Thinking Foundations is a design-led exploration of how we think, as individuals and in groups. The work is aimed at designers, technologists, and design theorists interested in how design practice can shape the interfaces through which thinking happens in AI-mediated environments. It asks how we might engage these conditions with clarity and imagination, sustaining human-centred ways of thinking in an increasingly computational world.

 

In its current form, the project is an emerging knowledge base organised around three core frames:

 

• Thinking Tools: The mental models, heuristics, and conceptual frameworks individuals use to interpret situations, reason through uncertainty, and decide how to act.

• Thinking Structures: The social, organisational, and technical systems that shape how thought moves beyond the individual — how it is coordinated, recorded, measured, automated, and sustained across teams, institutions, platforms, and time.

• Speculative Interfaces: A critical and imaginative design practice that explores how human–machine interaction might evolve, and what new forms of exchange could emerge.

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