| Description |
191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Social design--Past and present / Angeli Sachs -- Urban space and landscape. Campo libero (The Innocent House) -- Reinstating small-scale neighborhoods in the megacity -- Foodmet market building -- Granby four streets -- Housing, education and work. Kalkbreite residential and commercial complex -- Coop campus, die Gärtnerei -- Community library -- Khayelitsha -- Lycée Schorge Secondary School -- Design without walls / Claudia Banz -- Production. Ateliers chalamala -- Flying8 loom -- Cucula - Refugees Company for crafts and design -- Migration. Paper emergency shelters for UNHCR -- Refugee olympic team flag -- Hit et Nunc -- magdas Hotel -- Social design in education and research / Michael Krohn -- Networks. Fairphone -- M-Pesa -- One laptop per child -- Solarkiosk -- Environment. Little sun -- Warka tower -- Safir water filter -- MoSan -- 10,000 gardens of Africa |
| Summary |
Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society, government, and the economy. Social design is thus a response to a global growth economy and its consequences for humans and the environment: The means of production and resources are becoming scarcer, setting off discussions about the need to redesign social systems and living and working environments. Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping this social culture. 'Social Design' thus presents a long-overdue survey of current international positions of interdisciplinary breadth, ranging from new infrastructures to the re-conquest of cities by their inhabitants. Some twenty-seven projects in the areas of cityscape and countryside, housing, education and work, production, migration, networks, and the environment are framed by three research studies that trace the historical roots and foundations of social design and look at today's theoretical discourse as well as future trends |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 187-189) |
| Notes |
An exhibition and publication of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich |
| Subject |
Design -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century
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Sustainable design -- Exhibitions
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Architecture -- Human factors -- Exhibitions
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City planning -- Social aspects -- Exhibitions
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Architecture and society -- Exhibitions
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Social responsibility of business -- Exhibitions
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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History.
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publications.
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| Author |
Sachs, Angeli, editor, writer of essay
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Banz, Claudia, writer of essay
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Krohn, Michael, writer of essay
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Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, editor
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Lars Müller Publishers, publisher
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| ISBN |
9783037785706 |
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3037785705 |
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