy that is self-sustaining, eco-conscious and socially inclusive.

The future businesses, thus, not only optimize their internal flow of organization through a better mapping of skill sets and the use of AI, but can also plug into each other across various fields to create interesting collaborations, eventually building a new revenue system. A better design of existing systems, that favors quality over quantity, and factors in the diverse co-species and natural matter, will not only bring the world closer in a closed loop through a wide idea network, but also create a truly inclusive and sensitive ecosystem that cares for all.