'Creating mediators' relates to empowering people to regain their capacity to participate in designing their own environment and using their unique creative skills to create the artefacts they need.
This strategy addresses the potential of design to become a mediation tool that supports people in sustainable life habits. It also reminds us that as designers we should address human needs and not necessarily strive for the industrial production of more products.
This notion is explored by creating designs that mediate between an individual and the materials or resources he might find in his surrounding environment, thus enabling him to locate and use the existing potential.
On another level a design can create ways for the user to participate in a product’s creation process by introducing creative kits that support users in producing their own daily objects.