Integrative Design: Essays and Projects on Design Research

✍ Scribed by Ralf Michel (editor)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Design and societal integration

Design reflects social developments in those issues which are also embraced by design researchers. A key concept for how designers position themselves in the future, according to the editor’s thesis, may well be "integrative design". This term denotes design’s potential for the integrative development of a society, a potential imperatively linked with economic and political positions.

Integrative Design collects basic essays on aspects of Integrative Design, including design after ownership, inclusion, design as an interface with society, the integration of design and technology, and the political agenda of design. The associated website documents current and recently completed research projects that expand on these aspects.

• The contribution of design to societal integration
• Inspiring essays and research projects

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
‘Wicked Problems’: A Few Remarks on Design as Research
An Unfolding Political Agenda
Research For Designing After Ownership
Design And Open Innovation For Sustainability: Let’S Get Radical
Crossing The Boundaries Of Participation, Activism, Paradigm Change, And Incubation: On The Edge Of Design For Social Innovation And Sustainability
Design And Inclusion: An Approach To Aspects Of Integrative Design
Designing Thin Interfaces Between Artificiality And Society
‘Dark Phases’ And ‘Draft Things’: On The Integration Of Technology And Design As A Cultural Process
Authors