Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowin... more Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowing and complex transdisciplinary collaborations. This can be provocative, messy, awkward - even frigh ...
This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simu... more This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simultaneously manifest and probe care of self, care of others, care of community, care of matters of ca ...
What is the experience of a carbon neutral society? How does it feel to wear a cradle-to-cradle g... more What is the experience of a carbon neutral society? How does it feel to wear a cradle-to-cradle garment? This paper explores how the experiential dimension can enrich the development and communication of sustainability. The authors argue that such an approach can reach where quantitative and abstract language cannot, and foster a deeper relationship with ethical and environmental concerns, thus inviting designers and their colleagues into new and richer idea territories as regards sustainable futures. A series of methods and tools are proposed, designed to promote multi-sensory, and emotive engagement with the sustainability imperative and tested in recent empirical research taking the form of creative workshops. The rationale behind, the operation and benefits of the approaches are introduced through three cases, representing the fashion and automotive industries and a current AHRC funded research project ‘Bench-marking Synergy Levels within Metadesign’, (Goldsmiths, University of ...
Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowin... more Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowing and complex transdisciplinary collaborations. This can be provocative, messy, awkward - even frigh ...
This article proposes how metadesign, a systemic, interdisciplinary and emergent design approach,... more This article proposes how metadesign, a systemic, interdisciplinary and emergent design approach, can provide a dynamic framework for carrying out ‘Socially Responsive Design’ (SRVD) projects. It explores how metadesign tools and thinking can support the development of fledgling community initiatives working within changing, uncertain contexts. In Oslo, Norway, as in many other cities in Europe, there is a shift in demographics taking place due to an influx of new immigrants and an aging population. These mixed communities bring together a variety of cultural practices, social needs and desires. The article presents the findings from the first phase of an SRVD project carried out in November 2011 with the MA Design students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). The project, entitled ‘Metadesigning Spaces of Engagement and Exchange’ set about ‘bisociating diversities’ within the community and co-designing ‘seeds’ to revitalize a multi-cultural shopping and cultural centre in V...
Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and inter-connected socio-ecologica... more Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and inter-connected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Rather than fragmenting the world into separate disciplines for the sake of efficiency, an alternative whole systems approach to sustainability education aims to join-up different skill-sets and types of knowledge to improve effectiveness (Sterling, 2001). This requires a shift from the delivery of knowledge via top-down pedagogic methods, to designing the conditions for a critical co-learning to take place. Here, co-learners work together in groups towards the generation of a shared knowledge or ‘knowledge ecology’ (Fairclough, 2005). Currently, in the UK and beyond, education for the arts and design is under stress, largely due to economic instability. How can we approach this as an opportunity to re-design design e...
Abstract: Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-... more Abstract: Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Our ambitious 3-hour workshop will focus on developing scenarios as a way to prospect how design education might respond to a range of possible ecological futures at a systemic level. Method: We will use metadesign thinking and methods to support and innovate new modes of collaborative learning.
This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simu... more This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simultaneously manifest and probe care of self, care of others, care of community, care of matters of ca ...
Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designi... more Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designing for people to designing with people. As metadesign researchers and practitioners we approach our work with designers, interdisciplinary specialists and community experts as a shared, creative, open, emergent and adaptive pursuit aimed at attuning behaviours towards more sustainable futures. From our ongoing collaborative experiments with the Metadesigners Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London and our involvement in SRVD projects with KHiO, Oslo Academy of the Arts, we have framed a set of eight principles and prompts for aspiring socially responsive designers.
What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating n... more What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating new social possibilities? In recent design history, different labels have popped up to describe design research practices that engage with social issues. These include participatory design, service design, transformative design, metadesign and social design. This article explores the notion of socially responsive design, a term coined by design researchers Adam Thorpe and Lorraine Gamman based in the Design Against Crime Research Centre, London, UK. It describes design that makes a social impact, is driven by social issues and delivers social change. Design researchers Hannah Jones and Anette Lundebye attempt to ‘connect the dots’ between a range of socially responsive design approaches taking place in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. They set out to interview six design experts from their network to discover how they define socially responsive design, what it feels like to be involved in ...
Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological... more Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Our ambitious 3-hour workshop will focus on developing scenarios as a way to prospect how design education might respond to a range of possible ecological futures at a systemic level. We will use metadesign thinking and methods to support and innovate new modes of collaborative learning.
Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designi... more Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designing for people to designing with people. As metadesign researchers and practitioners we approach our work with designers, interdisciplinary specialists and community experts as a shared, creative, open, emergent and adaptive pursuit aimed at attuning behaviours towards more sustainable futures. From our ongoing collaborative experiments with the Metadesigners Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London and our involvement in SRVD projects with KHiO, Oslo Academy of the Arts, we have framed a set of eight principles and prompts for aspiring socially responsive designers.
What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating n... more What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating new social possibilities? In recent design history, different labels have popped up to describe design research practices that engage with social issues. These include participatory design, service design, transformative design, metadesign and social design. This article explores the notion of socially responsive design, a term coined by design researchers Adam Thorpe and Lorraine Gamman based in the Design Against Crime Research Centre, London, UK. It describes design that makes a social impact, is driven by social issues and delivers social change. Design researchers Hannah Jones and Anette Lundebye attempt to ‘connect the dots’ between a range of socially responsive design approaches taking place in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. They set out to interview six design experts from their network to discover how they define socially responsive design, what it feels like to be involved in this practice; and how it’s likely to impact on design in the future.
Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological... more Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Our ambitious 3-hour workshop will focus on developing scenarios as a way to prospect how design education might respond to a range of possible ecological futures at a systemic level. We will use metadesign thinking and methods to support and innovate new modes of collaborative learning.
Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowin... more Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowing and complex transdisciplinary collaborations. This can be provocative, messy, awkward - even frigh ...
This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simu... more This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simultaneously manifest and probe care of self, care of others, care of community, care of matters of ca ...
What is the experience of a carbon neutral society? How does it feel to wear a cradle-to-cradle g... more What is the experience of a carbon neutral society? How does it feel to wear a cradle-to-cradle garment? This paper explores how the experiential dimension can enrich the development and communication of sustainability. The authors argue that such an approach can reach where quantitative and abstract language cannot, and foster a deeper relationship with ethical and environmental concerns, thus inviting designers and their colleagues into new and richer idea territories as regards sustainable futures. A series of methods and tools are proposed, designed to promote multi-sensory, and emotive engagement with the sustainability imperative and tested in recent empirical research taking the form of creative workshops. The rationale behind, the operation and benefits of the approaches are introduced through three cases, representing the fashion and automotive industries and a current AHRC funded research project ‘Bench-marking Synergy Levels within Metadesign’, (Goldsmiths, University of ...
Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowin... more Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowing and complex transdisciplinary collaborations. This can be provocative, messy, awkward - even frigh ...
This article proposes how metadesign, a systemic, interdisciplinary and emergent design approach,... more This article proposes how metadesign, a systemic, interdisciplinary and emergent design approach, can provide a dynamic framework for carrying out ‘Socially Responsive Design’ (SRVD) projects. It explores how metadesign tools and thinking can support the development of fledgling community initiatives working within changing, uncertain contexts. In Oslo, Norway, as in many other cities in Europe, there is a shift in demographics taking place due to an influx of new immigrants and an aging population. These mixed communities bring together a variety of cultural practices, social needs and desires. The article presents the findings from the first phase of an SRVD project carried out in November 2011 with the MA Design students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). The project, entitled ‘Metadesigning Spaces of Engagement and Exchange’ set about ‘bisociating diversities’ within the community and co-designing ‘seeds’ to revitalize a multi-cultural shopping and cultural centre in V...
Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and inter-connected socio-ecologica... more Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and inter-connected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Rather than fragmenting the world into separate disciplines for the sake of efficiency, an alternative whole systems approach to sustainability education aims to join-up different skill-sets and types of knowledge to improve effectiveness (Sterling, 2001). This requires a shift from the delivery of knowledge via top-down pedagogic methods, to designing the conditions for a critical co-learning to take place. Here, co-learners work together in groups towards the generation of a shared knowledge or ‘knowledge ecology’ (Fairclough, 2005). Currently, in the UK and beyond, education for the arts and design is under stress, largely due to economic instability. How can we approach this as an opportunity to re-design design e...
Abstract: Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-... more Abstract: Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Our ambitious 3-hour workshop will focus on developing scenarios as a way to prospect how design education might respond to a range of possible ecological futures at a systemic level. Method: We will use metadesign thinking and methods to support and innovate new modes of collaborative learning.
This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simu... more This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simultaneously manifest and probe care of self, care of others, care of community, care of matters of ca ...
Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designi... more Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designing for people to designing with people. As metadesign researchers and practitioners we approach our work with designers, interdisciplinary specialists and community experts as a shared, creative, open, emergent and adaptive pursuit aimed at attuning behaviours towards more sustainable futures. From our ongoing collaborative experiments with the Metadesigners Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London and our involvement in SRVD projects with KHiO, Oslo Academy of the Arts, we have framed a set of eight principles and prompts for aspiring socially responsive designers.
What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating n... more What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating new social possibilities? In recent design history, different labels have popped up to describe design research practices that engage with social issues. These include participatory design, service design, transformative design, metadesign and social design. This article explores the notion of socially responsive design, a term coined by design researchers Adam Thorpe and Lorraine Gamman based in the Design Against Crime Research Centre, London, UK. It describes design that makes a social impact, is driven by social issues and delivers social change. Design researchers Hannah Jones and Anette Lundebye attempt to ‘connect the dots’ between a range of socially responsive design approaches taking place in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. They set out to interview six design experts from their network to discover how they define socially responsive design, what it feels like to be involved in ...
Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological... more Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Our ambitious 3-hour workshop will focus on developing scenarios as a way to prospect how design education might respond to a range of possible ecological futures at a systemic level. We will use metadesign thinking and methods to support and innovate new modes of collaborative learning.
Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designi... more Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designing for people to designing with people. As metadesign researchers and practitioners we approach our work with designers, interdisciplinary specialists and community experts as a shared, creative, open, emergent and adaptive pursuit aimed at attuning behaviours towards more sustainable futures. From our ongoing collaborative experiments with the Metadesigners Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London and our involvement in SRVD projects with KHiO, Oslo Academy of the Arts, we have framed a set of eight principles and prompts for aspiring socially responsive designers.
What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating n... more What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating new social possibilities? In recent design history, different labels have popped up to describe design research practices that engage with social issues. These include participatory design, service design, transformative design, metadesign and social design. This article explores the notion of socially responsive design, a term coined by design researchers Adam Thorpe and Lorraine Gamman based in the Design Against Crime Research Centre, London, UK. It describes design that makes a social impact, is driven by social issues and delivers social change. Design researchers Hannah Jones and Anette Lundebye attempt to ‘connect the dots’ between a range of socially responsive design approaches taking place in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. They set out to interview six design experts from their network to discover how they define socially responsive design, what it feels like to be involved in this practice; and how it’s likely to impact on design in the future.
Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological... more Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and interconnected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Our ambitious 3-hour workshop will focus on developing scenarios as a way to prospect how design education might respond to a range of possible ecological futures at a systemic level. We will use metadesign thinking and methods to support and innovate new modes of collaborative learning.
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responsive design approaches taking place in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. They set out to interview six design experts from their network to discover how they define socially
responsive design, what it feels like to be involved in this practice; and how it’s likely to impact on design in the future.
to ‘connect the dots’ between a range of socially
responsive design approaches taking place in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. They set out to interview six design experts from their network to discover how they define socially
responsive design, what it feels like to be involved in this practice; and how it’s likely to impact on design in the future.