Symbiotic Design Framework the Book Rethinking Design from within

The framework's own source text. Raineri reframes design itself as an autopoietic — self-creating — social system, drawing rigorously on systems biology (Maturana and Varela), cybernetics and Luhmann's sociology to ask how design might be reoriented in an age of ecological and social crisis. Not a book to relate to the SDF: this is the SDF, the origin of every component, motto and facet the rest of this list is read through. The book sets out design as a discipline that sustains and evolves through its own internal operations, an autopoietic social system in the sense used by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, read together with cybernetics and Niklas Luhmann's sociology. It asks designers to move beyond shaping individual objects or patching already-flawed systems, toward stewarding relationships over time and treating design itself as a political act. The publisher describes it as aimed at design theorists, doctoral researchers, educators and advanced practitioners, alongside professionals in systems thinking, sustainability and social innovation.