The Influence Of Design Activism And Socially Responsible Design Approaches On Design Education

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozgur Cetin
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Design Activism ◽  
Socially Responsible Design

Educating a Socially Responsible Designer

2019 ◽  
pp. 237-264
Author(s):  
Meltem Ozten Anay
Keyword(s):  
Design Problem ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Complex Dimensions ◽  
Design Students ◽  
User Learning

Between user and environment, the main responsibility of a designer is to conceive user as part of design understanding. Design education is one of the important stages to provide required bottom-up change in prevalent design perspectives by equipping student with necessary skills and tools towards a socially responsible designer. Addressing this issue, the chapter aims to provide a framework to contribute education of socially responsible designer. Focusing on Donald Schön's notion of “on-the-spot inquiry,” a framework for the organization of user learning in design studio is discussed to provide design students a way to understand real user with its complex dimensions and lead them to define their design problem with this user-informed perspective. The critical tools of this approach are underlined as real user-student interaction, on-the-spot user inquiry, and user case in design studio. This framework is exemplified with a user case involving a design studio experience.

scholarly journals SOCIALLY-RESPONSIBLE DESIGN IN A MONOTOWN: THE CASE OF YURGA, KEMEROVO REGION

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Н. Колодий ◽  
N. Kolodii ◽  
Владимир Трифонов ◽  
Vladimir Trifonov
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
City Culture ◽  
Socially Responsible Design

<p>The territories of many single-industry towns and smaller settlements with a oncedeveloped industry at the present stage of development do not satisfy the new needs of people. Without a carefully developed concept of development of these territories, the latter become zones of alienation. Weak attention to these objects leads to their degradation, the formation on their territory of storage areas, small and not always legal production, the concentration of questionable business. To date, there are three competing programs that claim to implement and implement in urban development practices: Smart City, Culture-led (leadership through intensive cultural development), Livable City (comfortable city). All of them can improve the quality of life of the main socio-demographic groups or simply contribute to the economic prosperity of cities. The content of the research area: the identification, analysis and resolution of the formation and development problems of the theory and practice of «smart cities» management as social and economic systems with the aim of revealing the stable links and regularities that determine the nature and content of these problems, the logic and mechanisms for their resolution. The project of socially responsible design of the «smart city» in the case of the monotown of Yurga, Kemerovo region, will contribute to the formation of practices of public discussion and the solution of issues related to the formation of a stable comfortable and safe urban environment.</p>

scholarly journals Social innovation : understanding selected Durban-based interior designers' perceptions of socially responsible interior design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Xolisa Ndovela ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Social Compact ◽  
Interior Designers ◽  
Socially Responsible Design

In a world with pressing social issues that require the collaboration of multiple stakeholders to solve them, this research sought to find out through the views of interior design practitioners how social innovation might be integrated into interior design for socially responsible design. The research sought to find out from the perceptions of the participants whether social innovation practices could be integrated into interior design as an ethos for professional practice, rather than fragmented, erratic projects. The research postulates that interior design practices are similar if not complementary to those of social innovation. Both interior design and social innovation focus on the human dimension and understanding of human behaviour to construct realities that people occupy and offer an enhanced human experience. The aim was to establish whether interior design practitioners saw social innovation as a tool for more socially responsible design and whether they have engaged in social innovation and socially responsible design in their practice. The research followed an exploratory qualitative research approach positioned in the interpretive paradigm. The research used semistructured participant interviews and thematic analysis to explore in-depth insights into the perspectives and experiences of 13 Durban-based interior designers and their perceptions of social innovation integration for socially responsible design. Through a literature review, the researcher studied social innovation, design for social innovation, socially responsible design, interior design's social compact and interior design's value proposition. The conceptual framework put forward a plausible sequence of activities that can be carried out for interior design to interact with social innovation for socially responsible design. Doing so could contribute to the interior design social compact. The thematic analysis was employed to structure the research and explore the current level of understanding and engagement of interior designers in social innovation for socially responsible design. What emerged were challenges and opportunities for integrating social innovation for socially responsible design as an interior design ethos. Guided by the conceptual framework in the research, five themes emerged in the data analysis guided by the conceptual framework: Social Problem Identification, Interior Design Process, Social Innovation Process, Socially Responsible Design Process and Social Value. The findings revealed that the selected interior designers were largely unaware of social innovation and last interacted in a socially responsible design during a once-off university project. Although the participants' comprehension was at times muddled, the aggregate of their perceptions demonstrated a general grasp of what social innovation and socially responsible design are. It was interesting to note how difficult it was for interior designers to conceptualize the terms "social," "social innovation," and "socially responsible design." The majority of participants distinguished between social innovation and socially responsible design as differing concepts. Even with a basic knowledge of social innovation, most participants expressed confidence in implementing and leading teams based on socially responsible and socially innovative programs. The participants believed that their potential could only be constrained by finances, personal security, a lack of education and expertise in the cultural context of the social innovation project. The designers believed that social innovation for socially responsible design should be required in interior design and monetization, professional body, education and the other components of socially responsible design are crucial in doing so. Of the advantages of integrating social innovation for socially responsible interior design communicated by the participants, the most significant was the change of collective expectations of interior design by the general public and other business professionals. The participants shared that social innovation would favour the discipline by demonstrating to the public and other practitioners that it was about more than shallow design aesthetics. Interior design is, however, about substance and complicated problem-solving. The participants shared their challenges and methods, which could help integrate social innovation into interior design for socially responsible design.

scholarly journals Uncertainties in socially responsible design: a consequentialist approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Jacob Busch ◽  
Anders Haug ◽  
Anders Haug ◽  
Jacob Busch
Keyword(s):  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Socially Responsible Design

Forming Socially Responsible Design for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Kadyirov ◽  
Juliana Emanova ◽  
Mikhail Yao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Socially Responsible Design
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