Design for Social Responsibility
About the Book Series
Social responsibility, in various disguises, has been a recurring theme in design for many years. Since the 1960s several more or less commercial approaches have evolved. In the 1970s designers were encouraged to abandon 'design for profit' in favour of a more compassionate approach inspired by Papanek. In the 1980s and 1990s profit and ethical issues were no longer considered mutually exclusive and more market-oriented concepts emerged, such as the 'green consumer' and ethical investment. The purchase of socially responsible, 'ethical' products and services has been stimulated by the dissemination of research into sustainability issues in consumer publications. Accessibility and inclusivity have also attracted a great deal of design interest and recently designers have turned to solving social and crime-related problems. Organisations supporting and funding such projects have recently included the NHS (research into design for patient safety); the Home Office has (design against crime); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (design decision-making for urban sustainability). Businesses are encouraged (and increasingly forced by legislation) to set their own socially responsible agendas that depend on design to be realised. Design decisions all have environmental, social and ethical impacts, so there is a pressing need to provide guidelines for designers and design students within an overarching framework that takes a holistic approach to socially responsible design. This edited series of guides is aimed at students of design, product development, architecture and marketing, and design and management professionals working in the sectors covered by each title. Each volume includes: ¢ The background and history of the topic, its significance in social and commercial contexts and trends in the field. ¢ Exemplar design case studies. ¢ Guidelines for the designer and advice on tools, techniques and resources available.
Systemic Service Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Mari Suoheimo, Peter Jones, Sheng-Hung Lee, Birger Sevaldson
February 17, 2025
Systemic Service Design provides a comprehensive overview of how systems theories can be integrated into service design to address complex social-economic-technological challenges. Across 14 chapters split into two sections, the book connects theoretical backgrounds and practical worldwide case ...
Design for Education: Spaces and Tools for Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Rute Costa, Rachel Cooper
July 31, 2024
This book charts the impact of design on education, specifically focusing on how design can shape the spaces and tools for learning. This edited collection brings together the work of designers, architects, engineers, professionals, educators, and researchers, and presents a series of case studies ...
Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing: Co-Design, Interventions and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristina Niedderer, Geke Ludden, Tom Dening, Vjera Holthoff-Detto
July 22, 2024
This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to people’s wellbeing and mental health in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity. This book explores and promotes holistic, salutogenic and preventive strategies that ...
Design for Global Challenges and Goals
1st Edition
Edited
By Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel Cooper, Jak Spencer
January 09, 2023
Design for Global Challenges and Goals charts the developments, opportunities and challenges for design research in addressing global challenges facing developing contexts focusing on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The book explores the role that design and social responsibility play in ...
Design for Transformative Learning: A Practical Approach to Memory-Making and Perspective-Shifting
1st Edition
By Lisa Grocott
April 07, 2022
The creative strategies in Design for Transformative Learning offer a playful and practical approach to learning from and adapting to a rapidly changing world. Seeing continuous learning as more than the periodic acquisition of new skills this book presents a design-led approach to revising the ...
Design for People Living with Dementia: Interactions and Innovations
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Tsekleves, John Keady
May 17, 2021
There were an estimated 50 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2017 and this number will almost double every 20 years, reaching 82 million in 2030. Design has significant potential to contribute to managing this global concern. This book is the first to synthesise the ...
Design Against Crime: A Human-Centred Approach to Designing for Safety and Security
1st Edition
By Caroline L. Davey, Andrew B. Wootton
September 30, 2020
Design Against Crime will aid the design profession to meet the challenges presented by the competing needs and complex systems around crime and security. It proposes that designers should use their creative talents to develop innovative solutions to security problems that contribute to the ...
Design for Sport
1st Edition
By Anxo Cereijo Roibás, Emmanuel Stamatakis
November 15, 2016
Design for Sport shows how socially responsible design can contribute to make sport practice widespread in the general population including disadvantaged and hard-to-reach groups, and those that have been traditionally excluded such as the elderly, disabled people, those living in deprived areas ...
Design for Micro-Utopias: Making the Unthinkable Possible
1st Edition
By John Wood
September 12, 2016
Everyone is already painfully aware of our predicament - ecological extinctions, dwindling fossil fuel reserves and economic chaos. The solutions are less obvious, despite the many opportunities that surround us. We have never had more access to resources, knowledge and technology but this is not ...
Design for Transport: A User-Centred Approach to Vehicle Design and Travel
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Tovey
December 24, 2012
The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user. People have a collection of wants and needs and a significant proportion of them are to do with their requirements for mobility. The authors show how ...
Design for Services
1st Edition
By Anna Meroni, Daniela Sangiorgi
August 28, 2011
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...
Design for Inclusivity: A Practical Guide to Accessible, Innovative and User-Centred Design
1st Edition
By Roger Coleman, John Clarkson, Julia Cassim
December 21, 2007
Inclusive design not only ensures that products, services, interfaces and environments are easier to use for those with special needs or limitations, but in doing so also makes them better for everyone. Design for Inclusivity, written by a team that has pioneered inclusive design practice ...