Design for Global Challenges and Goals by Tsekleves, Emmanuel; Cooper, Rachel; Spencer, Jak;

Short description:

Design for Global Challenges charts the developments, opportunities and challenges for design research in addressing global challenges facing developing contexts focusing on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Long description:

Design for Global Challenges and Goals charts the developments, opportunities and challenges for design research in addressing global challenges facing developing contexts focusing on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The book explores the role that design and social responsibility play in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how design works in developing contexts. It presents 10 design-led case studies addressing different Sustainable Development Goals ranging from reducing poverty and hunger, improving health and wellbeing, promoting gender equality, developing more sustainable cities and communities, encouraging more responsible consumption and production, and tackling climate change. Design for Global Challenges and Goals also addresses the future, offering foresight into the research in global challenges by identifying the opportunities and emerging trends for researchers.

Providing a guide to the state of the art of design research that addresses the Sustainable Development Goals, this book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students who want their research to address global challenges.

Table of Contents:

PART I Global challenge design in context 1 Introduction; 2 The Sustainable Development Goals; 3 The role of design; 4 Design and social responsibility; 5 Working in developing contexts; PART II Case studies 6 Case study: good health and wellbeing (SDG3): a little dust-up: co-designing cleaning practices in Ghanaian households to combat antimicrobial resistance; 7 Case study: gender equality (SDG5): ten stages of women’s mobility in Pakistan and Malaysia; 8 Case study: clean water and sanitation (SDG6): engaging crisis-affected communities in the design of emergency sanitation facilities; 9 Case study: affordable and clean energy (SDG7): designing through tensions of ‘and/or’: a case study informing qualitative approaches for designers responding to SDG7; 10 Case study: decent work and economic growth (SDG8): the use of creative product design to generate employment opportunities through materials-driven supply chains; 11 Case study: industry, innovation and infrastructure (SDG9): designing for dilemmas: a change agenda for infrastructure; 12 Case study: reduced inequalities (SDG10): ImaginAging Malaysia: bringing participatory speculative design to Malaysia’s exploration of healthy ageing in place; 13 Case study: sustainable cities and communities (SDG11): making safe, sustainable and resilient cities through improved mental health; 14 Case study: climate action (SDG13): CoLaboratory Kitchen; 15 Case study: peace, justice and strong institutions (SDG16): revolt in the square: spatial modelling of urban stability in modern cities; PART III The future 16 Opportunities and the future for global challenge design