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The design component is the core of SEE-Me. It is where participants apply the foundational concepts of transactions, organization, coordination, and digital markets to the intentional design of a real ecosystem addressing a concrete economic or societal challenge.
Rather than beginning with a product, platform, or policy intervention, the design process starts with a desired outcome and works outward to design the system required to achieve and sustain that outcome. This reflects the central premise of SEE-Me: markets and ecosystems should be designed around purpose, participation, and incentives rather than retrofitted after failure.
Over a two-month studio-based challenge supported by weekly mentor clinics, participants work in teams to design a viable ecosystem. They identify the participants required for the system to function, analyse how value is created and exchanged, design participation journeys, and examine the incentives, governance structures, and data mechanisms needed to support coordination and trust.
The outcome of the design studio is a coherent ecosystem and market design that makes explicit how participation, incentives, coordination, and value flows operate within the proposed system. These designs serve as blueprints for new forms of economic participation and provide partners with structured insight into how markets could function differently.
Where appropriate, teams may optionally explore operationalising elements of their design using the Dataswyft Wallet Suite to illustrate how identity, data, consent, and verification could function within the ecosystem. This step is exploratory and serves to make the design tangible rather than to build a full technical solution.
Throughout the studio, the emphasis remains on system design rather than solution development, ensuring that technology follows market and ecosystem design rather than determining it.
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