Social Design

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing t….

Paul Dolan shows us how to find pleasure and purpose in everyday life. As a professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics, Dolan conducts original research into the measurement of happiness and its causes and consequences, including the effects of our behaviour. Here he creates a new outlook on the pursuit of happiness - it's not just how you feel, it's how you act. Happiness by Design shows that being happier requires us to actively redesign our immediate environment.

Addiction by Design takes listeners into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.

The detailed personality readings Human Design provides empower people to make decisions, choose professions, and create relationships with ease and success because they are no longer struggling against innate strengths and weaknesses. They are instead tapping into their personal power and destiny. Understanding these readings allows people to align their actions with their inherent, truest self.

Discover design strategies for using your own unique social identities and experiences as inspiration to challenge the status quo and create the kind of lasting change that leads to greater equity and social justice, from Stanford University's d.school. Who are you? What motivates you as a...

 Social Business by Design is the definitive management audiobook on how to rethink the modern organization in the social media era. Based on their research and work through the Dachis Group, thought leaders Dion Hinchcliffe and Peter Kim deftly explore how the social, cultural, and technological trends provoked by the social media explosion are transforming the business environment.  

One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts and behaviours of others – just as...

The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens.

Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents due to unforeseen circumstances. Rather, these fluctuations result from the complex bargains made between politicians, bankers, bank shareholders, depositors, debtors, and taxpayers.

When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time.

Already technology enables parents to select some genetic traits for their children, and soon it will be possible to begin to shape ourselves as a species. Countering loud cries of alarm, bioethics expert Ronald Green explains why our fears about genetic engineering are overblown and how we can move forward responsibly to create a better future.

The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy. 1953, New York City Less than a week before the society...

Qual è il profumo che riesce a suscitare in te una sensazione di gioia ogni volta che lo percepisci? E quale effluvio ti riporta istantaneamente tra le vie dei luoghi della tua infanzia? Il profumo non è mero ornamento, ma un'estensione intima della nostra essenza. L'atto di profumarsi rappresenta uno sforzo di ristabilire l'armonia in un universo caotico, attingendo dal nostro io più profondo per affermare la nostra identità o appartenenza, e per inviare un messaggio chiaro al mondo che ci circonda.

This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people - specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism) - and invites listeners to "build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability".  

「都市集中型」か、「地方分散型」か。東京一極集中・地方衰退→格差拡大→財政は改善？
地方への人口分散→格差縮小・幸福感増大→財政は悪化？果たして、第3の道はあるのか。

Här kartlägger jag förutsättningarna för konstnärer, arrangörer och politiker att sätta konsten på kartan. En bok fylld av fakta och tips för konstnärer. En inblick bakom kulisserna för den konstälskande publiken. Funderingar och vägledning för konstföreningar, utställare och uppdragsgivare. Ett helhetsperspektiv för kulturpolitiker. Allt sprinklat via en personlig berättelse från en konstnär som vandrat från aningslös glad amatör till internationellt yrkesverksam konstnär.

'Look' er en bog om tøj, tekstiler og mode. Om at læse og blive læst, og om den transformative kraft, der findes i at klæde sig på, klæde sig ud og skabe et look. Om stoffet mellem os og resten af verden. I 'Look' podes tøj og læsning på hinanden; i en række tekster, som spænder fra essayistik til lyrisk prosa, undersøger Ida Holmegaard tøj som sprog og materiale. Det er en bog om tøjets roller i litteraturen, i at skabe og omskabe køn, i politiske protester, i magtforhold, i sex, kærlighed og på det prekære arbejdsmarked.

Jeg har gået på mange skoler, rigtig mange faktisk. Min far siger, at det ligger til familien at prøve sig lidt frem. Nu går jeg på en skole, der ligger lige rundt om hjørnet fra min fars pizzeria. Det er den sidste skole i min bydel, så det skal bare virke. Berte har en tikkende bombe indeni. Sommetider springer den i luften. Sådan en bombe er ret besværlig at have, for når man gerne vil have en ny ven, bliver man nødt til at lære at tælle til ti.

誰だってコンサルタントにはなれる。これは間違いない。 僕もコンサル経験なしにコンサルができている。コンサルっていうのは、知識の 問題ではなくてスタンスの問題なんです。別の言い方をすれば、無理なコンサル と無理のないコンサルがあって、無理のないほうを選べば、誰だってコンサルで きる。アドバイスできるんですよ。ホントです。 ■偉そうにして自分を守る愚かさ たとえば、広告会社相手に、彼らの本業である広告のコンサルティングをしよう としたら、相当な覚悟が必要です。 専門家に専門領域を説くわけですから、最新の知見を提供しなければ納得しません し、間違いがあればすぐに見破られてしまう。これは辛い。辛そうで辛くない、では なくほんとに辛い。そのため、本人も過剰に防衛的になってしまいます。偉そうな雰 囲気を漂わせ、質問しにくい感じに振る舞う。偉そうにしている人は自信がない人で、 見る人が見ればすぐにバレてしまう。「ああ、無理してるな」と思うわけです。（本文より） 小山龍介の「ライフハック・ストリート」はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/koyama.html

La población urbana se duplicará en cuarenta años, algo que obliga a la transformación holística y sostenible del modelo de ciudad. Para Martha Thorne, decana de IE School of Architecture and Design y directora ejecutiva del Pritzker Architecture Prize, el gran reto de la arquitectura está en su capacidad para hacer metrópolis, que serán más densas y poseerán una alta calidad urbana y una mayor calidad de vida para los residentes.