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Leyla Nasib@leyla_nasibleyla.nasib@gmail.com

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0.2 million years

160 million years

Dinosaur designed by Tiago Rodrigues from the Noun Project; Man designed by Sean Patrick Quinn from the Noun Project

0.2 million years

The World is a total mess...

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:TerjeEggum_Monaco_LewisPugh.JPG

All Design is social, as design is the enactment of human instinct and a construct that facilitates the materialisation of our world… that we all tend to design by changing existing situations into preferred ones.

- Alastair Fuad-Luke, Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

All Design is social, as design is the enactment of human instinct and a construct that facilitates the materialisation of our world… that we all tend to design by changing existing situations into preferred ones.

While the primary purpose of design for the market is creating products for sale… the foremost intent of social design is satisfaction of human needs.

- Alastair Fuad-Luke, Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

All Design is social, as design is the enactment of human instinct and a construct that facilitates the materialisation of our world… that we all tend to design by changing existing situations into preferred ones.

While the primary purpose of design for the market is creating products for sale… the foremost intent of social design is satisfaction of human needs.

Designing new functionings to elevate individual and community capability, and enabling solutions that genuinely empower and extend the capability of the user.

- Alastair Fuad-Luke, Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

Solving throughEmpowering

Solvingthrough aPrescription

Social Design:• Aid• Arts & Culture• Communication• Community• Education• Environment• Peace• Poverty• Well-beinghttp://www.design21sdn.com/

Design for GOOD!!!

Purpose of Designing • Survive• Improve• Develop• Thrive• Evolve• Serve Others• Make something of lasting quality• Create something of real consequence • Participate in the never-ending genesis

Harold G. Nelson, Erik Stolterman - The Design Way

Design for GOOD!!!

Design for BAD!!!

Intentional/Unintentional

image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blyzz/7361210748/story: Philipp Ronnenberg on Transmediale 2014

GPS

image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blyzz/7361210748/story: Philipp Ronnenberg on Transmediale 2014

http://unpleasantdesign.tumblr.com/

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/apartheid-signs/cQE5d7UH3fuyMQ?exhibitId=gRYXaIRR

http://superuw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/120213-apartheid-roads.jpg

Fast Fixes to BIG problems, Wicked problems!

Wicked ProblemsA class of social system problems which are ill-formulated, where the information is confusing, where there are many clients and decision makers with conflicting values, and where the ramification in the whole system are thoroughly confusing

Horst Rittel, Melvin M. Webber - Dilemmas in a general theory of planning

Wicked ProblemsA class of social system problems which are ill-formulated, where the information is confusing, where there are many clients and decision makers with conflicting values, and where the ramification in the whole system are thoroughly confusing

...difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.

Horst Rittel, Melvin M. Webber - Dilemmas in a general theory of planning

http://designing.planetngo.nethttp://aidbrella.org

‘The civil servant in Finland who set up an offline version of Wikipedia for a small school in Ghana.’

Where to get inspiration:

How could we..?

How could we..?• Within our commercial projects• Through social projects• Online Design projects• Support Open Source, Alternative Economies• Helping the person next-door• ...• ...• ...• ...•∞

How could we..?

Any design can be SOCIAL!

http://www.lovingyourchild.com/2010/06/imagery-kids-powerful-healing-tools/

HOW COULD YOU?

http://www.lovingyourchild.com/2010/06/imagery-kids-powerful-healing-tools/