on Social Design.

Early in December 2008, the UK Design Museum announced the nominations for the 2009 Brit Insurance Design of the Year award, including a nomination for the first EVER service design project to be included in the awards – The Social Innovation Lab for Kent (SILK), by Engine. SILK is a project and a platform Engine have been developing with Kent County Council (a local government authority in the UK) that helps users and providers of public services create better services together using design ... Read More

What better to inaugurate a blog on social design thinking than some thinking on "Social Design" ? Is it just me or is "Social Design" really everywhere now? Possibly it's just my perception, shaped by the fact that this is my daily work. Nonetheless, if you don't find exactly "social" and "design" as matches, you will surely get one of these - design for development, responsible design, systemic design, service design, lifestyle design, holistic design, deep design, mindful design, intentional design, strategic design, eco ... Read More

It’s six o’clock in the afternoon. Inside the bus there are around 80 people, many of them standing. Apart from the city raining outside, the only unusual thing to be found inside the bus is a poster, sitting too small inside the frame. Carris *1 puts up these occasional posters to inform us, among other things, about the February 11th referendum *2. We all know about the referendum, we all watched the impassioned debates and the book launches on TV, we all ... Read More

In addition to population growth, consumerism has been also putting a lot of stress in our planet. Actual forecasts predict that around 2050 we will have 50% more people living here. 9 billion human beings striving for water, food, clothes, shelter…and eventually taking part of the consumer society. It may sound controversial, but if we eradicate poverty, around 4 planets would be necessary to supply our needs and aspirations. Amidst this challenging scenario, designers and advertisers play a critical role: not just for ... Read More