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Convivial Design for the American Breakdown

Part II.   Human-Scale Tools for Change
While many authors recently warned of the consequences of an ideology of unfettered growth, including Ronald Wright, Jared Diamond, George Monbiot, and Thomas Homer-Dixon), philosopher/priest Ivan Illich warned us 40 years ago.  He foresaw a collapse of the post-industrial economy, which did not happen then. Illich proposed that autonomous, creative [...]

Intent and Content: Unbooking the Book

Industrial and communications designers, authors, new publishers, product innovators  -  Everyone is rethinking The Book in 2009. So then who owns the concept of the book, anyway? Publishers? Society at large? Those of us who say so? And if we say so, does said ownership prevent certain types of  innovation? What we don’t know about [...]

Design Leadership for Problem Systems

The full article is currently on Social Design, so first let me send readers to Joana’s stunning new design site.  Here I’ll recap the central theme of Design Leadership for Problem Systems.
The design industry grew rapidly in the 20th century, by satisfying the massive and growing needs of consumer products, industrial systems, and a business [...]

Markets of Meaning (Find Portishead a Biz Model)

Thanks to Alex Osterman via Twitter for suggesting this link to their appeal on Creative Commons:

Help Portishead Find a New Business Model

Portishead, an experimental-pop group and pioneers of the early 90s electronica movement, announced yesterday that they are now “free agents”, having completed their three record deal with Island Records. The band is looking at new [...]

What is the contribution of Design in a national economy?

OCAD’s president Sara Diamond advocates for a Canadian national design strategy in the Globe and Mail.
Design is essential to Canada’s science and technology strategy, which underlines the needs of markets in the developing and developed world for new inventions that make use of new and sustainable materials, medical technologies, ICT, digital media, and biotechnology. In [...]

A Peter Jones Place

Dialogue - the search through meaning to understanding - is not common in our culture. Consider how people use the word to refer to very different communicative practices. Dialogue makes sense of different perspectives for a shared concern and enables wise action from that understanding.

Unlike the strategic goal of designed experiences, where we become spectators or at best players, dialogue enacts the real. Dialogic design is not reinventing the social; it is intentional social system design. It is inquiry, understanding, enactment - not technique. It means asking questions that help us discover what matters.

How can Design do better by doing good? How might we innovate a future with more meaning and less stuff? What are the emerging practices of new citizenship? Who are we educating ourselves to become?

Innovation is always turning toward what's next, and what's next is the move toward socially relevant and sustainable practices.

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