Social Design Research

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Social Design Research is focussed on human-centred, participatory, collaborative, and social innovation methods that support social, environmental and economic well-being. The research members aim for their research outcomes to be responsive, sensitive, informed, relevant, rigorous, and impactful.

Social design is usually marked by strongly defined elements of 'co-creation' and participation between designers and non-designers. Indeed, social design rests on an expanded definition of both design and 'designers' and it is one which considers objects of design that other forms of design research have regarded as being outside of the direct concerns of design; behaviour, social policies, social processes. This expanded scope has allowed social design, and social design research, to address 'big' societal questions; ageing, health, waste, pollution and climate change, governance, and so on. Furthermore, design is seen as being able to liaise between, broker, bring together other specialists in policy and planning and community development especially. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are also highlighted as key features of social design.

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University of Lincoln
Lincoln