Transformative Research and its Discontents: A design practitioner reflects
[ Personal and societal transformation] are intertwined and that personal transformation is a necessary component of research that is designed to support change at the societal level […] if we design our research so that it explicitly addresses issues of discrimination and oppression that the probability of personal and social transformation increases. (Mertens, 2017) This […]
Core values guiding Nordic social design practice
Distilling the core values underpinning my conceptualization of Nordic social design, as introduced yesterday, and adding links to previous writing on each selected word. To review briefly, I introduced the concept of Nordic social design by combining Koskinen’s (2016) definition where the object of design is the social for ex. social structures, processes, practices, forms […]
Designing an organization for delivering Nordic social design
I arrive at the concept of Nordic social design by combining Koskinen’s definition of ‘new social design’ (Koskinen, 2016) as that where the object of design is the social for ex. the social structures, processes, practices, forms of actions, etc., with elements drawn from Markussen’s original framework (Markussen, 2017) to set the purpose of this […]
