Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262028603 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Mugendi K. In this world, collaboration counts for more than consumption, and relationships are the true source of value. (Joel Towers, Executive Dean, Parsons School of Design, The New School)There is a deep humanism in the work of Ezio Manzini, and it is evident in the clarity and insights of his latest book. Design, When Everybody Designs by Ezio Manzini is a timely, provocative, and essential read for all those that are engaged in or are affected by design and design processes -- in other words, all of us. He wants us to reimagine design's relationship to addressing social
Ezio Manzini, a leading thinker in design for sustainability, founded DESIS: an international network on design for social innovation and sustainability ( desis-network). . He has been Professor at the Politecnico di Milano and is currently guest Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, and University of the Arts London
Manzini distinguishes between diffuse design (performed by everybody) and expert design (performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold -- an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of collaboration. These cases illustrate how expert designers can support these collaborations -- making their existence more probable, their practice easier, their diff
Five Stars Luisina Excellent!. Unique Great book! An fundamental book to understand design aplication beyond products.. A Social Innovation for Design for Social Innovation Chow First thing first: If there were a “Book of the Year” award in design, I would vote for this one.‘Design. When Everybody Designs’ is an insightful contemporary account on designing social-technical conditions for initiating and supporting collaborative social changes. However, the work is more a (design) proposal and a call for action than an academic examination on the topic. A more precise sub-title might have been: An Introduction t