Comments on: Design 21 Contest Giveaway

By: greenermags

greenermags — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:30:38 +0000

Instead of trying to give my opinion of what social design is, I’m trying to think about what it isn’t. Anti-social.

By: clorie87

clorie87 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:55:24 +0000

Social design is just as the name implies: designing for people. More often than not, design (such as furniture, architecture, fashion etc) is targeted at only the upper class who can afford to buy a name. The words “social design” imply designing to serve a population. Designing intelligently, working with the environment and learning from her as well in order to produce the most socially and ecologically responsible product, and then making said product readily available to everyone: this is social design.

By: BENMURPHYONLINE

BENMURPHYONLINE — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:40:49 +0000

Social Design is design that catalyzes social change… it must challenge assumptions, spark thought, and ultimately move people to action. Otherwise, it just makes social problems look good. -B

By: johnHoysa

johnHoysa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Social Design to me is design for everyone. It can be graffiti or even a simple “No Parking” sign or even the signs on a restroom door. It is design that we just absorb into our life with out even knowing it.

By: carolinezmccarth

carolinezmccarth — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In my opinion, it’s design that’s shaped by society and its collective consciousness, rather than design with the intention of shaping society (and that collective consciousness) to its mold.

By: papyromancer

papyromancer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The GNU GPL is an example of perfect social design. It requires anyone who modifies GPL code to share their modifications with the community.

By: nem0

nem0 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Social design is giving means for community development and interaction.

By: msekhar

msekhar — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Social design is design with the society in mind. Social design would be more reflective of everyone in the community, and the diversity and commonalities of our collective realities.

By: eakspeasyzgmailz

eakspeasyzgmailz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Social design exists as the context of the everyday, the everyone and the everywhere; it is tangible groupthink.

By: TshirtFiend

TshirtFiend — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For me, respect is really the key to social design. By respect, I mean respect for other humans, respect for the environment, respect for your surroundings, respect in essentially any way that the word can be used. While Design is often concerned with its target audience, rarely is anything else considered. It would never be possible to consider all of the ramifications of a design, but social design should strive to examine as many as possible.