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Transition design is the incorporation of the projected and future needs of a social system, economic project, environmental management, economic system, and community construction into the current efforts that address current un-solvable, wicked problems. It presumes that the group involved in projects work together toward the same goals. Transition design applied to a system may take a significant period of time to achieve and require a number of steps. Applying transition design to problems requires implementing changes in steps to reach a future goal that may be decades away. Transition design is a design approach that takes into account the current unsustainability of ways of living. It combines acceptable and traditional principles of design with ongoing solutions to social, economic and ecological problems.

Transition design had its beginning in the Transition town movement. This was the effort to develop locally based food and energy systems and local currencies and businesses.

It is associated with complex problems such as sustainability and urban design.an academic field of study that describes and then develops approaches to solving sustainability problems related to present and future social and environmental problems. This approach to complex problems allows for the development of possible solutions to these problems. Transition design proposes solutions to poverty, economic inequality, biodiversity loss, and decline of community, resource depletion, pollution and climate change.

Transition design was first applied in 2006 in the development and planning of a small community. An example of the application of Transition design in this community's early planning was to build in the steps that would make a project sustainable and able to reduce the harms to the environment instead of continued reliance of fossil fuels. The planning included incremental steps or goals that would achieve this end. The same community applied Transition design principles and incorporated the incremental steps that would eventually result in the community being able to provide much of their need for permaculture, inexpensive and healthy food. Transition Design can be applied to problems that are occurring simultaneously. The term Transition design and its application was further described in 2011 to and include building in Transitional design process to provide a plan to establish sustainable social structure. Transition design was described by Gideon Kossoff in the book, Grow Small, Think Beautiful: Ideas for a Sustainable World in the chapter called 'Holism and the Reconstitution of Everyday Life: A Framework for the Transition to a Sustainable Society'. Transition design was further expanded to address political problems.

Transition design developed from the writing of Guy Debord and Richard Tarnas.

Transition design uses principles of sustainability applied to households, neighborhoods, villages, cities, regions to address the needs in larger at all levels of scale——'The Domains of Everyday Life'. Many localities that have applied Transition Design into their future and sustainable planning.