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Social Innovation
  • Generative Design Research For Social Innovation

    Introduction This paper describes what you will need to consider when you are planning to do generative design research for social innovation. I will start by discussing generative design research for commercial innovation in comparison to social innovation and then describe what is unique about design for social innovation. Commercial Innovation vs. Social Innovation Designers […]

    Elizabeth Sanders
    No responses April 19, 2018
  • Information design, research and ethics

    Information design is an ethically motivated approach to designing. It is ethical because it recognizes the people addressed as different from the groups that create the communications. Awareness of the differences, however, is indispensable but insufficient. It motivates the approach, but to execute it in an effective manner it becomes necessary to engage in user […]

    Jorge Frascara
    No responses April 18, 2018
  • Connecting the Autism Spectrum Disorder Community Through Design

    Introduction Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the most common neurological disorder in children and is impacting our society in profound ways. ASD now affects approximately one in 68 births. Given this prevalence rate, it is estimated that there are 60,000 people affected by ASD in British Columbia alone [1]. Autism is characterized by a complex […]

    Caylee Raber and Stacie Schatz
    No responses April 17, 2018