Ezio Manzini

Design is increasingly moving beyond disciplinary boundaries to address contemporary challenges in society, demanding collaboration not only between different design professions but also with future users and other groups of stakeholders. Manzini frames this development as design for social innovation, and does an excellent job of tying together many existing ideas in co-design, participatory design and societal innovation processes. The book indicates a hopeful way forward for humanity and points to some of the ways in which design can, and should, play a role in such transformative processes.… (meer)