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Design Driven Innovation for Sustainability: An Analysis of 7 Cases

Communications in Computer and Information Science, ISSN: 1865-0937, Vol: 1088, Page: 329-342
2019
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  • Citations
    1
    • Citation Indexes
      1
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  • Captures
    20

Conference Paper Description

The current consumption and production pattern is unsustainable. How to make sustainable economy possible requires an influencing agent to promote. With the multi-stakeholder participation, design enhanced as a powerful driving force for the sustainable transformation and improving people’s well-being. Based on the literature review and 7 case studies, including ecosystem restoration camp, 100-mile food movement, world widely organic farms, collaborative chronic care network, participatory ground water management project, Chinese ancient cosmetics restoration project and a flax project, this paper aims to explore the role of design in promoting sustainable changes with an attempt to complete the theory of social innovation design. “Design-driven innovation” taking the understanding of the evolution process of the social culture and put forward the new perspectives in regard to the persistence of the new vision. The design-driven innovation is the result of the research process of the social action network, which need to be achieved with joint efforts of the actors ranging from the institutions, enterprises, non-profit organizations, citizens, associations. This is conducted with special emphasis placed on stimulating the bottom-up actions to enable the sustainable economic model to become the mainstream.

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