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Design as Participation
As designers, we make choices that other people have to live with. Our responsibility as designers is to make those choices count. System thinking is one way of thinking about how we can make more ethical and holistic choices. A systems approach to designing needs strong partnerships to overcome complexity. Systems thinking is an approach that incl... See more
Boxes and Arrows • Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
most often assumed to be members of the dominant,
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
It’s not the specific materials or techniques that are used that matter, Manzini emphasizes, so much as the collaborative associations that are formed when universal challenges are considered in a local and unusual way: the agency that comes from reformulating a problem.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
When we innovate only in terms of a solutionist framework, Easterling argues in her book Medium Design , we optimize for static outcomes wedded to the status quo of product-market fit. Solutions are one-time fixes, usually implemented by someone else, which break as soon as the context they’re responding to changes (which it does, constantly)
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