什麼是「社會設計」？眾說紛紜。讓我們不妨從Koskinen和Hush的文章開始。這篇文章把社會設計分成三種類型，可以給我們一個大概的面貌。這三種類型的社會設計都有其在面對處理的問題，我們之後上課會作更深入的討論，而這篇文章的目的不在指出「唯一的」、「真正的」社會設計，而在於分析設計實踐中，那些歧義的、模糊不清的「社會」所從而來（P.69）。那麼，為什麼「社會」這概念在社會設計實踐中會如此模糊不清呢？這模糊是刻意的，還是無可避免的？其效應為何？

1. 社 會 設 計
W H Y A N D H O W ?

4. U T O P I A N S O C I A L D E S I G N
• using social work interventions as a model for social design
that would turn design from a market-oriented discipline to
something that serves “people with low incomes or special
needs due to age, health, or disability”.
• good design should not be the prerogative of the rich North
only.
• designers focus on improving situations they face without
paying attention to the larger structures that create those
situations in which they normally act, often to their
disadvantage.

6. M O L E C U L A R S O C I A L D E S I G N
• First, it was driven by the then emerging idea of
“collaborative design” and its aim of improving the
lives of a specific group of people.
• Second, this demonstrates that such molecular
projects can lead to massive changes given the right
conditions.
• The growth of design education, but few designers
find jobs in traditional design.

8. S O C I O L O G I C A L S O C I A L D E S I G N
• It builds on sociological theory.
• Central to this pursuit is a focus on the relationship between
people and things, the traditional concerns of both
sociologists and designers, but this time through the lens of
social interaction or the “actor-network theory” of Bruno
Latour.
• The analytical power of social theory, specifically sociology,
underpins the critical position taken up by “sociological”
designers and thereby informs design(s) that respond to
these so often invisible and inaccessible forces.

10. T O WA R D S D E S I G N S O C I O L O G Y
• sociology of design: devoting attention to the ideas, design
artefacts and other material objects designers use in their
working practices, as well as the spaces and places in which
they work.
• sociological research through design: that is, by using
design methods and concepts as research devices to
generate insights into other topics.
• sociology with design: collaborating with design
researchers, ideally offering both disciplines new research
methods and perspectives that can enrich them both.

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12. Sociologists have not been trained to
think in “designerly” ways.

15. 每樣事物必須以某種方式「接合起來」︐
本來零散的要素要能凝聚在一起︐
否則新東西就不會問世。

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