Open Design and Innovation: Facilitating Creativity in Everyone
- 3h 17m
- Leon Cruickshank
- Ashgate Publishing
- 2014
Open innovation, pro-sumers, disruptive design and brand fanaticism are amongst a handful of new approaches to design and innovation that have generated discussion and media coverage in recent years. In practice, these ideas often excite more than providing pragmatic strategies. Open Design and Innovation develops the argument for a more nuanced acknowledgement and facilitation of 'non-professional' forms of creativity; drawing on lessons from commercial design practice; theoretical analysis and a wider understanding of innovation.Specifically this book examines: innovation and design, mass creativity reality and myth, the future of design (practice and profession), through a series of case studies of new approaches to open design practices. The text draws on academic research, practical experience of the author in delivering open design projects and first hand interviews with leaders in the fields.The author challenges the notion of the designer as 'fountain-head' of innovation and, equally, the idea of 'user creativity' as a replacement for traditional design and innovation. The book offers a critique of the hype surrounding some of the emerging phenomena and a framework to help understand the emerging relationship between citizens and designers.
About the Author
Leon Cruickshank is a Senior Lecturer in ImaginationLancaster, the design research laboratory at Lancaster University. He has been researching new relationships between designers and non-designers for the last 20 years. This has included leading a range of research and engagement projects as diverse as citizen-led innovation, Interactive TV and Creativity in SMEs.
In this Book
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Open Design and Innovation─Facilitating Creativity in Everyone
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Introduction to Open Design
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Innovation and Design in Context
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Mass Creativity─Design Beyond the Design Profession
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Design Responses to Mass Creativity
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Open Design Futures
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Introduction to Case Studies
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The Future for Open Designers
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