The Glasgow School of Art's definition of Transformation Design

The Glasgow School of Art is offering an interesting course on design innovation:

"Rather than taking a perspective on design which works from the materials to the contexts of production, the M.Des in Design Innovation will profile an approach to the field of design from the other direction, working from users and social contexts back to the materials. The curriculum and content of the M.Des in Dsign Innovation is built around three specialist pathways - in Transformation Design, Environmental Design, and Service Design. "

They provide nice descriptions of each discipline, but I'm particularly interested in how they describe Transformation Design:

"With Transformation Design, the role of the designer moves from that of communicating function, controlling form and determining the experience of design objects, to that of inspiring participation, enabling possibilities and supporting on-going system-wide design and redesign. The facilitation of innovative, productive and creative design processes, that is, are prioritized over the delivery of end products; skills, methods and possibilities are communicated to users in order to enhance social and cultural modes of interaction with design."

I find this interesting for a few reasons: 

1. It speaks to the one of my principles that "everyone is a designer" - we are all creating solutions and experiences in this world. 
   
2. It speaks to the idea of creating generative, evolutionary systems. Something I've long loved talking about and think important to future company/customer/culture relations and innovation. 
3. But most interestingly, the description mentions nothing about uplifting society or transforming people's lives for the better. Instead it uses transformation to describe a system people step into that is self-evolving: "...inspiring participation, enabling possibilities and supporting on-going system-wide design and redesign." This happens to be a line of thought that aligns with one of my favorite thinkers:
   

   “The only acceptable finality for human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.” 

   Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm