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Better by Design
RSA Journal, August 2005, Volume CLII, No 5518 Acrobat facsimile of this article
Design used to be associated purely with aesthetics. Today it has been embraced by business leaders and is advocated for social policy development. Nico Macdonald investigates these claims.

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[Please see notes on the Creative Business: Design or Die! panel, which were incorrectly cited in the CCB Grow! newsletter (my mistake).]

Read ‘Better by Design’ on the RSA Journal site. It is also published in print. Copies can be picked up at the RSA in London. The piece is categorised under Fostering Resilient Communities, one of the RSA’s five manifesto challenges.

If you would like to respond to this piece, please add a comment to the post on my Design and Society journal. You can also write to the Journal, via the editor, which publishes letters online as well as in print.

You can find Weblogs that link to the piece, via Technorati. I would also expect to see some online debate in the RSA’s Fostering Resilient Communities forum.

For the piece I interviewed:
Sean Blair, Spirit of Creation
Chris Downs, Live|work
Richard Eisermann, Director – Design & Innovation, Design Council
Shelley Evenson, Associate Professor, Interaction Design, Carnegie Mellon University,School of Design
Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Garrick Jones, The LUDIC Group
Kevin McCullagh, Plan Strategic Ltd
Gill Wildman, Plot
James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation, De Montfort University
John Zapolski, Management Innovation Group

 

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