Materializing the Agency of Design in Innovation Practices.

This article critically reviews how we think about design in technology and service innovation. Human-centered design has emerged in this science-driven field as a way to include the interests of humans and their needs in production processes. As such, design has a considerable effect on the develop...

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Publicado en:Design Issues Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 81 - 92
Autor principal: Neubauer, Ruth M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: MIT Press Winter2022
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Sumario:This article critically reviews how we think about design in technology and service innovation. Human-centered design has emerged in this science-driven field as a way to include the interests of humans and their needs in production processes. As such, design has a considerable effect on the development of new technologies and services. Making visible the agency of design in these practices thus is of immense importance. A gap remains in the ability of current concepts of design to visualize and conceptualize design agency. Therefore, drawing on concepts of materiality in design and practice, this article proposes a framework that makes design agency visible.