How could we prototype a social design practice?
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1) The document discusses emerging practices in social design, including critiques of social design and transformative design approaches. 2) It explores challenges for designers in social design contexts where personal authorship is lost, behavior is shaped rather than products, and design is never truly finished. 3) The document outlines research goals around prototyping social practices and questions around redefining designers' roles, embedded design, and new aesthetics of formless design.
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How could we prototype a social design practice?
- 1. Design for social innovation From critique to prototyping an emerging practice Aditya Pawar! PhD student, Umea Institute of Design A brief presentation to fellow design doctoral students on the big debates in social design. June 2014
- 2. Critique: Purgatory of (social) design Philips Chulha Stove Life- Straw One laptop per child There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few of them. ! - Victor Papanek, Design for the real world
- 3. Transformative + Design Transformative design is meant to express a way of living well, while at the same time consuming fewer resources and generating new patterns of social cohabitation ! - Burns, Cottam, Vanstone and Winhall, RED Report
- 4. Why this is an ‘emerging’ practice 1 The loss of personal creative authorship 2 Shaping behaviour rather than form 3 Transformation design is never done 4 Creativity happens in run-time, not just in design-time 5 Diversity over quality 6 Design becomes a pro+amateur community Challenges to designers/ researchers
- 5. Research goal: Prototyping Practices …..we aim to 'prototype' not objects or services but practices in order to experiment and explore the implications of social, cultural and technological changes and challenges to design….. ! !
- 6. Research questions ! a. Redefining the designer’s role and capabilities in transformative design? ! ! b. How can design manifest itself embedded in the context of concern? ! ! c. What are the new aesthetics of formless design?! ! ! !
- 7. Knowledge through reflection in action Participatory action research… with communities of practice… !
- 8. Related work by others
- 9. Design Pilots (ongoing) • Sliperiet: Social collaborative open organisation ! • Umea Pantry: Niching sustainable food strategies in Umea ! • Services that Google cannot provide: Community co-creation at Umea Public Library ! • Urban sanitation: product service system for urban slums in Dhaka ! ! !
- 10. Positive deviations: Eco-local food production around Umea • Ecological vegetable farming • Ecological sheep farming • Permaculture farming • Farming for self-sufficiency • Urban farming 1. Umea Pantry: Niching sustainable food strategies in Umea
- 12. The brief = Matters of concern. • POTENTIAL FARMS: Park land that is not used for urban farming but has the potential to be used. • EXISTING URBAN FARMS: Existing urban farms in Alidhem, Carlshem, Ersboda and Broparken. • NEIGHBOURHOOD INVOLVEMENT: The neighbourhood involvement depends on the activities organised around farming and the inhabitants themselves • Alidhem • Ersboda • Study-circle HQ • Carlshem! ! ! • Broparken NEGOTIATING RESOURCES! LAND: Legally procured land or Illegally procured land MANURE: Manure placed by the municipality WATER: Permission taken to access underground municipal pipelines TOOLS: Tools are pitched in voluntarily by members SEEDS/SAPLINGS: Seeds and saplings volunteered by members … negotiating boundaries
- 13. 2. Sliperiet: Social collaborative open organisation STRUCTURING OPEN-NESS Workshop Proposal for Sliperiet Proposal by Marlene Johansson Aditya Pawar E n tre p re n e u ria l zo n e Makerzone M eeting zone
- 14. Workshop: Co-imagining the value of sliperiet Sliperiet Users Internal Environment External Environment Motivation/ mission/ values Organisational culture Core processes & rituals Physical-technological infrastructure StudentsInternal actors Researchers Creative - cultural companies Entrepreneurs/ Start-ups
- 15. Serious play
- 16. Discussion
- 17. Analysis SynthesisParticipatory input Participatory output Breaking up into socio-material raw materials Re-assembling into new socio-material assemblies - Boundary spanning - Infrastructuring/ Scaffolding - Prototyping /futuring - reconfigurations - Making things visible - Tracing & probing - Critical design - Foresight/ projecting - Narratives - Trust & confidence building Designing publics Transformative design Design-time Post-Pre- What can a social design process look like when the design is never done?
- 18. How can we make transparent the black-box of big society?
- 19. What are the limits of social design? Fuzzy front end Later end Latent Design & discovery Mobilisation Main streaming Embedding • Period of under performance or gradual improvement before innovation occurs • Strategy and process for innovation are developed • Piloting innovative ideas, developing new structures and terms • Innovation becomes routine as ideas and working practice are main streamed in one place, service or sector • Value of innovation grows. Systemic innovation may occur, where the locality has the potential to innovate in other sector Source: Young foundation (2007) 90% Design engagements
- 20. How can we scale up human centred design? to take on complexities of designing for communities and networks