Systemic Service Design by Suoheimo, Mari; Jones, Peter; Lee, Sheng-Hung;

Short description:

Systemic Service Design provides a comprehensive overview of how systems theories can be integrated into service design to address complex social-economic-technological challenges. The book delivers theoretical and practical knowledge for students and designers, managers, public and private sector planners, engineers and politicians.

Long description:

Systemic Service Design provides a comprehensive overview of how systems theories can be integrated into service design to address complex social-economic-technological challenges. Across 14 chapters split into two sections, the book connects theoretical backgrounds and practical worldwide case studies to explore various approaches to systems thinking.

The field of service design has evolved significantly in recent years, from focusing on touchpoints and user interactions to being seen as a driver for organizational transformation and increasingly, a key component in transdisciplinary spaces involving complex systems. However, while service design has grown over the past few decades, it has also recognized its limitations in addressing complex societal problems. For example, the book highlights how a lack of holistic understanding of the systems in place can lead to service failure, which ultimately results in societal issues relating to unemployment, healthcare, and public transportation. As such, this book offers theoretical and practical resources specifically tailored to service designers in order to equip them with the ability to develop solutions that are appropriate in scope, depth, and feasibility to address these complex issues. Contributing authors draw upon and integrate theories from related disciplinary fields to extend the contextualization of service design within complex systems, providing readers with more scientific frames of reference. The book also draws upon case studies from South and North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, to offer readers wide-ranging perspectives and real-life examples to further their understanding of systemic service design and demonstrate how to integrate it successfully.

The book delivers theoretical and practical knowledge for students and designers in the fields of service design, design for policy, social design, and additionally for managers, public and private sector planners, engineers, and politicians.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

1. Innovations in theory and practice of systemic service design  Section 1: Theoretical background for systemic service design  2. Blending boundaries: A thorough exploration of systems-oriented design and service design integration  3. Mess Mapping and Gigamapping tools to understand systems in services  4. Emerging systemic turn in service design  5. Dancing with power dynamics inside systemic service design projects  6. Systemic oppression in service design  7. Systems-oriented service design in urban planning contexts  Section 2: Systemic service design cases  8. Case study of Mess Mapping process: improving long-term care services  9. Social structures relevant to longevity service systems  10. Designing for structural, social and political viability in national-scale systemic interventions  11. From state of chaos to the essence of the issue: framework employing service and systemic design principles in the context of criminality  12. Towards the cocreation of digital remote care service ecosystems  13. Enhancing empathy through AI in service systems  14. Conclusions