As I walked on the shore of Cape Town to the opening ceremonies of a conference on
design in South Africa, I saw through the rain and mist a small sliver of land in the …

Contemporary design practices, such as participatory design (PD), human-centered design
(HCD), and codesign, have inherent ethical qualities, which often remain implicit and …

Experts seem to agree that in the past decades little scholarly attention has been paid in
development and design scholarship to ethics and global justice issues. The subject is …

Design–the designer and designed objects, images, systems and thines–shapes the form,
operation, appearance and perceptions of the material world we occupy. Design, as an …

How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with
nonhumans, with whom we are entangled. Over the past forty years, designers have …

How Design CAN CHANGE the World Today, everyone is a designer. And the future of
civilization is our common design project. How does design help choose our leaders? Why …

Human-centered design is a burgeoning field of study that has the potential to work toward
actively creating more just and equitable technology design while critically interrogating the …

This is a book for students who design artefacts of the kind studied in design and
architectural schools. Aside from the question implicit in its title, it asks what skills and …

Introduction Design education is evolving rapidly in the People's Republic of China. In the
era of the" planned economy," from 1949 to the early 1980s, there were few design schools …

Finally, in an attempt to go beyond this “generational” evolution of design thinking, Nigel
Cross, in his 1981 paper, introduced arguments to encourage a paradigmatic shift with the …