Social Design Methods Menu

• Manual: Social Design Methods Menu. Lucy Kimbell et al.

URL = http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff/Fieldstudio_SocialDesignMethodsMenu.pdf

Description

"This PDF is a resource for social innovators and entrepreneurs who want to use approaches based in design and ethnography at the early stage of creating new services, projects and ventures. It contains 11 methods including adaptable templates which use a combination of approaches from design, management and the social sciences, along with an overview of how and when to use them.

The methods have been iterated in the field in particular through Lucy's MBA class in Designing Better Futures at Said Business School, University of Oxford, as well as through introducing them to social innovators and entrepreneurs including through work at The Young Foundation during 2012.

Sharing this menu is an intervention into current debates about the extent to which toolkits can really help communicate practices based in design and ethnography and make them available to non-specialists. Other recent toolkits and resources to support design and innovation include Frog Design’s Collective Action Toolkit, and NESTA’sPrototyping Framework, and IDEO’s Human Centred Design Toolkit, as well as other resources which focus more on products such as the d-school’s Bootcamp Bootleg. The idea behind this publication is that a toolkit probably can’t do much on its own, without new behaviours, cognitive frameworks and new values, and an attention to leadership and collective action."