Transformation design : perspectives on a new design attitude / Wolfgang Jonas, Sarah Zerwas, Kristof von Anshelm.

Transformation design is looking for new ways to change our behavior and society through new forms of innovation, and it has already leaded to a fruitful discourse. The book attempts to form an initial position in terms of this ambitious and ethical design perspective. It also seeks to inspire the i...

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Main Authors: Jonas, Wolfgang (Author), Zerwas, Sarah (Author), Anshelm, Kristof von (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser, 2015.
Series:Board of International Research in Design.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword BIRD
  • Introduction
  • Transformation Design Starts with People Dreaming: Designers and Theatre Makers Design Utopias for Major Transformation. An Essay
  • Transformation Design: A Piecemeal Situational Change
  • Deep Involvement: On Transformation Processes Related to the RhyCycling Project
  • Transformation Design: Creating Security and Well-Being
  • Owls to Athens, or: The Discrete Charm of Transformation Design. An Essay
  • Could Design Help to Promote and Build Empathic Processes in Prison? Understanding the Role of Empathy and Design in Catalysing Social Change and Transformation
  • Approaching Our Dog: Transformation Design
  • An Attempt
  • Social Transformation Design as a Form of Research Through Design (RTD): Some Historical, Theoretical, and Methodological Remarks
  • Design and Social Change: The Changing Environment of a Discipline in Flux
  • Human Systems Design: A New Direction for Practice
  • Designing for Sustainable Development: Industrial Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Social Innovation
  • Mobility Peak: Scenes from a Deceleration
  • Transformation Design: A Social-Ecological Perspective
  • Designing 'Matters of Concern' (Latour): A Future Design Challenge?
  • Rapid Prototyping Politics: Design and the De-Material Turn
  • Collective Metamorphosis: A Combinatorial Approach to Transformation Design
  • Transformation Design as 'Hero's Journey'
  • Authors
  • Backmatter.