TITLE:
I Stood Up: Social Design in Practice
AUTHORS:
Tom Corby, Dilys Williams, Vivek Sheth, Virkein Dhar
KEYWORDS:
Design, Social Design, India, United Kingdom, Practice-Based Research, Art and Design
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.4 No.2,
May
18,
2016
ABSTRACT: Through practice-based research, we explore how interdisciplinary design projects can function
to address social issues concerning environmental and social problems. Using two case studies
developed between London in the United Kingdom, and Delhi and Ahmedabad in India, we discuss
the importance of engagement with the people who the design ultimately serves. Finally, we argue
that design concerned with complex social problems require equally complex, multidimensional
responses, informed by bodies of knowledge, practices and approaches that lie outside of traditional
design approaches.