Social Transformation Design as a Form of Research Through Design (RTD): Some Historical, Theoretical, and Methodological Remarks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 4
3. Foreword BIRD 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Transformation Design Starts with People Dreaming: Designers and Theatre Makers Design Utopias for Major Transformation. An Essay 23
6. Transformation Design: A Piecemeal Situational Change 33
7. Deep Involvement: On Transformation Processes Related to the RhyCycling Project 43
8. Transformation Design: Creating Security and Well-Being 61
9. Owls to Athens, or: The Discrete Charm of Transformation Design. An Essay 75
10. Could Design Help to Promote and Build Empathic Processes in Prison? Understanding the Role of Empathy and Design in Catalysing Social Change and Transformation 83
11. Approaching Our Dog: Transformation Design – An Attempt 101
12. Social Transformation Design as a Form of Research Through Design (RTD): Some Historical, Theoretical, and Methodological Remarks 114
13. Design and Social Change: The Changing Environment of a Discipline in Flux 134
14. Human Systems Design: A New Direction for Practice 149
15. Designing for Sustainable Development: Industrial Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Social Innovation 166
16. Mobility Peak: Scenes from a Deceleration 177
17. Transformation Design: A Social-Ecological Perspective 188
18. Designing ‘Matters of Concern’ (Latour): A Future Design Challenge? 202
19. Rapid Prototyping Politics: Design and the De-Material Turn 227
20. Collective Metamorphosis: A Combinatorial Approach to Transformation Design 246
21. Transformation Design as ‘Hero’s Journey’ 263
22. Authors 277
23. Backmatter 286