Social Innovation and New Industrial Contexts: Can Designers “Industrialize” Socially Responsible Solutions?

Nicola Morelli · 2007 · Design Issues

Summary. Designers have long faced calls to address social and environmental problems, but mainstream industrial production has largely ignored these responsibilities. The paper argues that design has been trapped between market-driven approaches and isolated socially responsible initiatives, with little exploration of middle ground. Recent sustainability studies and environmental targets like Kyoto demonstrate the urgent need for designers to integrate social responsibility into industrial production rather than treating it as separate from economic logic.

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  title   = {Social Innovation and New Industrial Contexts: Can Designers “Industrialize” Socially Responsible Solutions?},
  author  = {Nicola Morelli},
  journal = {Design Issues},
  year    = {2007},
  doi     = {10.1162/desi.2007.23.4.3},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1162/desi.2007.23.4.3}
}

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DOI

10.1162/desi.2007.23.4.3

Categories

innovation-theory, climate-and-environment, general-innovation

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