The professional landscape for design in social invation has reached a critical moment. Designers are w acting as mediators, synthesizers and key contributors of social and environmental challenges at a strategic level. Organizations are recognizing that designers bring a unique set of abilities and methods for developing human-centered artifacts, services, environments and systems. Fueled in part by strong student demand, new graduate and undergraduate programs in social design are emerging across the nation. Graduates from these programs are entering the workforce with expanded skill sets and aspirations about their role(s) as creative individuals.LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Invation is a first-of-its-kind book that explores the new careers in the emergent field of design for social invation with contributions from 84 leaders from across disciplines and sectors. These contributors encompass diverse points of view, stories and experiences about key issues, creating a multilayered picture of how this field is being shaped. The book's distinctive framework, presented through a series of informal dialogues interposed with first-person essays, day-in-the-life entries and case studies, addresses the spectrum of challenges and opportunities for those building careers in design for social invation, and for the organizations looking to support those careers. The unexpected pairings of perspectives in the dialogues push each other to uncover insights and ideas that are at times provocative, at times reflective, at times informative--but always engaging and accessible.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Design Matters
ISBN-10
0996196420
ISBN-13
9780996196420
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222169991
Product Key Features
Author
Christopher Scoates
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Design & Commercial Art
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
CA
Date of Publication
26/07/2016
Country of Publication
United States
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