Dear Colleagues, 

Here is a collection of accessible web resources on social design. Many web sites provide a selection of useful resources including open access books, documents, and reports within the site, as well as occasional Vimeo lectures and other web broadcast material.

The sections here are:

1) Helsinki Design Lab — Archival Site — 1 item, a repository 
2) Current Active Centers, Projects, and Organizations — 20 items, various
3) IDEO and IDEO spinoffs — 5 items, various, including several repositories 
4) Systemic Design — 5 items, various, including several repositories 
5) Open Access Books — 9 items, downloadable books
6) DesignMatters Library — some Open Access items — 1 item, a repository
7) Open Access Articles — 30 items, all downloadable open access articles

This is a quick collation of useful resources that I’ve read or worked with in the past few years. I include material that others have suggested to me in the past year or so. This isn’t a systematic or comprehensive collection. It is a useful starting point for anyone interested in social design. I post it to demonstrate that there is a working field of social design and that we can properly label a design field.    

There is a reasonable degree of overlap between the literature of social design and the literature that appears under the rubric of design thinking. This makes sense: design thinking processes are often useful for working with social problems. Adding useful design thinking to this collection would make it unmanageable. As it is, anyone interested in social design can get a decent overview of the field and the issues involved by visiting these sites and downloading the materials.

This collection offers enough material to permit a serious graduate-level seminar introducing the topic. The open-access books and articles in sections 5, 6, and 7 form the basis of a good reading program. I’d also recommend one book:

Jones, Peter and Kyoichi Kijima, eds. 2018. Systemic Design. Theory, Methods, and Practice. Tokyo: Springer.

If you simply want to get an idea about the scope and relevance of social design, these links will provide a few hours of useful browsing and grazing.   

Yours,

Ken Friedman

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1) Helsinki Design Lab — Archival site

1.1 Helsinki Design Lab is now closed, but the site documents five years of outstanding work. The other sites represent active projects.  

http://helsinkidesignlab.org <http://helsinkidesignlab.org/>

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2) Current Active Centers and Projects

2.1 Sipus Design

http://www.sipusdesign.com <http://www.sipusdesign.com/>

2.2 UK Government Policy Lab

https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/category/policy-lab/ <https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/category/policy-lab/>

2.3 Public Policy Lab

http://publicpolicylab.org <http://publicpolicylab.org/>

2.4 UCSD Design Lab

https://designlab.ucsd.edu <https://designlab.ucsd.edu/>

2.5 Curry Stone Foundation

https://currystonefoundation.org <https://currystonefoundation.org/>

2.6 Social Design Pathways

http://www.socialdesignpathways.com <http://www.socialdesignpathways.com/>

2.7 MICA Research Center for Social Design

https://www.mica.edu/research/center-for-social-design/ <https://www.mica.edu/research/center-for-social-design/>

2.8 DesignMatters at Art Center College of Design

https://designmattersatartcenter.org <https://designmattersatartcenter.org/>

2.9 Shift Design

https://shiftdesign.org <https://shiftdesign.org/>

2.10 RI.SE

https://www.tii.se/projects/designing-social-innovation <https://www.tii.se/projects/designing-social-innovation>

2.11 Lucy Kimbell

http://www.lucykimbell.com/LucyKimbell/Home.html <http://www.lucykimbell.com/LucyKimbell/Home.html>

2.12 Social Design

http://www.plateforme-socialdesign.net/en <http://www.plateforme-socialdesign.net/en>

2.13 Design School Kolding Lab for Social Design

https://www.designskolenkolding.dk/en/lab-social-design <https://www.designskolenkolding.dk/en/lab-social-design>

2.14 Mötesplats Social Innovation

http://socialinnovation.se <http://socialinnovation.se/>

2.15 TU Delft Design for Values

http://designforvalues.tudelft.nl <http://designforvalues.tudelft.nl/>

2.16 TU Delft Design for Values — Social Design

http://designforvalues.tudelft.nl/projects/social-design/ <http://designforvalues.tudelft.nl/projects/social-design/>

2.17 DashMarshall

http://www.dashmarshall.com <http://www.dashmarshall.com/>

2.18 Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking

http://taylor.tulane.edu <http://taylor.tulane.edu/>

2.19 Creative Social Change

https://www.creativesocialchange.org <https://www.creativesocialchange.org/>

2.20 Snowcone & Haystack

http://snowcone.fi <http://snowcone.fi/>

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3) IDEO and IDEO spinoffs

3.1 IDEO

https://www.ideo.com/eu <https://www.ideo.com/eu>

3.2 Design Thinking

https://designthinking.ideo.com <https://designthinking.ideo.com/>

3.3 Creative Difference

https://creativedifference.ideo.com/#/ <https://creativedifference.ideo.com/#/>

3.4 IDEO Org

https://www.ideo.org <https://www.ideo.org/>

3.5 OI Engine

https://www.oiengine.com <https://www.oiengine.com/>

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4) Systemic Design

4.1 Systemic Design

https://systemic-design.net <https://systemic-design.net/>

4.2 Research in Systemic Design Proceedings (includes much work on social design), all open access

https://systemic-design.net/rsd-symposia/ <https://systemic-design.net/rsd-symposia/>

4.3 Proceedings and other systemic design publications, some open access 

https://systemic-design.net/publications/ <https://systemic-design.net/publications/>

4.4 Systems Oriented Design at Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Much open access material.

http://www.systemsorienteddesign.net <http://www.systemsorienteddesign.net/>

4.5 Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD University. Much open access material.

https://slab.ocadu.ca <https://slab.ocadu.ca/>

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5) Open Access Books

5.1 Social Design of Technical Systems

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-social-design-of-technical-systems-building-technologies-for-communities-2nd-edition <https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-social-design-of-technical-systems-building-technologies-for-communities-2nd-edition>

5.2 Social Design Methods Menu

http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff/Fieldstudio_SocialDesignMethodsMenu.pdf <http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff/Fieldstudio_SocialDesignMethodsMenu.pdf>

5.3 Ethnography Field Guide

http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/ethnography-fieldguide.html <http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/ethnography-fieldguide.html>

5.4 Legible Practices

http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/legible-practises.html <http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/legible-practises.html>

5.5 In Studio

http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/studio-book.html <http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/studio-book.html>

5.6 Creative Collaborations

http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/creative-collaborations.html <http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/creative-collaborations.html>

5.7 Case Studies

http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/case-studies.html <http://helsinkidesignlab.org/pages/case-studies.html>

5.8 Social Design Futures

https://mappingsocialdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/social-design-report.pdf <https://mappingsocialdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/social-design-report.pdf>

5.9 ABC i Design och Social Innovation

http://socialinnovation.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MSI_ABC_A6_PDF.pdf <http://socialinnovation.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MSI_ABC_A6_PDF.pdf>

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6) DesignMatters Library — some Open Access items

6.1 DesignMatters Library

https://designmattersatartcenter.org/library/books-articles/ <https://designmattersatartcenter.org/library/books-articles/>

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7) Open Access Articles

7.1 Introduction to Social Design

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2622/723 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2622/723>

7.2 Utopian Molecular and Sociological Social Design

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2414/721 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2414/721>

7.3 Imagination Lancaster

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.11.001 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.11.001>

7.4 Helen Hamlyn Center Royal College of Art

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2017.06.001 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2017.06.001>

7.5 The Simplification Centre

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.05.002 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.05.002>

7.6 Communication Research Institute of Australia

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.05.004 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.05.004>

7.7 How Design Education Can Use Generative Play to Innovate for Social Change

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2588/770 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2588/770>

7.8 Social Design as a Creative Device in Developing Countries

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2407/747 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2407/747>

7.9 The Goldilocks Conundrum: The ‘Just Right’ Conditions for Design to Achieve Impact in Public and Third Sector Projects

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2381/724 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2381/724>

7.10 Service Design for Social Innovation through Participatory Action Research

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2456/717 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2456/717>

7.11 Using Community Engagement to Drive Co-Creation in Rural China

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2458/722 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2458/722>

7.12 Sharing Design Agency with Local Partners in Participatory Design

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2403/718 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2403/718>

7.13 Publics Participation and the Making of Umeå Pantry

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2507/716 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/2507/716>

7.14 Designing for Social Interaction in Open-Ended Play Environments

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/1754/669 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/1754/669>

7.15 How the Design of Socio-technical Experiments Can Enable Radical Changes for Sustainability

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/1308/636 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/1308/636>

7.16 Designing for Social Configurations: Pattern Languages to Inform the Design of Ubiquitous Computing

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/993/357 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/993/357>

7.17 Designing to Support Social Connectedness: The Case of SnowGlobe

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/710/358 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/710/358>

7.18 Social Interaction Design in Cultural Context: A Case Study of a Traditional Social Activity

http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/341/154 <http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/viewFile/341/154>

7.19 DesignX: Complex Sociotechnical Systems

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.01.002 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.01.002>

7.20 Problem Framing Expertise in Public and Social Innovation

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.01.003 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.01.003>

7.21 Design Research and Practice for the Public Good: A Reflection

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.02.005 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.02.005>

7.22 From Autonomous Systems to Sociotechnical Systems: Designing Effective Collaborations

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.09.001 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.09.001>

7.23 Value-Pluralism and the Collaboration Imperative in Sociotechnical Systems

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.12.001 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.12.001>

7.24 Distinguishing Between Control and Collaboration—and Communication and Conversation

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.12.002 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.12.002>

7.25 Collaboration and Sociotechnical Systems—A Question of Context and Framing

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.12.003 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.12.003>

7.26 From Designing to Enabling Effective Collaborations

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.12.004 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2016.12.004>

7.27 When You Come to a Fork in the Road Take It: The Future of Design

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2017.07.003 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2017.07.003>

7.28 Social Means Do Not Justify Corruptible Ends: A Realist Perspective of Social Innovation and Design

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2017.07.002 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2017.07.002>

7.29 Design Research at the Crossroads of Education and Practice

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2017.05.003 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2017.05.003>

7.30 Blindspots in Economics and Design: A Review of John Heskett’s Design and the Creation of Value

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.02.002 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.02.002>

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Ken Friedman, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/ <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/>

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