Social Design
Author: Robert Sommer
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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Building Successful Online Communities
Author: Robert E. Kraut
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016-02-12
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0262528916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities. Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never attracted enough members to be viable. This book offers lessons from theory and empirical research in the social sciences that can help improve the design of online communities. The authors draw on the literature in psychology, economics, and other social sciences, as well as their own research, translating general findings into useful design claims. They explain, for example, how to encourage information contributions based on the theory of public goods, and how to build members' commitment based on theories of interpersonal bond formation. For each design claim, they offer supporting evidence from theory, experiments, or observational studies.
Social Design Cookbook
Author: Attila Bujdosó
Publisher: Attila Bujdosó
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 6150051919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do people turn their homes into a restaurant for a day? Why do people volunteer for scientific or community projects without getting paid? How can one get people actively involved in social projects? Social Design Cookbook uncovers what it takes to organise successful and sustainable social initiatives. It features comprehensive case studies of a broad, international selection of social cooperative formats that have been successful in their local communities and have also been successfully replicated in other locations and contexts. By looking at an array of such practices, the authors have developed the Social Design Canvas, which can be used to analyse and design new forms of social collaboration and cooperation. Case studies: PECHAKUCHA NIGHT, RESTAURANT DAY, COMPLAINTS CHOIR, CRITICAL MASS, NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH, GALAXY ZOO, FORTEPAN, SUBJECTIVE ATLAS, FAB LAB, THE PORT HACKATHON, MUSEOMIX, THE LONG NIGHT OF MUSEUMS, USE-IT, DEMOCRACYOS, JÁRÓKELŐŐ,REESOUND, WIKIDATA, OPENSTREETMAP Download Social Design Canvas templates at socialdesigncookbook.com. This cookbook lives up to its name! You rarely find a book so accessible and hands-on, yet so beautifully designed. If you conduct projects that involve people you have to read this. — Jakob Schneider, co-author and designer of This is Service Design Thinking/Doing This book is loaded with tips, tricks and best practices. Start implementing them so you can experience how much power communities hold to induce great changes. — Péter Halácsy, co-founder at Prezi.com and CEO at Budapest School
Designing for the Social Web
Author: Joshua Porter
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 2010-04-07
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 013208953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application. Inside, you’ll discover: • The real reasons why people participate online and the psychology behind them • The Usage Lifecycle—or how people use your web application over time • How to get people past that trickiest of hurdles: sign-up • What to do when you’ve launched a web application and nobody is using it • How to analyze the effectiveness of your application screens and flows • How to grow your social web application from zero users to 1000—and beyond Designing for the social web is about much more than adding features. It’s about embracing the social interaction of the people who make you successful—and then designing smartly to encourage it.
Social Design
Author: Claudia Banz
Publisher: Companyédition Museum für Gestaltung Zürich/Lars Müller
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783037785706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society, government, and the economy. Social design is thus a response to a global growth economy and its consequences for humans and the environment: The means of production and resources are becoming scarcer, setting off discussions about the need to redesign social systems and living and working environments. Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping this social culture. 'Social Design' thus presents a long-overdue survey of current international positions of interdisciplinary breadth, ranging from new infrastructures to the re-conquest of cities by their inhabitants. Some twenty-seven projects in the areas of cityscape and countryside, housing, education and work, production, migration, networks, and the environment are framed by three research studies that trace the historical roots and foundations of social design and look at today's theoretical discourse as well as future trends.
The Social Design Reader
Author: Elizabeth Resnick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1350026034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of the notion of socially responsible design. This volume represents the authentic voices of the thinkers, writers and designers who are helping to build a 'canon' of informed literature which documents the development of the discipline. The Social Design Reader is divided into three parts. Section 1: Making a Stand includes an introduction to the term 'social design' and features papers which explore its historical underpinnings. Section 2: Creating the Future documents the emergence of social design as a concept, as a nascent field of study, and subsequently as a rapidly developing professional discipline, and Section 3: A Sea Change is made up of papers acknowledging social design as a firmly established practice. Contextualising section introductions are provided to aid readers in understanding the original source material, while summary boxes clearly articulate how each text fits with the larger milieu of social design theory, methods, and practice.
Design, When Everybody Designs
Author: Ezio Manzini
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2015-02-20
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0262028603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability. In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold—an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. Manzini distinguishes between diffuse design (performed by everybody) and expert design (performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of collaboration. These range from community-supported agriculture in China to digital platforms for medical care in Canada; from interactive storytelling in India to collaborative housing in Milan. These cases illustrate how expert designers can support these collaborations—making their existence more probable, their practice easier, their diffusion and their convergence in larger projects more effective. Manzini draws the first comprehensive picture of design for social innovation: the most dynamic field of action for both expert and nonexpert designers in the coming decades.
Social Matter, Social Design
Author: Jan (editor) Boelen
Publisher: Valiz
Published: 2020-08
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789492095848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen you start to deconstruct or question design, all sorts of questions emerge: How does design affect our behaviour, our use of resources, our choices and freedoms to participate in social, political or economic decision-making, and the extent to which we feel we have agency over our lives? Jan Boelen in conversation with Michael Kaethlers Social matter, social design' challenges the way we look at, think of, and interact with the social world by emphasising the role of materiality. This enlarged field for engagement demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of ?social design?, and offers novel forms of critical and meaningful engagement at a time of mounting social contradictions.0The essays in this book explore and unveil uncanny, disconcerting or discordant connections, bricolages, assumptions or breaches at critical junctures for transformation. They are centred around four major themes: the body; earth; the political; and technology.
Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability
Author: Siu, Kin Wai Michael
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2018-07-06
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1522541845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigners provide creative solutions for user problems and identify the needs of users in a given environment. However, it is often difficult to understand the social design of a product or service. Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability is a critical scholarly resource that provides groundbreaking research on social contributions to design. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as rural sustainability, ecological farmhouse designs, and community public spaces, this book is geared towards architects, designers, program planners, entrepreneurs, and engineers seeking information about design for resolving social issues.
Designing for Society
Author: Nynke Tromp
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-12-27
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1472569768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur globalised world is encountering problems on an unprecedented scale. Many of the issues we face as societies extend beyond the borders of our nations. Phenomena such as terrorism, climate change, immigration, cybercrime and poverty can no longer be understood without considering the complex socio-technical systems that support our way of living. It is widely acknowledged that to contend with any of the pressing issues of our time, we have to substantially adapt our lifestyles. To adequately counteract the problems of our time, we need interventions that help us actually adopt the behaviours that lead us toward a more sustainable and ethically just future. In Designing for Society, Nynke Tromp and Paul Hekkert provide a hands-on tool for design professionals and students who wish to use design to counteract social issues. Viewing the artefact as a unique means of facilitating behavioural change to realise social impact, this book goes beyond the current trend of applying design thinking to enhancing public services, and beyond the idea of the designer as a facilitator of localised social change.
