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Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation
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The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability.In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; so
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Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
February 27th 2015
by MIT Press
(first published February 13th 2015)
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This pairs very well with Geek Heresy by Kentaro Toyama -- how can we better think about design as something the people who have to live with the results can do, rather than some designers in a room somewhere or designers parachuting in for a weekend, running a workshop, and leaving the results? Manzini (and Toyama) think about and practice on-the-ground work that helps the people facing problems -- teachers, farmers, and so on -- build and sustain what works for them.
Excellent book, not for social innovation, but to explain the power of design to change our relations and the power of human society
Good intro to social design. Used it to augment my intro to design class and will be going back to reference :)
Appropriate for people interested in contribution of design as knowledge to social innovation.
Academic reading with good range of examples.
Academic reading with good range of examples.
Oct 30, 2015
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Some provocative questions come up in this read. What will design look like 10 years from now?
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