Wednesday, September 2, 2009

beginning to think about social design

What is social design? ... according to Socialdesignsite.com
"Design, in its broader sense, is more than the creation and shaping of products and services; it is anything and everything man-made.  This broad understanding of the term also implies that design can be unconscious and is, therefore, inevitable. We believe this also applies to social design. We understand social design as the inescapability of social interaction and the resulting consequences of such action. We are social beings: we interact everyday with people and we cannot escape acting in relation to others. Every single day, we are faced with choices: we may do today what we did yesterday or we may do something different, altering our daily routine. The resulting actions from our choices, no matter how insignificant they might appear, have consequences. We create and design our social world with these choices and actions. This is the concept behind our claim: "You cannot not change the world." Nevertheless, you should keep in mind that you will not leave this site KNOWING what social design is. Rather, you will leave contemplating what it may be, just as we do. There is no single understanding of social design and there are final answers in this emerging discussion. This fact, however, should only make this discourse all the more compelling."

I don't know enough information YET but i will keep posting.


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