Causal Designer
I design from questions most people don't think to ask.
I'm Christin Farmer. A designer, researcher, and creator of original frameworks, models, methodologies, and experiences. I look beneath the surface of problems, trace patterns back to what produces them, and design new ways of thinking, being, doing, and living. My work sits at the intersection of systems, culture, consciousness, and design.
MY DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
I DESIGN WHAT MAKES CHANGE POSSIBLE.
We can’t create a different outcome while keeping the same conditions, interventions, experiences, systems, and pathways that produced the one we’re trying to change.
So I design new ones.
Conditions. Interventions. Experiences. Systems. Pathways.
I look at what’s producing the reality in front of us, then design what needs to be different for something else to become possible.
Because sometimes the problem isn’t that change hasn’t happened yet. It’s that the conditions don’t allow change to happen at all.
01
Question
I don't assume the way things are is the way they have to be. I question what created them in the first place.
02
Understand
I get close to the experience. I research, observe, immerse , and look beneath the surface until I understand what's actually happening.
03
Redesign
Then I design something different. New conditions, interventions, experiences, systems, or pathways that can change what's possible.
04
Transform
My goal is always to create the ideal conditions that make change possible and allow something new to emerge.
HOW I GOT HERE
Making The Invisible Visible
I've spent years working inside organizations, communities, and systems, building programs, raising millions of dollars, developing organizations, teaching, researching, and solving problems.
But eventually I realized something:
I was less interested in fixing broken systems than I was in imagining what could exist beyond them.
That's where the blueprint work began.
But I've always been a designer, even before I had language for it.
I was constantly experimenting with ideas, aesthetics, systems, identities, experiences, and ways of doing things differently. What once looked like an inability to fit neatly into existing structures now makes perfect sense to me.
I'm not particularly interested in fitting the mold. I'm interested in asking who made the mold, and what we can design instead.
FROM THE STUDIO
BRING ME SOMETHING WORTH REDESIGNING
A problem. A system. An experience. An idea. A question you've been sitting with. I'll get underneath it, figure out what's producing it, and explore what we could design instead.
