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Author : Anna Meroni
Publisher : edizioni polidesign
ISBN 13 : 9788887981896
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Creative Communities. People Inventing Sustainable Ways of Living written by Anna Meroni and published by edizioni polidesign. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Shamiyeh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3034611390
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Creating Desired Futures written by Michael Shamiyeh and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s society is making great leaps in its effort to obtain ever more and ever more specific know-how in various specialties, with the consequence that the structures of today’s companies are become increasingly complex. This in turn leads to problems at the points of interface, which calls for a comprehensive approach to solutions.Creating Desired Futures defines design a creative, analytical method to develop and explore alternative solutions to complex problems, and it shows that design is particularly well suited to the business world’s current need for innovative strategies. In twenty-four essays by designers, architects, and representatives of large companies such as Nike and Shell, the book shows how such a design-based approach can help define, assess, and solve problems for companies. It presents not only specific strategies from actual practice but also innovative approaches from the world of corporate consulting. Essays by researchers and teachers discuss theoretical aspects of the subject "Design Thinking." Michael Shamiyeh is a practicing architect with his own firm (Shamiyeh Associates) and also founder and direction of the DOM (Design—Organisation—Media) Research Laboratory at the Kunstuniversität Linz. He works on the relevance of creative, analytical approaches in architectural thinking to solve complex problems in the area of Strategic Business Thinking and Innovation. Shamiyeh has received numerous awards, including the Innovation Prize (2008) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research and well as the Future Award (ZuP, 2003) and the Award for Entrepreneurship (2000), both awarded by the Austrian government.
Author : Salvatore Di Dio
Publisher : Altralinea Edizioni
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Communities’ Sustainable Experiences written by Salvatore Di Dio and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “THE TRUE DIMENSION OF CITIES IS NOT SPACE, BUT TIME” (Konstantinos Doxiadis) This shift from the spatial dimension to that of time, places the focus on the individual’s scale of perception. How individuals spend their time shapes and infuses our environments with meaning, influencing social dynamics and cultural values. The Next Generation EU project exemplifies this shift by integrating lifestyle and environmental sustainability into urban planning. The goal is to facilitate a just transition to a circular economy, redefining not only the physical layout of cities but also the lived experience of its citizens within these evolving spaces. The evolution from the “Citizens’ Sustainable eXperience” to the “Communities’ Sustainable eXperience” , in the interdisciplinary research funded by the European Union, underscores a significant progression from individual to collective experience. UX, rooted in human-centered design, focuses on optimizing products and environments for personal use and satisfaction, CX expands these principles into the realm of more-than-human-centered design, where the focus extends beyond individual users to include wider community interactions and ecosystems. Therefore, the shift from UX to CX in urban planning and design is profoundly ethical. It calls for a paradigm that prioritizes collective well-being and sustainable development, inclusivity and cooperation.
Author : Shane Fudge
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781003750
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Global Challenge of Encouraging Sustainable Living written by Shane Fudge and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book will prove a thought-provoking read for academics, researchers and students in the fields of environmental studies _ particularly sustainability _ and public policy. Practitioners and policymakers concerned with achieving sustaina
Author : Anna Meroni
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317152387
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Design for Services written by Anna Meroni and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Design for Services, Anna Meroni and Daniela Sangiorgi articulate what Design is doing and can do for services, and how this connects to existing fields of knowledge and practice. Designers previously saw their task as the conceptualisation, development and production of tangible objects. In the twenty-first century, a designer rarely 'designs something' but rather 'designs for something': in the case of this publication, for change, better experiences and better services. The authors reflect on this recent transformation in the practice, role and skills of designers, by organising their book into three main sections. The first section links Design for Services to existing models and studies on services and service innovation. Section two presents multiple service design projects to illustrate and clarify the issues, practices and theories that characterise the discipline today; using these case studies the authors propose a conceptual framework that maps and describes the role of designers in the service economy. The final section projects the discipline into the emerging paradigms of a new economy to initiate a reflection on its future development.
Author : Ralf Michel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3764384727
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Design Research Now written by Ralf Michel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. Design Research Now – Essays and Selected Projects charts the field of design research with introductory essays and selected research projects. The authors of the essays, all leading international design scholars, stake out positions on the most important issues of design research. They locate the significance of design research at the interface with technological development, describe what makes it a necessary ingredient of the continued development of the design disciplines, and assign it a seminal role in the relevant developments of society. The essays are supplemented by the presentation of recently completed research projects from universities in the Netherlands, the UK and Italy.
Author : Anna Meroni
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031060350
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Service Design for Urban Commons written by Anna Meroni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the application of service design to urban commons. It originates from a project developed by the research group of POLIMI DESIS Lab of Politecnico di Milano, aimed at imagining the future of the Reggio Emilia Ducal Palace and its park - the Reggia di Rivalta. The peculiarity of the project lays in the idea that the design of a (public) space should be informed by the design of its services, because the development of specific activities actually builds a fundamental part of the identity of a place, conceiving both the tangible and intangible dimensions as part of a single creative process. The combination of a participatory process and the integration of spatial and service design led to infrastructuring a multi-stakeholder participatory action research of envisioning the future of a public good. This effort has been thus framed into a working methodology, specific tools and progressive outputs, which are defined as Service Master Planning (the process), and Service Master Plan (the product), allowing service design professionals to expand their knowledge and develop skills for a new field of application connected to urban planning.
Author : Fabrizio Ceschin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429851960
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Design for Sustainability (Open Access) written by Fabrizio Ceschin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It puts forward an innovation framework that is capable of coherently integrating multiple design for sustainability (DfS) approaches developed so far. It is now widely understood that design can and must play a crucial role in the societal transformations towards sustainability. Design can in fact act as a catalyst to trigger and support innovation, and can help to shape the world at different levels: from materials to products, product–service systems, social organisations and socio-technical systems. This book offers a unique perspective on how DfS has evolved in the past decades across these innovation levels, and provides insights on its promising and necessary future development directions. For design scholars, this book will trigger and feed the academic debate on the evolution of DfS and its next research frontiers. For design educators, the book can be used as a supporting tool to design courses and programmes on DfS. For bachelor’s and master’s level design, engineering and management students, the book can be a general resource to provide an understanding of the historical evolution of DfS. For design practitioners and businesses, the book offers a rich set of practical examples, design methods and tools to apply the various DfS approaches in practice, and an innovation framework which can be used as a tool to support change in organisations that aim to integrate DfS in their strategy and processes.
Author : Stuart Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315312522
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Design for Life written by Stuart Walker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Walker’s design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and ferocious. Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice, Design for Life penetrates to the heart of modern culture and the malaise that underlies today’s moral and environmental crises. The author argues that this malaise is deep-seated and fundamental to the modern outlook. He shows how our preoccupation with technological progress, growth and the future has produced a constricted view of life – one that is both destructive and self-reinforcing. Based on over twenty-five years of scholarship and creative practice, he demonstrates the vital importance of solitude, contemplation, inner growth and the present moment in developing a different course – one that looks squarely at our current, precarious situation while offering a positive, hopeful way forward – a way that is compassionate, context-based, human scale, ethically motivated and critically creative. Design for Life is an intensely original contribution that will be essential reading for design practitioners and students. Written in a clear, accessible style, it will also appeal to a broader readership, especially anyone who is concerned with contemporary society’s rising inequalities and environmental failings and is looking for a more constructive, balanced and thoughtful direction.
Author : Mitsutaka Matsumoto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400730101
Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Design for Innovative Value Towards a Sustainable Society written by Mitsutaka Matsumoto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first EcoDesign International Symposium held in 1999, this symposium has led the research and practices of environmentally conscious design of products, services, manufacturing systems, supply chain, consumption, as well as economics and society. EcoDesign 2011 - the 7th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing - was successfully held in the Japanese old capital city of Kyoto, on November 30th – December 2nd, 2011. The subtitle of EcoDesign 2011 is to “design for value innovation towards sustainable society.” During this event, presenters discussed the way to achieve both drastic environmental consciousness and value innovation in order to realise a sustainable society.
Author : Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000291030
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Social Innovation of New Ventures written by Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insights into how new ventures in emerging economies and developing countries generate social innovation. It showcases new forms of business and how they are different from traditional business models. With increasing drive for innovation in emerging markets and lack of knowledge of how these markets work, this book enriches existing literature by looking at how such businesses in developing economies break new ground in a daunting, resource constrained environment. The book examines successful individual entrepreneurs, social relationships, product innovation, processes, systems and markets through cases. It navigates across key theoretical elements including individual initiative-taking, agency, and opportunity contexts. This book will be a useful reference to understanding the dynamics of new ventures in emerging markets and how they fuel social innovation and sustainable development.
Author : Nuno Martins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030897354
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Advances in Design and Digital Communication II written by Nuno Martins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and branding, design education, society and communication in design practice, and related ones. Gathering the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Design and Communication, Digicom 2021, held on November 4–6, 2021, in Barcelos, Portugal, and continuing the tradition of the previous book, it describes new design strategies and solutions to foster digital communication within and between the society, institutions and brands. By highlighting innovative ideas and reporting on multidisciplinary projects, it offers a source of inspiration for designers of all kinds, including graphic and web designers, UI, UX and social media designers, and to researchers, advertisers, artists, and brand and corporate communication managers alike.
Author : Ezio Manzini
Publisher : EGEA spa
ISBN 13 : 8823883814
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Livable Proximity written by Ezio Manzini and published by EGEA spa. This book was released on 2022-02-10T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Livable Proximity is a passionate and compelling call for a remaking of the city under a novel paradigm of relationality and care by one of the most accomplished design thinkers of our time.” – ARTURO ESCOBAR This book is a contribution to the social conversation on the city and its future. It focuses on an idea that has been in circulation for some time and that, in recent years, has received greater attention: that of a city in which everything that is needed for daily life is just a few minutes away by foot from where people live. In addition, it speaks of a city in which this functional proximity corresponds to a relational proximity, thanks to which people have more opportunities to encounter each other, support each other, care for each other and the environment, and collaborate to reach goals together. Ultimately, it is a city built starting from the life of the citizens and an idea of livable proximity in which they can find what they need to live, and to do so together with others. The underlying theme that this book poses is thus the following: can we construct the contemporary city starting from a new idea of proximity? The response given is yes, it can be done. The social innovations of the last 20 years in fact indicate where to start. Many cities in the world, including Paris, Barcelona, and Milan have made a commitment and are taking steps in this direction, offering concrete examples of what this city of proximity could be: a city in which social innovation, care, common goods, communities of place, and enabling digital platforms become the keywords of a new and widespread social capacity to design.
Author : Siu, Kin Wai Michael
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522541845
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability written by Siu, Kin Wai Michael and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designers provide creative solutions for user problems and identify the needs of users in a given environment. However, it is often difficult to understand the social design of a product or service. Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability is a critical scholarly resource that provides groundbreaking research on social contributions to design. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as rural sustainability, ecological farmhouse designs, and community public spaces, this book is geared towards architects, designers, program planners, entrepreneurs, and engineers seeking information about design for resolving social issues.
Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
ISBN 13 : 8856875977
Total Pages : 2200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Planning Support Tools: Policy Analysis, Implementation and Evaluation. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Informatics and Urban and Regional Planning INPUT2012 written by AA. VV. and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2012-06-13T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1862.161
Author : Pieter E. Vermaas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319733028
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Advancements in the Philosophy of Design written by Pieter E. Vermaas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents 25 essays on the philosophy of design. With contributions originating from philosophy and design research, and from product design to architecture, it gives a rich spectrum of state of the art research and brings together studies on philosophical topics in which design plays a key role and design research to which philosophy contributes. Coverage zooms in on specific and more well-known design disciplines but also includes less-studied disciplines, such as graphic design, interior architecture and exhibition design. In addition, contributors take up traditional philosophical issues, such as epistemology, politics, phenomenology and philosophy of science. Some essays cover philosophical issues that emerge in design, for instance what design can do in addressing societal problems, while other essays analyze main-stream philosophical issues in which design is part of the argument, as for instance abduction and aesthetics. Readers will discover new research with insightful analyses of design research, design thinking and the specificity of design. Overall, this comprehensive overview of an emerging topic in philosophy will be of great interest to researchers and students.
Author : Julia Backhaus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351782355
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption written by Julia Backhaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases strategic policies for and processes of societal transformation, which are required to address the challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the transformation of society, the book provides: in-depth discussions at the nexus of sustainable consumption, social innovation and social transformation, highlighting their significance to sustainability-related policy and practice; detailed case studies of social innovation in energy, food, housing and policy which illustrate emerging practice and promising policy, business and civil society interventions; and critical reflections and commentaries on the contribution of social innovation to societal transformation. Bringing together aspiring scholars and leading thinkers on this topic, this book leads to compelling new insights for an international audience into the potential of social innovation for sustainable consumption and the transformation of society. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption, sustainable development, (social) innovation studies and environmental sociology.
