The SocialDesignBlog welcomes design practitioners, design thinkers, design critics, students, scholars and theoreticians of all backgrounds to contribute with their views on Social Design. See here how you can propose a post. The following writers have already contributed to the SocialDesignBlog:
(ordered by number of posts)
- Joana Bértholo (10)
- Ghazaleh Etezal (3)
- Gustavo Machado (2)
- Kate Andrews (2)
- Frederico Duarte (1)
- Kathleen Raftery (1)
- Nora Vargas (1)
- Peter Jones (1)
- Tommaso Minnetti (1)
- Wibowo Sulistio (1)
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Joana pursued her studies in Communication Design in the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Lisbon. She worked as a graphic designer and a photographer, but her main focus has always been in research and writing. She published 2 (fiction) books in her native Portugal, and the third one is due to be released soon. Joana joined the SocialDesignSite in June 2007 as an intern, integrating the team that redesigned the platform and made it into the collaborative participatory project it is today. She collaborates also with the INDEXawards, Design to Improve Life, the largest Design award, based in Copenhagen. She has recently landed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where in the upcoming 6 months she will be carrying out research and field work for her PhD on Cross-Cultural projects and Social Design.
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2008, December : Naming the Pots - for an ongoing definition of Social Design
2008, December : Buy Nothing Christmas?
2008, December : Design and conceptual art
2009, January : The least a designer can do : about codes and deontology
2009, February : Social Design at IM Magazine
2009, February: In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
2009, March: 100 Best Blogs for Those Who Want to Change the World
2009, April: How will the latest scientific discoveries inform design practices?
2009, May: Declare Interdependence
2009, June: God is Argentinean
Born in Tehran Iran, Ghazaleh is a recent Graphic Design graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto Canada. After 4 years of design education in “Design for Humanity”, “Sustainability” and “Think Tank” at OCAD she began designing her future by using her enthusiastic personality, networking skills, drive and passion for improvement, and 10 years of growing up as a graphic designer. Moreover, the communication problems in her personal life, school, city and the world became more evident to her as she pursued the research for her thesis on social networking and community building starting in her 3rd year (2006). Ghazaleh volunteered and interned at TakingITGlobal, and then took on the lead design role at the Youth Programme of the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto. After being empowered by the energy of socially active youth, Ghazaleh decided to act like a leader and empower people through design, so she started with her school. In 2007, she then carried on her passion to a 5-month mobility at Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota FL) followed by a summer internship at SamataMason. In her final year at OCAD Ghazaleh intensified her entrepreneurial spirit with a thesis that started with an idea and after 2.5 years linked her to diverse projects and people, growing into a massive network. Her graduation presentation of her thesis philosophy, Internet Of Life. Her project out of ThinkTank merging with her thesis concept that will soon evolve into the launch of 2 enterprises, TheStoreFront Community. An inaugural grassroots festival in Toronto, BIG on Bloor Festival. Her personal website and her blog.
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2009, January : Love, violence and mastering the joy of design
2009, January: One life: make money to save yourself; make art to save the world
2009, February: Do good: be bad to yourself
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Gustavo is a designer and educator with an almost Utopian dream: redesign the world. After almost 20 years of successful practice in advertising, design and new media, developing projects for global companies and receiving international accolades for his work, he realized that it was time to change. The challenges that our planet are facing nowadays require a new breed of designers capable not just to address complex problems, but also find solutions that will not compromise future generations. His passion about education and humanity led him to share his knowledge through DesignEducation.ca and also pursue a Masters Degree primarily focused on social and sustainable design at Miami International University. Upon completion, Gustavo is planning to keep teaching as well as develop projects for ethical companies and organizations around the globe. Gustavo can be reached at gustavo (at) gustavo-machado (dot) com.
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2008, December : Over. Consumption.
2009, February: DIY Love Guide
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Kate is a socially engaged design writer and consultant based in the UK. Since graduating with a First Class Honours in Graphic Design, Kate has worked with a number of clients including; Inhabitat, thomas.matthews, Greengaged, thinkpublic, Design21, Three Trees, and the SocialDesignSite. An avid blogger and user of social media, Kate is passionate for the power that Communication Design has to impact social change. Kate is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and is currently undertaking a part time Masters Degree in Design Writing Criticism, at London College of Communication.
Kate can be contacted at kcandr (at) gmail (dot) com. http://kateandrews.wordpress.com
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2008, December : First Ever Award Nomination for service design project
2009, January : Design matters, like never before.
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After having studied communication design in Lisbon, and having worked as a designer in Kuala Lumpur and Treviso, Frederico (Lisbon, 1979) joined the Associação Experimenta team from 2003 to 2006. Having worked in curating, programming and communication at ExperimentaDesign — Bienal de Lisboa and other projects, he was also assistant curator of product design for the [P] — Design de Portugal exhibition, with shows in Milan and Lisbon. He has been working as a freelance writer and curator on with various projects and publications for the past two years. Since September 2008 he is part of the inaugural class of the Design Criticism MFA programme, at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2008, December : The Bureaucratic Duty to Inform.
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Kathleen currently works at Empax. She is a native New Yorker and a graduate of NYU. Fresh out of college she headed west to Oregon where she wrote articles and sold ad space at Yoga Northwest Magazine. Two years, dozens of road trips and countless Down Dogs later she returned home to New York to hang out with her family and pursue a career in advertising. During her time at a boutique ad agency she did a great many things, among them edit video ethnographies and produce TV and radio spots for Match.com. After 3 + years in the industry, she decided something of a pilgrimage was in order. So she quit her job, gave away her furniture, and set out to explore Asia. During her months abroad she realized she wanted to combine her background in media with social responsibility. She then clicked her heels three times and found herself at Empax where she is often laughing, learning and eating chocolate.
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2009, February : Black Tuesday is the new pink.
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Nora was born in El Salvador and she is 22 years old. She studied graphic design at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy. Before going abroad, she did the International Baccalaureate in El Salvador, having Art and Geography as her major subjects. It was during this period where she started to get interested in social issues. Throughout her academic career in Milan, she developed a great interest in social design focusing on social communication. Her final dissertation was an innovation project that seek to aid the children orphaned by AIDS in Mozambique. Currently she is gaining an immense interest in innovation projects, design processes and design research. She is currently doing an internship at Lodown magazine in Berlin and has started to collaborate with the SocialDesignSite.
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2009, August : Who would have thought design could be so deep?
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Peter Jones founded Redesign Research in 2001, specializing in depth research for human-centered innovation. Peter has designed market-leading interactive information services for legal, medical, business, and scientific applications, such as Procedures Consult.
He completed his Ph.D. at The Union Institute. Peter’s research agenda investigates how professionals use information in their decision-making, how knowledge practices are formed, and how organizational values are formed and influence products and business performance.
His current research explores ways in which organizations design practices of long-range foresight and reflective renewal to improve innovation. This research expresses a perspective on organizational transformation based on fundamental revisioning of strategies aligned with values.
Peter is also founding partner of Dialogic Design International, a consultancy that advances participatory dialogue for democratic engagement of stakeholders in navigating complex problem systems. He wrote Team Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to Collaborative Innovation and recently, We Tried to Warn You: Innovations in leadership for the learning organization. Many of his articles can be found online, including designdialogues.com.
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2009, March : Design Leadership for Problem Systems
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Italian Art Director. Enough said. Tommaso boasts five years experience in agencies across Europe of ignorant people getting his name wrong. In Milan he studied at Accademia di Comunicazione and worked under the creative direction of industry legends Francesco Emiliani and the late Marco Mignani. In Amsterdam, he has given the benefit of his creative genius to Lemon Scented Tea and his current patrons Gummo. When not copying and pasting, he likes to dedicate himself to passing on his accumulated wisdom to the new generations of creative talent. He was awarded an honourable mention at the 2004 D&AD awards and a first prize as best social communication project at the 2007 Arete Awards by the Italian Ministry of Communication. See also: Good 50 x 70
PUBLISHED POSTS: 2009, March : Good 50×70: another year older, a little bit wiser
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Bowo is just like many others trying to do their bit in the world while leading a good life doing the good fight. He strives to understand both ends of social design: the single individual, and the global civilization. His passion is in learning about, digging out, coming up wih, and putting together elements of a life-sustaining civilization design. Bowo currently serves as Chief Editor for WiserEarth.org, an online platform connecting the people and organizations who are transforming the world and providing them with tools and resources to help them work better together.
Visit him on WiserEarth, on Facebook, or drop him an email at bowo [at] wiserearth [dot] org
PUBLISHED POSTS:
2009, March : Social Design: Weaving Human Intention Across Divides
