The ‘Dandelion Latte’ came about while researching though design around systems mapping of speculative paradigms, tools and products in the context of equitable innovation and value-creation that takes place within planetary boundaries. I mapped an intentional dichotomy of paradigms’ concepts and vocabulary as a way of researching through design. Its purpose was to get an overview of mindsets, systems and products through a model structure. This serves as a sense-making research exercise that allows me to unpick the existing concepts in order to explore and design from a different path. The basis of my project is that the upstream cause for unsustainable lifestyles that most of us have little choice but to participate in. This is defined by what is being made, with which tools and methods that are societally rewarded and perpetuated. The resulting output is a ‘Second-order Design Fiction’ that reacts to the notion that our dominant tools of progress and value creation (supply chains, business models, measures of success, habits to meet our needs) have stopped working in the intended way they use to, in the light of climate change, uncertainty and changing values.