Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
Are you sure you want to delete this address?
Making Futures Marginal Notes On Innovation Design And Democracy
Hardback Edition: 1
Innovation and design need not be about the search for a killer app. Innovation and design can start in peoples everyday activities. They can encompass local services, cultural production, arenas for public discourse, or technological platforms. The approach is participatory, collaborative, and engaging, with users
and consumers acting as producers and creators. It is concerned less with making new things than with making a socially sustainable future. This book describes experiments in innovation, design, and democracy, undertaken largely by grassroots organisations, non-governmental organisations, and multi-ethnic working-class neighborhoods.
...
more
These stories challenge the dominant perception of what constitutes successful innovations. They recount efforts at social innovation, opening the production process, challenging the creative class, and expanding the public sphere. The wide range of cases considered include a collective of immigrant women who perform collaborative services, the development of an open-hardware movement, grassroots journalism, and hip-hop performances on city buses. They point to the possibility of democratized innovation that goes beyond solo entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing in the service of corporations to include multiple futures imagined and made locally by often-marginalised publics.
Featured in the December 2014 Creative Enterprises newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.
Pages : 392
Publisher : MIT Press
Publication date : 2014-12-02
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film