Design for a Better Future

Name: Design for a Better Future
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138059801
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A guide to designing in complex systems

By John Body and Nina Terrey

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Design for a Better Future explores the use of design thinking to address complex global challenges such as climate change, family violence, and malnutrition. Drawing on over a decade of experience at ThinkPlace, the authors present the Design System™ methodology that unites diverse voices to create sustainable, positive change. This book serves as both a roadmap and an instruction manual for innovative problem-solving and collaborative action.
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Ideal for professionals, changemakers, and anyone interested in design thinking, social innovation, and tackling large-scale societal issues through collaborative and creative approaches.

This book expands upon current design knowledge, focussing on the application of design thinking to large scaled complex systems, at the leading edge of cross sector and public value innovation.While the subject matter is specific to the design industry, the language and concepts are applicable and accessible to a broad audience.

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The world we live in is increasingly complex. It throws up complex problems. This book is about tackling them.

At ThinkPlace, we’ve pioneered the application of design thinking to complex challenges like climate change, family violence and global malnutrition. We work globally with governments, organisations and communities using a methodology – the Design System™ outlined in this book – that has been developed over more than a decade.

We bring together different voices and help them to create better futures. If you’re one of those voices, or would like to be, this book is for you. It’s part roadmap, part instruction manual, but mostly it’s a clarion call for a new way of doing things: tackling the world’s biggest problems in a way that brings people together and produces positive, lasting change.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138059801

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 786g

Pages: 266

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Innovation & Creativity Business Leadership & Management Company Culture & Human Resources John Body Nina Terrey Non-Fiction Technology & Digital Transformation in Business

About the Author

John Body is the Founding Partner of ThinkPlace, a strategic design consultancy with international leadership applying design thinking and innovation to the areas that matter most: social cohesion, economic prosperity and environmental sustainability. John continues to pioneer and grow this field, at first leading the application of design in the Australian taxation system from 2000 to 2004. Today ThinkPlace applies design and innovation to projects as diverse as healthcare in Ghana, regulation in Australia, financial inclusion in Kenya, transport in Singapore, renewable energy in Australia, homelessness in New Zealand, Indigenous conditions in the US and revenue collection in New Zealand. ThinkPlace works on challenges that matter to the whole community, economy and environment.

Dr Nina Terrey is Partner and Global Practice Lead of ThinkPlace. Nina is a leading innovation co-design expert and practitioner. Her work focuses on how to solve public problems by taking a co-design approach and empowering people to co-create better solutions. Nina consults and advises governments and other organisations on design and innovation combining research and co-design methods to solve complex issues. Nina has over 20 years working across complex systems such as regulation, national security, health, immigration, manufacturing, human services, energy, taxation, and transport. Nina’s experience extends across multiple markets - Australia, New Zealand and Asia which means she brings a global appreciation to challenges and practical solutions.