Entanglements of Designing Social Innovation in the Asia-Pacific

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-03-214064-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Design Research for Change

Rooted in the places, cultures, histories, and wisdom of the diverse Asia-Pacific region, this book gathers heterogeneous practices of designing social innovation that address various social, political, and environmental challenges.

In contrast to dominant notions of design from the Global North that evolved through industrialisation and modernist thinking, the examples in this book speak to designing that is embodied, relational, temporal, ontological, and entangled deeply with ecologies. This edited volume shares rich and detailed stories from Aotearoa New Zealand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Samoa, Thailand, Vanuatu and a continent now called Australia, that offer honest and critical reflections from practitioners and scholars on designing social innovation. Contributors explore issues of ethics, politics, and positionality in their work. This book highlights the importance of respecting multiple knowledge streams, worldviews, and practices situated in a place. This then supports a plurality of designing social innovation. In all, this book offers ways to sharpen focus on entangled pluralities as a central condition for designing. It is a contribution of hope and inspiration that are becoming more urgently needed in the volatile uncertainties of this world.

This book will be of interest to scholars working in social innovation, service design, social design, participatory design, design anthropology, and Asian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yee, Joyce

Akama, Yoko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Inter-related worldviews of designing social innovation  Section 1  2. Teu le va: “Nurture the space in-between” when Designing with Communities  3. Inter-generational care of ecologies through social learning  4. Place-based Citizen Science as a Heartware approach to build shared values and capacity for watershed management  5. Rescripting The Absurd in Indonesia  Section 2  6. Infrastructuring resilience for sustaining ecosystems: a story from Chikugo, Japan  7. Calling on “aunties” and “nieces”: Empowering women in creative sectors in Southeast Asia through designing mentorship  8. Dynamics of power & participation: lessons from Cambodia and Thailand  9. Relationships matter: the role of family-like bonds and interdependency in designing social innovation practices  Section 3  10. Tikanga-led design: Whanau-led Innovation for System Transformation  11. Design tools for the pluriverse: proposals for designing public services  12. Examining design orientations through Indigenous Filipino strengths perspective  13. Reflections on the role of participants and practitioners in situating participatory design practices  14. Uncovering tracks: Towards conscious, embodied international development practice in the Pacific  15. Learning to see oneself, in community: An inquiry into what makes collaborative design come alive within a community in Myanmar

Über Autor(innen)

Yoko Akama is Associate Professor at RMIT University, School of Design, Australia.

Joyce Yee is Professor at Northumbria University, School of Design, United Kingdom.