Co-Design, Volume II: Practical Ideas for Designing Across Complex Systems

✍ Scribed by Mark Gatenby (author)

• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 183
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is about understanding the nature of design and organization in complex living systems.

Design is everywhere in our lives-but the nature of complex systems means that few people feel empowered or equipped to design better futures. Although the places we live are full of material objects, they only become meaningful as they are used and experienced by people.

The author looks at design as a way of thinking and acting. Design becomes an open-ended conversation with the world around us. The text is also about the shifting social relations of design-moving from an emphasis on individual engineers and designers toward the participatory process of making sense of tools to improve our lives: we call this process co-design.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Co-Design, Volume II: Practical Ideas for Designing Across Complex Systems
Contents
Series Introduction
Introduction
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1: Design Meets Co-design
Complexity
Artifacts and Interfaces
Thinking in Systems and Design
The Unfolding of Design Practice
Time to Co-design
References
PART 1
CHAPTER 2: Ideas
The Idea
Playing with Ideas
Why Do We Have Ideas?
Why Is It Important?
What Does It Mean in Practice?
Making Ideas More Cooperative
Questions for Reflection
References
CHAPTER 3: Design Brief
The Idea
Briefs and Ideas
Essence of a Brief
Measurability
Perspectives on Writing Design Briefs
1. Brief as a Beginning/Opening
2. Brief as Challenge
3. Brief as Asking Questions
4. Brief as Relationship
5. Brief as Simile
What Does It Mean in Practice?
Management by Objectives
Asking a Question Is Harder than Finding the Answer
Questions for Reflection
References
CHAPTER 4: Cooperation
The Idea
The Social Individual
Tribal Identity
Hard Cooperation
Why Is Cooperation Important?
Repeat Reciprocity
What Does It Mean in Practice?
Decentering the Individual
Working with Hard Cooperation
Rebuilding Cooperative Capital
Questions for Reflection
References
PART 2
CHAPTER 5: The Workshop
The Idea
The Workshop as Outside the Timetable
Why Is It Important?
Core Features of a Workshop
Originality
The Master’s Influence
What Does It Mean in Practice?
Workshops and Bureaucracy
Designing a Workshop Space
Questions for Reflection
References
CHAPTER 6: Prototyping
The Idea
Prototypes and Systems
Prototyping Services
Categories of Prototyping
Why Is Prototyping Important?
Cooperative Prototyping
What Does Prototyping Mean in Practice?
Extended Example: Higher Education Design
Questions for Reflection
References
CHAPTER 7: Design Trace
The Idea
The Design Trace as Response to Incompleteness
Why Is It Important?
Design Trace of Wikipedia
What Does It Mean in Practice?
Questions for Reflection
Questions for Reflection
References
PART 3
CHAPTER 8: Empathy
The Idea
Why Is It Important?
Roles and Relationships
Usability
What Does It Mean in Practice?
Designing with Empathy
Getting Empathy Right
Co-designing Empathy
Questions for Reflection
References
CHAPTER 9: Participation
The Idea
Iron Law of Oligarchy
Community Participation
Participation and Technology
Professions and Participation
Why Is Participation Important?
What Does Participatory Design Mean in Practice?
Future of Professional–Client Relationship
Questions for Reflection
References
Epilogue: Obliquity
About the Author
Index
Ad page
Back Cover