ANNA MERONI, PhD, is a scholar and professor in Service and Strategic Design at Politecnico di Milano. She works on design activism, social innovation and sustainability, with a specific focus on food and housing systems [...]
Medea research on design for social innovation has been featured in Knowledge Connect, a site where the latest thinking on “social impact” is reviewed. A recently published article in Co-Design by Hillgren et [...]
[PUBLICATION] In exploring how design could support socially shaped innovation, the paper discusses the experience of designing Fabriken, a socially shaped infrastructure for socially shaped innovation. This article is t [...]
The documentary Design the New Business explores how the design and business fields are starting to influence each other: designers acknowledge the importance of business models, business people acknowledge the importanc [...]
[PUBLICATION] Design methods and tools have recently been applied in new fields, one of them being social innovation. This article discuss and suggest some approaches and concepts related to design for social innovation. [...]
[PUBLICATION] This article discusses the nature of enabling platforms and how they could be designed referring to a concrete case: the establishment of the fabrication space Fabriken in Malmö, Sweden. By Anna Seravalli [...]
X is a designer/researcher. His work focuses on how to help social movements to develop practices for spreading news and information in ways that do not rely on the Internet as main platform of communication, but rather [...]
Anders Emilson is a PhD student in interaction design with a focus on design for social innovation. Last week, MEDEA hosted a seminar where Emilson led a discussion on the topic “Designing With the Bees and the Tre [...]
[PUBLICATION] In recent years, design for social innovation has emerged as a new research field. Design has been acknowledged by public agencies and NGOs as one of the tools to tackle the complexity of social issues. How [...]
One of the most prestigious academic journals in the field of design history, theory, and criticism is Design Issues, published by MIT Press since 1984. It is a toll-access journal, meaning that you have to pay to access [...]
[PUBLICATION] Design för social innovation är ett nytt designforskningsområde som håller på att växa fram internationellt. Läs Anders Emilsons kartläggning om hur social innovation kan lösa många av samtidens k [...]
