Designing for the Common Good: A Handbook for Innovators, Designers, and Other People - Brossura

Dorst, Kees; Kaldor, Lucy; Klippan, Lucy; Watson, Rodger

 
9789063694081: Designing for the Common Good: A Handbook for Innovators, Designers, and Other People

Sinossi

Our societies are becoming more complex, dynamic, and networked every day. Public organizations and companies alike are learning the hard way that the societal challenges before us cannot be resolved as they were in the past. We need new approaches to these problems.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Kees Dorst trained as an industrial design engineer at Delft University of Technology. He has worked as a product designer for various design firms and, as a researcher, he has studied the ways in which designers work. He is Professor of Design Innovation at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of Frame Innovation and Understanding Design: 175 Reflections on Being a Designer and the coauthor of Design Expertise

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This handbook is for public sector innovators, designers and anybody who is ready to take on the challenge of designing the future of our society.

The unique approach that is presented here empowers you to create solutions to problems that are stuck, sticky or have always been considered too hard . You will see that these problems can be tackled using thoughtful and sophisticated practices that have been developed by expert designers, transforming problems into possibilities, and organisations into networks of committed stakeholders.

This is demonstrated in 21 real-life projects that span many sectors of society. The key lessons from these projects are supported by 19 hands-on methods that help you design for the common good.

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This handbook is for public sector innovators, designers and anybody who is ready to take on the challenge of designing the future of our society.

The unique approach that is presented here empowers you to create solutions to problems that are stuck, sticky or have always been considered ‘too hard’. You will see that these problems can be tackled using thoughtful and sophisticated practices that have been developed by expert designers, transforming problems into possibilities, and organisations into networks of committed stakeholders.

This is demonstrated in 21 real-life projects that span many sectors of society. The key lessons from these projects are supported by 19 hands-on methods that help you design for the common good.

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