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Designing for the 21st Century, 2-volume set - Volume 1: Interdisciplinary Questions and Insights and Volume 2:Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings (Mixed media product, New Ed)
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Designing for the 21st Century, 2-volume set - Volume 1: Interdisciplinary Questions and Insights and Volume 2:Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings (Mixed media product, New Ed)
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As we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we
are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of
new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and
society demand the design of solutions to increasingly complex
problems, sometimes local, often global in nature. Customers, users
and stakeholders are no longer passive recipients of design,
expectations are higher, and increased participation is often
essential. Volume 1 explores these issues through the work of 21
research teams. Over a twelve-month period each of these groups
held a series of workshops and events to examine different facets
of future design activity as part of the UK's research council
supported Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative. Each
of these 21 contributions describes the context of enquiry, the
journey taken by the research team and key insights generated
through discourse. Editor and Initiative Director, Tom Inns,
provides an introductory chapter that suggests ways that the reader
might navigate these different viewpoints. Volume 2 from the
Designing for the 21st Century team is to capture a sense of the
many ways design thinking has been applied to a broad range of
issues. Each chapter describes the context for project work and the
main research questions, which framed each project. A great
opportunity exists to communicate the actual research methods that
have been used, many of these involve an interdisciplinary approach
and clear descriptions provide a great repository of knowledge for
future design researchers. Each chapter concludes with a review of
the new knowledge and understanding generated through project work
and a description of potential beneficiaries. Whereas the phase-one
projects focused on in the original volume covered
interdisciplinary discussion and network building, phase-two
projects have engaged in interdisciplinary research experimenting
with a variety of methods and techniques to develop new knowledge
and understanding for different stakeholders.
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