Design<i>with</i>society: why socially<i>responsive</i>design is good enough

Thorpe, Adam; Gamman, Lorraine

doi:10.1080/15710882.2011.630477

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“…The emphasis, once again, is on design processes and how they can positively influence partnerships and community development by offering rich visualisations of future scenarios (Cross, 2011;Thorpe and Gamman, 2011). The activity of visualising scenarios, as demonstrated in the paper, is a common design tool that allows participants to envisage and debate a future that is safer and more liveable, in turn permitting the emergence of solutions that have a positive impact.…”

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Introduction to Design+Crime

Asquith

Dorst

Kaldor

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Crime Prev Community Saf

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This special issue of Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal comprises select papers presented at the First International Design+Crime Conference and Exhibition held at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia in December 2012. Design+Crime provided a transdisciplinary forum for discussion on how the disciplines of design and criminology are becoming interlinked in crime prevention practice and academia. Academics and practitioners from design, urban planning, architecture, as well as criminology, law enforcement, social geography and policy development shared in this unique discussion and showcased a growing collection of innovative approaches to crime prevention. Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2013Safety ( ) 15, 169-174. doi:10.1057Safety ( /cpcs.2013 Keywords: criminology; crime prevention; design thinking; frame creation Design+Crime T his special issue is guest-edited by the organisers of the Design+ Crime Conference who are based at the Designing Out Crime research centre (DOC) at the University of Technology, Sydney. This Centre strives to bring innovative and creative design to crime problems. The articles in this volume have been authored by a broad range of international experts with academic roots in the fields of design and crime; the articles cover topics from neighbourhood regeneration and community safety to perceptions of residential safety and the impact of anti-social behaviour on public transport.In collating this issue, the editors ask the question: Does the fusion of design and criminology create a new discipline area? Criminology has © 2013 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 1460-3780 Crime Prevention and Community Safety Vol. 15, 3, 169-174 www.palgrave-journals.com/cpcs/ developed many frameworks, theories and tools for understanding crime, and provides for deep understanding of crime in environmental, social and political contexts. The design disciplines are in the business of understanding the creation process and distilling it into practice areas such as architecture, planning and industrial design. Certainly, there has been crossover between the disciplines historically, with theorists such as Newman (1972) coming from a design background and contributing heavily to criminological theory and practice. However, the body of design research has developed significantly in the last 50 years with a renewed focus on the problem-solving approaches used by designers, rather than the qualities of the things they make (for recent examples, see Matthews and Heinemann, 2012;Björklund, 2013;Ozkan and Dogan, 2013). Although we are far from a definitive answer to the question of whether the Design+Crime equation provides a new discipline area, the articles in this issue certainly illustrate approaches that extend beyond the traditional boundaries of design and criminology, respectively. In discussing the articles, and those presented at the Design+Crime conference, the editors reflected that there may be three answers to this equation. They are outlined as f...

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Introduction to Design+Crime

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Kaldor

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Crime Prev Community Saf

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“…Similarly, Le Dantec and DiSalvo (2013) focus on capacity building and the forming of attachments as main elements for building and maintaining long-term relationships that are strong and flexible enough to allow for controversies and uncertainties (Hillgren, 2013;Thorpe and Gamman, 2011). Capacity building is thus defined as a process in which designers develop means to support participants' skills for building communities.…”

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Diálogos democráticos que fazem funcionar as cidades

Huybrechts

Dreessen

Schepers

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which permits reproduction, adaptation, and distribution provided the original author and source are credited. AbstractThe field of Strategic Design supports designers in researching and designing for the complexity of today's cities by embracing the idea of strategic dialogue, in which designers align with different actors and their interests. In this article, we discuss how democratic dialogues -foregrounded in the Participatory Design (PD) tradition -play a role in complex urban design processes (i.e. 'infrastructuring') and entail different types of dialogues of which strategic dialogue is merely one. After framing Strategic Design and PD, we describe five designer roles and their associated dialogues. This description forms the basis of an exploratory typology of democratic dialogues that was applied and exemplified in a case study about a Living Lab in the neighbourhood of Genk. The Lab attempts to design alternative futures for work in the city together with citizens, public and private organisations. We claim that engaging with this typology allows designers to understand and design infrastructuring processes in the urban context and to open up different design dialogues and roles for discussion.Keywords: democratic dialogues, living lab, urban context, designer roles, infrastructuring. ResumoO campo do design estratégico apoia o trabalho de designers que pesquisam e projetam para a complexidade das cidades de hoje. De fato, ao abraçar a ideia do diálogo estratégico, os designers se alinham com diferentes atores e seus interesses. Neste artigo, discutimos como diálogos democráticos -que estão em primeiro plano na tradição do Design Participativo (PD) -são relevantes em processos complexos de design urbano (ou seja, de "infraestruturação") e implicam diferentes tipos de diálogos, entre os quais o diálogo estratégico é apenas um. Depois de enquadrar Design Estratégico e PD, descrevemos cinco papéis do designer e seus relativos diálogos. Esta descrição constitui a base de uma tipologia exploratória de diálogos democráticos que foi aplicada e exemplificada em um estudo de caso sobre um Living Lab, no bairro de Genk. O Lab tenta projetar futuros alternativos para o trabalho na cidade, juntamente com os cidadãos, organizações públicas e privadas. Afirmamos que se envolver com esta tipologia permite que os designers entendam e projetem processos de infraestruturação no contexto urbano e se abram para diferentes diálogos de design e papéis para a discussão.Palavras-chave: diálogos democráticos, living lab, contexto urbano, papéis do designer, infraestruturação.

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“…Under a variety of labels-humanitarian design, design for the majority, or social impact design-designers have long exhorted one another to set aside the production of consumer products for a relatively wealthy minority, and to instead refocus their attention, aided by ethnographic methods, on the many "wicked problems" facing marginalized groups ignored or underserved by the market (Papaneck 1984;Schwittay 2014;Thorpe and Gamman 2011). As design professionals increasingly apply their research and iterative problem-solving approaches to humanitarian challenges, however, they have been criticized, by anthropologists and designers alike, for repeating problematic practices of mid-twentiethcentury poverty alleviation and international development projects.…”

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“…Adopting inclusive approaches like participatory action research and co-design can help decenter the authority of design professionals and activist anthropologists (Baba 2000, 33;Thorpe and Gamman 2011). Asset-based (as opposed to more traditional needs-based) approaches to community economic development can identify what existing informal support networks and other resources a community has to work with, and then encourage leaders within that community to mobilize those resources to assert their collective rights or agitate for changes that they want to see (Mathie and Cunningham 2005).…”

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Doing Good is Hard: Ethics, Activism, and Social Impact Design as Seen from the Grassroots Perspective

Greger

2017

Ethnographic Praxis

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Designwithsociety: why sociallyresponsivedesign is good enough

Cited by 78 publications

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Introduction to Design+Crime

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Diálogos democráticos que fazem funcionar as cidades

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