Human activities have changed the Earth System to the point where we are in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. This is characterized as a climate crisis with the practices and meanings associated with innovation being challenged. ‘Slow Designers’, including those living in the most climatically vulnerable parts of the Earth, are innovating design practices by building on the heritage and history of local communities and using eco‐friendly materials. These craft‐inspired approaches could mitigate our over reliance on the Earth System. Slow design‐driven innovation (DDI), by translating communities' heritage, history and territorial importance, creates sustainable products that customers love and care for. We contribute to the theory of DDI by bringing together concepts from the Slow Food movement and DDI, coining the term ‘Slow Design‐Driven Innovation’. Slow DDI consists of four actions: envisaging the heritage, featuring the biodiversity in the product, translating traditional techniques into processes for innovative products and narrating a story about the products and their makers to promote new meanings. Managerially, this contributes to a model of responsible production that confronts current practices in today's climate crisis, as the products are long‐lasting, high quality and are created using local organic materials, thereby protecting biodiversity.

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缓慢的设计驱动型创新：人类时代对我们未来的回应

人类的活动已经改变了地球系统，使我们处在一个新的地质时代人类世。这被描述为气候危机，与创新相关的实践和意义受到挑战。“慢速设计师”，包括生活在地球上最易受气候影响的地区的设计师，正在以当地社区的遗产和历史为基础，并使用生态友好型材料来创新设计实践。这些受工艺启发的方法可以减轻我们对地球系统的过度依赖。缓慢的设计驱动型创新（DDI）通过转换社区的遗产，历史和地域重要性，创造出客户喜爱和关心的可持续产品。我们将慢食运动和DDI的概念融合在一起，为DDI理论做出了贡献，创造了“缓慢的设计驱动型创新”一词。慢速DDI包含四个操作：设想遗产，以产品中的生物多样性为特征，将传统技术转化为创新产品的流程，并叙述有关产品及其制造商的故事，以推广新的含义。在管理上，这有助于建立一种负责任的生产模式，以应对当今气候危机中的当前做法，因为这些产品经久耐用，品质优良，并使用当地的有机材料制成，从而保护了生物多样性。