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

Author
Jonas, Wolfgang, 1953- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Translated from
German
Published/​Created
Basel : Birkhäuser, 2015.
Description
1 online resource

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Subject(s)
Author
Series
Board of International Research in Design. [More in this series]
Summary note
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 international debate to push for a project of responsible design.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 3, 2016).
Language note
English.
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.
ISBN
  • 9783035606539 ((electronic bk.))
  • 3035606536 ((electronic bk.))
  • 3035606366
  • 9783035606362
  • 3035606552
  • 9783035606553
OCLC
961271715
International Article Number
  • 9783035606362
Doi
  • 10.1515/9783035606539
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