Melles, Gavin, de Vere, Ian and Misic, Vanja (2011) Socially responsible design: thinking beyond the triple bottom line to socially responsive and sustainable product design. CoDesign, 7 (3-4). pp. 143-154. ISSN 1571-0882
Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2011.630473
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Item Type: | Article |
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
As the focus of product design has shifted from exclusively commercial to sustainability and social concerns, design education in this area has endeavoured to keep pace. Victor Papanek's book Design for the real world, crystallised many of the systemic social, economic and environmental concerns into an argument for change through eco-design, inclusive design and, in business and corporate contexts, a triple bottom line of social, environmental and economic factors. Simultaneously, design has developed and evolved participatory and co-design approaches, with high-profile consultancies such as IDEO proving that early involvement of designers with ‘wicked’ social and environmental problems is possible. This position paper revisits Papanek's agenda for industrial design, and examines the link with participatory approaches, and existing socially responsible design agendas and examples. Identifying eight critical features of socially sustainable product design, this paper suggests that Papanek's original agenda for socially responsible and sustainable design has been partly fulfilled and must be developed further through the changed role of the designer as facilitator of flexible design solutions that meet local needs and resources.
Keywords: | social design, sustainability, systems, product design, Education, socially responsive |
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Subjects: | W Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies W Creative Arts and Design > W240 Industrial/Product Design |
Divisions: | College of Arts > Lincoln School of Design |
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ID Code: | 53770 |
Deposited On: | 21 Mar 2023 05:14 |
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