Co-production_catalogue. Design Council Keeping connected tools and methods for developing services. Co production - a manifesto for growing the core economy. Makingthingshappen. Document library - www.desis-clusters.org. Designcommissionreport-restartingbritain2-designpublicservices. SOCIAL-INNOVATION-AND-NEW-INDUSTRIAL-CONTEXTS-CAN-DESIGNERS-“INDUSTRIALIZE”-SOCIALLY-RESPONSIBLE-SOLUTION. The Beveridge vision. At this point let us examine the idea of the ‘five giants’ (Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness).
Beveridge, remember, was not just writing about income protection; he had a vision of social reconstruction and social progress. The five giants represented the key areas of need for all of us – the areas where we should pool resources to tackle our needs collectively (see the box below). Beveridge's five giants Fiona Williams (1989) has argued that there were two more giants on the road to social progress that Beveridge did not notice. She labelled them, in words which are familiar to us but which would have been quite foreign to Beveridge and his contemporaries, the giants of Sexism and Racism. ‘When Beveridge announced his attack on the five giants – Want, Squalor, Idleness, Ignorance and Disease – he hid the giants of Racism and Sexism, and the fights against them, behind statues to the Nation and the White Family.’ (Williams, 1989, p. 162) 5 giants. Robert Putnam, social capital and civic community.
Contents: introduction · life · the civic community · social capital · civic involvement – the Bowling Alone phenomenon ·social capital and social change · conclusion: putnam and informal education · further reading and references · links · how to cite this article Robert D Putnam (1941- ) has made some influential friends in recent years.
He has been the focus of seminars hosted by Bill Clinton at Camp David and Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street. His ideas have popped up in speeches by George W. Bush and William Hague. The decline of civil engagement in the USA over the last 30 years or so, which he charted in Bowling Alone (2000), has worried a number of politicians and commentators.
Life Born and raised in Port Clinton, Ohio, Robert Putnam is one of a long series of writers on community and civic participation that comes from a small town (John Dewey is a another famous example). I went to Swarthmore College as a physics major. Taylorhaig_designthinkingandthebigsociety. Design Thinking for Social Innovation. Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products.
Recently, they have begun using design techniques to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. Businesses were the first to embrace this new approach—called design thinking—and nonprofits are beginning to adopt it too. In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from her home.
She uses a 3-gallon plastic container that she can easily carry on her head. Shanti and her husband rely on the free water for their drinking and washing, and though they’ve heard that it’s not as safe as water from the Naandi Foundation-run community treatment plant, they still use it. Shanti has many reasons not to use the water from the Naandi treatment center, but they’re not the reasons one might think. Ideation. The Open Book of Social Innovation. This report is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times.
Key findings: Social innovation has moved centre stage over the last decade, as existing structures and policies have found it impossible to crack some of the most pressing issues of our times. Social innovation is distinct from other forms of innovation. As a result, it often requires its own processes, metrics, models and methods.The methods for social innovation should be a common property, and should evolve through shared learning. Chances of it being successful will increase if we can share our experiences and quickly reflect on what works and what doesn’t. Social-Design-Methods-Menu The Young foundation. Innovation scouts. INNOV0102_p145-162_mulgan.
Study-on-Social-Innovation-for-the-Bureau-of-European-Policy-Advisors-March-2010.