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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806124303321

Autore

Cruickshank Leon

Titolo

Open design and innovation : facilitating design for everyone / / Leon Cruickshank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, [Vermont] : , : Gower Publishing Limited, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-59893-0

1-317-08554-X

1-317-08553-1

1-4094-4855-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

658.3/14

Soggetti

Creative ability

Democratization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 7 The Future for Open Designers; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Open Design in Context; 1 Introduction to Open Design; 2 Innovation and Design in Context; 3 Mass Creativity: Design Beyond the Design Profession; 4 Design Responses to Mass Creativity; 5 Open Design Futures; Part 2: Open Design Case Studies; 6 Introduction to Case Studies; Case Study 1: The .NET Gadgeteer: Open Design Platform ; Case Study 2: La Region 27 and the Open Design of Public Services; Case Study 3: Silver=Gold: Professional Designers Working in Open Creative Processes

Case Study 4: Educating Open Designers Case Study 5: PROUD: Beyond the Castle: Open Designers in Action; Part 3: The Future; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.The book offers a critique of the hype surrounding some of the