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Social Design: From Speculative Practices to a Sustainable Future

This article explores contemporary social design as a critically important tool for integrating technological innovations and social practices with the aim of addressing complex social challenges.

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Key Strategies of Social Design

The article proposes a typology of social design strategies, identifying three key approaches: local solutions to global challenges, improving quality of life, and ensuring social sustainability. Examined projects illustrate shared characteristics critical for achieving positive change and transforming social systems, such as co-design with stakeholders and consideration of the local context.

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Social Design as an Umbrella Term: Definition and Its Key Characteristics

The article explores the concept of social design, its various definitions and basic characteristics. The author argues that social design is an umbrella term for a number of socially-oriented design practices, based on practical common tools. The article describes the distinctive features of social design, reflecting its humanistic valuesdriven origin.

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Accessibility and Expansion of Narrative Space: Convergent Technologies and Semiotics of Exhibitions in an Art Museum

This paper explores this topic from the perspective of one class of such technologies: augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR), which are currently used primarily to develop applications that visually expand physical spaces and help compensate for the resulting inequality in access to works of art.

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Social Design as a Tool of Life-Construction Practice

This paper explores how social design methodologies can be applied to life-construction practices, helping individuals and communities build more meaningful and sustainable lifestyles through participatory design approaches.

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New Rules and Standards: Social Design in a Crisis

Examines how social design principles can be adapted to address the unique challenges presented by crisis situations, with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on urban living and community resilience.

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Systems Thinking: The New Stage in Social Design Theory and Practice

Investigates the integration of systems thinking into social design practices, demonstrating how this holistic approach can lead to more effective and sustainable solutions for complex social problems.

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Theory and Practice of Collaborative Innovations' Design

Explores methodologies for designing collaborative innovation processes, with case studies demonstrating how participatory design can foster creativity and problem-solving in diverse organizational contexts.

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Human-Centered Approach in ICT Design

Examines the principles and practices of human-centered design in the development of information and communication technologies, emphasizing the importance of user needs and experiences in creating effective digital solutions.

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