Design for Systemic Change: Towards a Design Society - Christian Bason, Danish Design Center

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DESIGNING FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE: TOWARDS A DESIGN SOCIETY 1 Christian Bason CEO, Danish Design Centre

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DESIGNING FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE: TOWARDS A DESIGN SOCIETY

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Christian Bason CEO, Danish Design Centre

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Can design (continue to) be part of the story?

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CHANGING DESIGN & CONTEXT

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SOMETHING’S GOING ON IN THE WORLD.

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SOMETHING’S GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF DESIGN.

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DIFFUSION?

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Expert design vs Diffuse’ design  

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CONSOLIDATION?

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LUNAR ADAPTIVE PATH DESIGNIT

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MCKINSEY & CO CAPITAL ONE WIPRO

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EXPANSION?

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SPLINTERING?

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Craft vs Mass production? ’Heroic’ designer vs Co-designer? Product design vs Service design? Growth vs Social change?

The splintering of design

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As design is rapidly transforming, what are the ways in which design practice create value for businesses & society?

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CHANGING… DESIGN POLICY DESIGN LEADERSHIP 15

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CHANGING DESIGN POLICY

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MACRO DESIGN DESIGN FOR POLICY AN APPROACH TO USER-CENTRED CREATION OF PUBLIC OUTCOMES

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HOW MIGHT WE ACCELERATE THE VALUABLE USE OF DESIGN IN BUSINESS?

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DDC WANTS TO MAKE DESIGN A TOP COMPETITIVE FACTOR IN DANISH BUSINESSES TODAY ONLY 15 PCT USE DESIGN STRATEGICALLY*

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*EU  Commission  2015  

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DESIGN SQUARED CAN WE CATALYSE DESIGN – BY DESIGN?

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THE GROWTH JOURNEY

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EXPERIMENT WHAT DON’T WE KNOW ABOUT DESIGN? -> Engage businesses and designers to find out

Source:  1508  

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LEARN HOW DOES DESIGN CREATE VALUE, NOW? -> Observe design practice in action

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SHARE GIVE EVERYONE ACCESS TO NEW INSIGHTS -> Platforms for catalysing learning for change

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PROTOTYPE

ExperimentLearnShare

PROGRAM

SKALA

DDC’S PLATFORMS

PROTOTYPE

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PROTOTYPE

ExperimentLearnShare

LearnExperimentShare

PROGRAMME

SKALA

DDC’S PLATFORMS

PROGRAMME

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PROTOTYPE

ExperimentLearnShare

LearnExperimentShare

ShareLearnExperimentPROGRAMME

SCALE

DDC’S PLATFORMS

SCALE

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CHANGING DESIGN LEADERSHIP

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MICRO DESIGN SHAPING THE FUTURE DESIGN LEADERSHIP AS AN INNOVATION TOOL

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32 DESIGN  AS  FUTURE-­‐MAKING   DESIGN  AS  DECISION-­‐MAKING  

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“A design attitude views each project as an opportunity for invention that includes a questioning of basic assumptions and a resolve to leave the world a better place than we found it.”

Boland & Collopy (2004)

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From ”Which decision should I make?” To “What should I make a decision about?”

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What is the problem/ opportunity space? What could be a better future situation? How might we expand our range of options to decide about?

Design attitude Decision attitude (”designing”) (”managing”)

What is the decision space? What is the current or past situation? Which decision should I make?

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What happens between designers and managers?

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Or, what can managers do to make designers succesful?

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EXPLORING THE PROBLEM

SPACE

GENERATING ALTERNATIVE

SCENARIOS ENACTING NEW

PRACTICES

#1 Challenging assumptions

#2 Leveraging

empathy

#3 Stewarding divergence

#4 Navigating

the unknown

#6 Insisting on

value- creation

#5 Making the

future concrete

6 DESIGN ENGAGEMENTS

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EXPLORING THE PROBLEM SPACE

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Source:  DDC  

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”It was an eye-opener”.

#1 CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS

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”Sometimes you have to make a choice. Users first, or employees first?”

#2 LEVERAGING EMPATHY

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GENERARING ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS

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”The art of aligning decisions with impact when many minds are involved in making a plan and many hands in enacting it.”

#3 STEWARDING DIVERGENCE

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”It’s a loss of control, but it is a positive loss of control.”

#4 NAVIGATING THE UNKNOWN

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Source:  1508  

ENACTING NEW PRACTICES

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”My staff don’t question the insights from the design project; they question the consequences for our organisation”.

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”What else could be really crazy?”

#5 MAKING THE FUTURE CONCRETE

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Source: Izone

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”I want everybody to win.”

#6 INSISTING ON VALUE

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Christian Bason [email protected] Twitter @christianbason

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