Resources

Knowledge sharing is a key value of the Network. In this section you will find various publications, projects’ outcomes and teaching materials produced by SDN members and by people who inspire us.

Social Design Network’s members are actively contributing to the ongoing development of social design through research, practice and education across diverse contexts.Their work engages questions of justice, care, participation, ethics and social transformation.

By sharing publications, project outcomes and teaching materials, the Network brings together knowledge emerging from interdisciplinary collaboration with communities, institutions and other partners. These resources support critical reflection on how design can address complex social challenges and contribute to more just, inclusive and sustainable futures.
The Social Design Network offers a platform for collective learning and inspiration through the work of researchers, practitioners and educators from different fields and locations.

• Design for Health: Human-Centered Design Looks to the Future Tracy Johnson, Shilpa Das, Nikky Tyler
• Designing for Logic Hybridity in New Service Development: A Case of the Estonian Youth Mental Health Systems Eva Liisa Kubinyi, Meghan Lazier, Maarja Motus, Josina Vink
• Exploring Conditions for Community Care in one Neighborhood Eva Liisa Kubinyi, Meghan Lazier, Maarja Mõtus, Josina Vink
• Improving the reporting of health research involving design: a proposed guideline Alessandra N Bazzano, Shirley D Yan, Jane Martin, Emma Mulhern, Eleanor Brown, Anne LaFond, Ledia Andrawes, Tracy Pilar Johnson, Shilpa Das
• Participatory Design in Mental Health Paola Pierri

• Blur m3 not Matteo Moretti
• Data and Democracy Matteo Moretti, Maurizio Teli, Antonella De Angeli
• People’s Republic of Bolzano or how digital artifacts can be adversarial to misinformation Matteo Moretti, Maurizio Teli, Antonella De Angeli
• Procedural artifacts for design inquiry Jennifer Schubert, Secil Ugur Yavuz, Alastair Fuad-Luke

• Design (&) Activism – Perspectives on Design as Activism and Activism as Design Tom Bieling
• Disability in Ancient Indian Art and Aesthetic Theory: The Case of Bibhatsa and Bhayanaka Rasas Edited By Keri Watson, Timothy W. Hiles,  Shilpa Das

• Design anthropology or anthropological design? Towards ‘Social Design’ Intimacy and integrity framework Jonathan Ventura
• Disability in Ancient Indian Art and Aesthetic Theory: The Case of Bibhatsa and Bhayanaka Rasas Edited By Keri Watson, Timothy W. Hiles,  Shilpa Das
• Introduction to Design Theory – Philosophy, Critique, History and Practice Michalle Gal, Jonathan Ventura

• Peer Research and democratising knowledge Paola Pierri
• Re-Designing social services for people in transition Jennifer Schubert, Alvise Matozzi
• Towards Participatory Transition Governance Paola Pierri
• Walls, enclaves and the (counter) politics of design Jonathan Ventura

• AI research assistants, intrinsic values, and the science we want Ariel Guersenzvaig, Javier Sánchez-Monedero
• Can machine learning make naturalism about health truly naturalistic? Ariel Guersenzvaig
• CITIZENS, TECHNOLOGIES & POWER – A UNIQUE PARTICIPATORY DESIGN CHALLENGE Jennifer Schubert, Bianca Herlo

• GENCOM: Gendered Commutes in Ankara: Women’s Experiences, Strategies and Implications for the Design of Public Transport Pinar Kaygan
• Gender (&) Design – Positionen Zur Vergeschlechtlichung in Gestaltungskulturen Tom Bieling
• Gendered interactions mediated by design: Sexual harassment on public transport Pinar Kaygan, Harun Kaygan, Asuman Özgür Keysan
• Mapping Diversity The Memory Street Names Celebrate Matteo Moretti

• Change Agents – Blueprints of Interinstitutional Collaborations in Social Design Bori Fehér, Guim Espelt Estopà, Ariel Guersenzvaig, Bianca Herlo, Erzsébet Hosszu, Eva Liisa Kubinyi, Meitar Lubotzky-Avior, Ruth-Helene Melioranski, Teresa Palmieri, Rita Szerencsés, Jonathan Ventura, Borbála Marosán, Nara Capdeville
• Cloudfactory – a social design abc Bori Fehér
• Design for Life: Moholy-Nagy’s Holistic Blueprint for Social Design Pedagogy and Practice Lee Davis, Bori Fehér
• Involving craft know-how and traditions in design education: Cases of Switzerland, Turkey and India Bettina Minder, Özlem Er, Shilpa Dash
• With participation to a need-centered design for schools Jennifer Schubert

• Back to the Future of Public Space: Postcards from 2020 Cecilia De Marinis
• Building transformation capacity through arts and design: unlocking the full potential for urban transitions Pinar Kaygan
• Disability and Public Spaces: Universal Design Approaches Shilpa Das
• Intensity as the Perceivable Dimension of Density in the Urban Environment: The Case of Housing Blocks by MBM Arquitectes in Barcelona, Spain Cecilia De Marinis
• Listening to Unheard Voices in Urban Public Space. The Cases of Ruskin Square and Plaça d’en Baró Dorotea Ottaviani, Cecilia De Marinis
• New Urban Choreographies. Cohabiting public space in the time of a pandemic Cecilia De Marinis
• Replacement, Displacement: Materiality of Cardboard on the street Hatice Kesdi, Harun Kaygan

• Design as self-enactment Ariel Guersenzvaig, Jonathan Ventura
• Design practice, professional responsibility, and self-enactment Jonathan Ventura
• DESIGNABILITIES Tom Bieling
• The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers Ariel Guersenzvaig

• Cultural ecosystem of Latvia as a resource for the resilience and sustainability of the country Glocal Climate Change Pinar Kaygan

• Co-creation of the Mobile Youth Center Concept in Toila Municipality Eva Liisa Kubinyi
• Practice in a Box Cecilia De Marinis
• Social Design Hub at MOME Budapest Bori Fehér, Janka Csernák, Rita Szerencsés, Erzsébet Hosszú
• Socially Oriented Action Research in Design Practice Jonathan Ventura
• Specology – Zu einer ästhetischen Forschung Tom Bieling