Transformation Design: Perspectives on a New Design Attitude

Published by Birkhäuser 2015

Transformation Design

Perspectives on a New Design Attitude

Edited by: Wolfgang Jonas , Sarah Zerwas and Kristof von Anshelm

In the series Board of International Research in Design

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035606539

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Design in the post growth society

“Transformation design” is looking for new ways to change our behavior and society through new forms of innovation. The existing user-oriented approach of design must therefore be extended to one that is society-oriented.

The concept of transformation is based on the anthropologist Karl Paul Polanyi and his book The Great Transformation (1944), which described the emergence of the now almost undisputed and globally widespread western market logic: the transformation of societies with markets into market societies, which he calls “dislodgment of the markets”.

Meanwhile, leading think tanks are referring to Polanyi. They are calling for a new social contract and the “re-embedding” of the market into society. What are the possible instruments and contributions of design for this new “Great Transformation”?

The variety of the above questions, answers, theories, methods, ideas, and projects suggests that “transformation design” is not in fact a discipline in itself, but that it will lead 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.

Current topical debate on design and society

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Wolfgang Jonas; Sarah Zerwas; Kristof von Anshelm, Braunschweig University of Art.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	4
Foreword BIRD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Wolfgang Jonas, Sarah Zerwas and Kristof von Anshelm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Transformation Design Starts with People Dreaming: Designers and Theatre Makers Design Utopias for Major Transformation. An Essay Kristof von Anshelm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Transformation Design: A Piecemeal Situational Change Nicolas Beucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Deep Involvement: On Transformation Processes Related to the RhyCycling Project Flavia Caviezel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Transformation Design: Creating Security and Well-Being Caroline L. Davey and Andrew B. Wootton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Owls to Athens, or: The Discrete Charm of Transformation Design. An Essay Michael Erlhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Could Design Help to Promote and Build Empathic Processes in Prison? Understanding the Role of Empathy and Design in Catalysing Social Change and Transformation Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Approaching Our Dog: Transformation Design – An Attempt Franziska Holzner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Social Transformation Design as a Form of Research Through Design (RTD): Some Historical, Theoretical, and Methodological Remarks Wolfgang Jonas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Design and Social Change: The Changing Environment of a Discipline in Flux Gesche Joost and Andreas Unteidig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Human Systems Design: A New Direction for Practice Victor Margolin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Designing for Sustainable Development: Industrial Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Social Innovation Gavin Melles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Mobility Peak: Scenes from a Deceleration Stephan Rammler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Transformation Design: A Social-Ecological Perspective Bernd Sommer and Harald Welzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Designing ‘Matters of Concern’ (Latour): A Future Design Challenge? Peter Friedrich Stephan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Rapid Prototyping Politics: Design and the De-Material Turn Matthew Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Collective Metamorphosis: A Combinatorial Approach to Transformation Design John Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Transformation Design as ‘Hero’s Journey’ Sarah Zerwas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Designforschende, Designstudierende, Umwelt-, Sozial-, Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaftler
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 29
Keywords: Innovation; Marktgesellschaft; Nachhaltigkeit; verantwortliches Design; Klimawandel

eBook

Published: November 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783035606539

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Published: November 13, 2015
ISBN: 9783035606362