Design and Social Innovation at the Margins

Finding and Making Cultures of Plurality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12922708
AutoresAndrew Light (0000-0001-9145-6609, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas13-35
Fecha de publicación2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDesign and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1754-7075 • E-ISSN: 1754-7083
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17547075.2019.1567985
OpenAlexW2912853823
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas19

Design has become a global activity dominated by one set of cultural interests to produce a consistency of practice. This essay uses an experience of design for social innovation in northern Finland, inspired by land and place, to speculate upon the dimensions across which plurality in designing could be embraced in an increasingly globalized world. Informed by discussions while helping to run the Design and Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific events of 2016, it uses Kasulis’ analysis of cultural orientation and his insight that a key difference underpinning cultures is how people may orientate towards intimacy and integrity. It then explores what a form of intimate design might look like. In doing so, it uses Ingold’s study of North-ness to challenge totalizing narratives of progress and explore what a marginal view can offer to address site-specific needs and dispense with design orthodoxies

Aesthetics · Consistency (knowledge bases · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Social innovation · Sociology · Underpinning · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Engineering · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction