Making Futures - Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy (Paperback)

Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future. Innovation and design need not be about the search for a killer app. Innovation and design can start in people's everyday activities. They can encompass local services, cultural production, arenas for public discourse, or technological platforms. The approach is participatory, collaborative, and engaging, with users and consumers acting as producers and creators. It is concerned less with making new things than with making a socially sustainable future. This book describes experiments in innovation, design, and democracy, undertaken largely by grassroots organizations, non-governmental organizations, and multi-ethnic working-class neighborhoods. These stories challenge the dominant perception of what constitutes successful innovations. They recount efforts at social innovation, opening the production process, challenging the creative class, and expanding the public sphere. The wide range of cases considered include a collective of immigrant women who perform collaborative services, the development of an open-hardware movement, grassroots journalism, and hip-hop performances on city buses. They point to the possibility of democratized innovation that goes beyond solo entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing in the service of corporations to include multiple futures imagined and made locally by often-marginalized publics. Contributors Mans Adler, Erling Bjoergvinsson, Karin Book, David Cuartielles, Pelle Ehn, Anders Emilson, Per-Anders Hillgren, Mads Hobye, Michael Krona, Per Linde, Kristina Lindstroem, Sanna Marttila, Elisabet M. Nilsson, Anna Seravalli, Pernilla Severson, Asa Stahl, Lucy Suchman, Richard Topgaard, Laura Watts

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The MIT Press
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Pelle Ehn • Elisabet M. Nilsson • Richard Topgaard
Contributors:	Pelle Ehn • Elisabet M. Nilsson • Richard Topgaard • Anders Emilson • Per-Anders Hillgren • Anna Seravalli • Sanna Marttila
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-53748-3
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Postmodernism in art & design Promotions
LSN:	0-262-53748-6
Barcode:	9780262537483

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