Design Steward
Tailor Driver Spry

A strategic design practice specialising in design stewardship.

Kandure applies strategic design practice directly to development of a design stewardship framework that’s right for the people and operations at your organisation.

>>>> The steward ensures we leaves things better than we found them – for the now and for the distant tomorrow. The tailor shapes for nuances – one size simply doesn’t suit all. The driver steadily steers design culture, while the adaptive spry designs and produces communications and touchpoints.

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Set on a bedrock of strategic design, stewardship and trust, Kandure’s practice is an interplay of these guiding principles:

 

A diagram of Kandure's 6 principles and sphere of interplays

People-centric

>>>> Participatory

Participatory design practices where shared agency and conditions inform choices, shape direction.

 

Values-led

>>>> Principled

Strategic design to discern, develop and deliver outcomes which propagate principles and values.

 

Purpose-based

>>>> Purposeful

Design activities that align with an entity’s raison d’être, modus operandi, current and long-term priorities.

Cause-oriented

>>>> Proceptual

Design work which connects concepts and processes, differentiates constraints, calibrates impact.

 

Opportunity-focused

>>>> Progressive

Collaborative activities geared to strategic, adaptive, sustainable ESG-positive solutions or outcomes.

 

Design-driven

>>>> Pragmatic

Embedding design literacy, skills and stewardship into organisational culture to maximise strategic capability.

Kandure specialises in development and embedding of a design stewardship framework that elevates design as a strategic capability across an organisational culture.

 

From Nadine Uremovic, Kandure’s Principal:

I work with organisations wanting to steward and maximise design as a strategic capability. With a focus on research, engagement, facilitation and communication, my experience has highlighted that organisations who intentionally activate design in and across all levels navigate the currents more easily, make more informed decisions and have greater impact.

Nadine is a member of the Design Institute of Australia and The Design Research Society. See LinkedIn profile.

 

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Case for Design Stewardship to Elevate Strategic Capability
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