This book explores how design shapes and is shaped by communities across diverse physical and digital, urban and rural, local and transnational contexts. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the world, it investigates how design fosters interaction, identity, and belonging. From grassroots initiatives to global networks, COMMUNITY (&) DESIGN examines design for, in, and by communities, revealing how shared spaces, tools, and practices shape collective life – and how communities, in turn, design their own worlds. Crossing disciplines and geographies, it offers fresh insights into how design redefines what community can mean today.
“The book serves as a global handbook for designing with communities. This is the first reading when your focal points are design and communities.”
Satu Miettinen, Professor of Service Design, University of Lapland
“Strong collections like this make clear that Social Design is now well beyond the ‘good intentions’ Ivan Illich criticised. Each chapter demonstrates that you need a creative critical framework to evaluate your designing in relation to communities.”
Cameron Tonkinwise, Professor of Design Studies, University of Technology Sydney
“This book demonstrates just how important the lived experiences of designing, enabling and sustaining communities are. Through a rich array of perspectives the authors illustrate how design has the potential to help communities thrive. It is a manual for transformation.”
Craig Martin, Personal Chair of Interdisciplinary Design Studies, The University of Edinburgh