These are the slides that accompanied my introduction to a discussion on Social Design in a Service Design network meetup in Helsinki 04.02.2014.
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4. 0.2 million years
160 million years
Dinosaur designed by Tiago Rodrigues from the Noun Project; Man designed by Sean Patrick Quinn from the Noun Project
8. All Design is social, as design is the enactment of
human instinct and a construct that facilitates the
materialisation of our world… that we all tend to
design by changing existing situations into
preferred ones.
- Alastair Fuad-Luke, Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a
Sustainable World
9. All Design is social, as design is the enactment of
human instinct and a construct that facilitates the
materialisation of our world… that we all tend to
design by changing existing situations into
preferred ones.
While the primary purpose of design for the market
is creating products for sale… the foremost intent of
social design is satisfaction of human needs.
- Alastair Fuad-Luke, Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a
Sustainable World
10. All Design is social, as design is the enactment of
human instinct and a construct that facilitates the
materialisation of our world… that we all tend to
design by changing existing situations into
preferred ones.
While the primary purpose of design for the market
is creating products for sale… the foremost intent of
social design is satisfaction of human needs.
Designing new functionings to elevate individual and
community capability, and enabling solutions that
genuinely empower and extend the capability
of the user.
- Alastair Fuad-Luke, Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a
Sustainable World
13. Social Design:
• Aid
• Arts & Culture
• Communication
• Community
• Education
• Environment
• Peace
• Poverty
• Well-being
http://www.design21sdn.com/
15. Purpose of Designing
• Survive
• Improve
• Develop
• Thrive
• Evolve
• Serve Others
• Make something of lasting quality
• Create something of real consequence
• Participate in the never-ending genesis
Harold G. Nelson, Erik Stolterman - The Design Way
25. Wicked Problems
A class of social system problems which are illformulated, where the information is confusing,
where there are many clients and decision makers
with conflicting values, and where the ramification
in the whole system are thoroughly confusing
Horst Rittel, Melvin M. Webber - Dilemmas in a general
theory of planning
26. Wicked Problems
A class of social system problems which are illformulated, where the information is confusing,
where there are many clients and decision makers
with conflicting values, and where the ramification
in the whole system are thoroughly confusing
...difficult or impossible to solve because
of incomplete, contradictory, and changing
requirements that are often difficult to recognize.
Horst Rittel, Melvin M. Webber - Dilemmas in a general
theory of planning
36. How could we..?
• Within our commercial projects
• Through social projects
• Online Design projects
• Support Open Source, Alternative Economies
• Helping the person next-door
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