Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Angeli Sachs (eds.)

Social Design

Participation and Empowerment

Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society,

government, and the economy. Social design is thus a response to a global growth economy and its consequences for humans and the environment: The means of production and resources are becoming scarcer, setting off discussions about the need to redesign social systems and living and working environments.

Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping this social culture.

Social Design thus presents a long-overdue survey of current international positions of interdisciplinary breadth, ranging from new infrastructures to the re-conquest of cities by their inhabitants. Some twenty-seven projects in the areas of cityscape and countryside, housing, education and work, production, migration, networks, and the environment are framed by three research studies that trace the historical roots and foundations of social design and look at today’s theoretical discourse as well as future trends.

Social Design features projects such as Fairphone, Little Sun (Olafur Eliasson, Frederik Ottesen), Paper Emergency Shelters for UNHCR (Shigeru Ban) and many more.

Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society,

government, and the economy. Social design is thus a response to a global growth economy and its consequences for humans and the environment: The means of production and resources are becoming scarcer, setting off discussions about the need to redesign social systems and living and working environments.

Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping this social culture.

Social Design thus presents a long-overdue survey of current international positions of interdisciplinary breadth, ranging from new infrastructures to the re-conquest of cities by their inhabitants. Some twenty-seven projects in the areas of cityscape and countryside, housing, education and work, production, migration, networks, and the environment are framed by three research studies that trace the historical roots and foundations of social design and look at today’s theoretical discourse as well as future trends.

Social Design features projects such as Fairphone, Little Sun (Olafur Eliasson, Frederik Ottesen), Paper Emergency Shelters for UNHCR (Shigeru Ban) and many more.

Edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Angeli Sachs

With essays by Claudia Banz, Michael Krohn, Angeli Sachs

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in

192 pages, 242 illustrations

paperback

2018, 978-3-03778-570-6, English
CHF 80.00
Out of print

Angeli Sachs

Angeli Sachs (*1956) is an art historian, curator and museologist. Until 2019, she was curator at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and until 2012 she was head of exhibitions at the same institution. From 2009 until 2022, she was head of the Master's Programme in Art Education / Curatorial Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts. Angeli has published widely on architecture, design, art, culture and curatorial studies of the 20th and 21st century and she has curated numerous exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, including “Social Design” at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum from 2018–2021.

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