TY - JOUR
T1 - Being a Sociable Designer
T2 - Reimagining the Role of Designers in Social Innovation
AU - Tjahja, Cyril
AU - Yee, Joyce Sheau Roei
N1 - Funding information: This work was supported by the Design Research Society.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The democratisation of the creative process in design and social innovation has brought the position of the designer into question. Therefore, a shift is necessary from the traditional role-based approach towards one that is value-based. This paper introduces the sociable designer, who is driven by being social, rather than doing social. Based on insights from field work conducted in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, this reorientation highlights the value of design in supporting the reconfiguration of social relationships by thinking of design as a socially-embedded practice.
AB - The democratisation of the creative process in design and social innovation has brought the position of the designer into question. Therefore, a shift is necessary from the traditional role-based approach towards one that is value-based. This paper introduces the sociable designer, who is driven by being social, rather than doing social. Based on insights from field work conducted in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, this reorientation highlights the value of design in supporting the reconfiguration of social relationships by thinking of design as a socially-embedded practice.
KW - Design and social innovation
KW - designer role
KW - relationships
KW - Architecture
KW - Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
KW - Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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U2 - 10.1080/15710882.2021.2021244
DO - 10.1080/15710882.2021.2021244
M3 - Article
VL - 18
SP - 135
EP - 150
JO - CoDesign
JF - CoDesign
SN - 1571-0882
IS - 1
ER -