Social Innovation in Brazil Through Design Strategy
Submitted by Eunji Cho on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 2:15pmTags
BrazilThemes
RegionsThe world is filled with pressing social challenges that cry out for solution. On one side are issues related to natural resources, such as global climate change and adequate food supplies. On the other are problems with service systems, exemplified by issues with the cost and quality of healthcare as well as diccifulties with transportation and improvements in education.
CoDesign Volume 7, Issue 3-4, 2011: Special Issue 'Socially Responsive Design'
Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:48pmTags
CoDesignThemes
Public servicesThe aim of this special issue of CoDesign is to interrogate design that takes as its primary driver social issues, its main consideration social impact and its main objective social change (Gamman and Thorpe 2006). The concept of social responsibility, the notion that an individual, a group of individuals or an organisation (or organisations) has responsibility to society, whilst topical, has been around as long as humanity.
Prototyping and Infrastructuring in design of social innovation
Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:39pmTags
MEDEAThemes
Public servicesDuring the past five years design has been recognised as a powerful innovation driver. Design methods and tools have also been applied in new fields. One of them is social innovation, which is aimed at developing new ideas and solutions in response to social needs. While different initiatives have demonstrated how design can be a powerful approach in social innovation, especially when it comes to systemic thinking, prototyping and visualising, some concerns have been raised regarding the limitations of applying design in this field.
Transformation Design
Submitted by Eunji Cho on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:35pmTags
REDThemes
Public servicesThe paper begins to set out the characteristics of the emergent discipline of Transformation Design. It identifies a nascent but growing community of practice. It highlights an under-supply of designers equipped to work in this way. And it explores the market for, and the challenges facing, designers who are starting to work in this new discipline.
This paper forms the basis of ongoing work at RED. A small number of examples are highlighted in this text. There must be many more of which the authors are unaware, and many other groups who are beginning to work in this way.
The Collaborative State
Submitted by Eunji Cho on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:27pmTags
DEMOSThemes
Public servicesIf we want to sustain improvements into the next decade, then we need a new generation of reform that builds on experiments with collaboration between both different parts of the public sector, and between institutions and the people they serve. Joined-up government, place-based policy making and co-production with citizens offer exciting new possibilities for creating flexible, dynamic and democratic public service organisations.
Danger and opportunity: Crisis and the social economy
Submitted by Eunji Cho on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:21pmAuthors
Robin MurrayThemes
Public servicesSocial Innovator series: Ways to design, develop and grow social innovation.
Robin Murray argues that the early years of the 21st century are witnessing the emergence of a new kind of social economy.
This pamphlet argues that the early years of the 21st century are witnessing the emergence of a new kind of economy that has profound implications for the future of public services as well as for the daily life of citizens.
HEALTH: Co-creating Services
Submitted by Eunji Cho on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:15pmThis paper looks at the new challenges facing public services, taking health as a case study. Chronic disease presents a new and growing health challenge.This paper argues that reform to the health services currently on offer cannot address either the management of chronic diseases or the broader lifestyle issues that might promote better health. The authors argue for a new approach which they call co-creation since a set of new relationships between users, workers and professionals lies at its heart. Many of the seeds of this new approach can be found within the current system.
The challenge of Co-Production
Submitted by admin on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 2:19pmTags
NESTAThemes
Public servicesCo-production as a new way of thinking about public services has the potential to deliver a major shift in the way we provide health, education, policing and other services, in ways that make them much more effective, more efficient, and so more sustainable.
Mobilized Collaborative Services in Ubiquitous Network
Submitted by admin on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 2:06pmThemes
InfrastructuresThe paper inquires how collaborative services evolve in ubiquitous
network. By comparison study in systems of solutions and interactions of
services, it defines a conceptual framework of spaces of auras in mobilized
collaborative services, proposing four kinds of network and interaction
structures: Peer-to-Peer (P2P), Role-to-Role (R2R), Peer-to-Common (P2C)
and Role-to-Centre (R2C). The conclusion of discussion is that in MCS, the
form of space of auras decides mainly the way of interaction, the structure of
system and degree of relational quality.
Design schools as agents of (sustainable) change
Submitted by Eunji Cho on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 1:39pmAuthors
Ezio Manziniby Ezio Manzini
