Not Your Usual Design? Re-Orienting Policies, Organisations and Services around People and Planet
Once again, we find
ourselves in an era where many pillars that framed our thinking and doing in
the past are being challenged and questioned on a daily basis. Professor Sabine Junginger's inaugural
lecture is an invitation to designers, managers, scholars, researchers, and students
to examine the role, place, and contribution of design to business, the public
sector, and society in times of commotion and disruption.
When people start to
focus on laying new foundations for economic and social innovation -
foundations that account for the needs of society, the individual, and the
planet - design moves centre stage. It is no coincidence that the German
Bauhaus offered rigorous design education among the uncertainties of the Weimar
Republic, nor that the Ulm School of Design forged new possibilities for the
future in the aftermath of the German Nazi regime.
When nothing seems quite
what it was and when the status quo is no longer tenable, the ways in which we
conceive, plan, develop, and deliver new paths forward into the unknown acquire
new significance. In a captivating talk, Professor Junginger will show how human-centred design principles,
methods, and processes can support researchers and practitioners across the
disciplines in their efforts to transform systems around people and planet.
About the Speaker
Professor
Sabine Junginger’s work sheds light on how human-centered design contributes
to social change and business innovation by re-orienting policies,
organizations and services around people.
She
is especially curious about policy work and believes no policy can succeed in
the absence of appropriate products and services that people can understand
and use.
Her
research focus is on organizational change and transformation, design in
government, public sector innovation, design for policy, design thinking,
design leadership, design management, service design, interaction design.
Through her international and interdisciplinary research collaborations she
hopes to become part of the solution when sincere people seek novel solutions
to complex problems of business and society.
