Mazzarella, F. et al. (2017). Crafting Sustainable Futures.pdf (2.28 MB)
Crafting sustainable futures. The value of the service designer in activating meaningful social innovation from within textile artisan communities
journal contribution
posted on 2017-09-19, 08:13 authored by Francesco Mazzarella, Val MitchellVal Mitchell, Carolina Escobar-TelloIn order to tackle complex sustainability challenges, top-down one-size-fits-all services and strategies do not always effectively address the needs of local communities. It is increasingly recognised that multi-disciplinary stakeholders need to draw on their local situated knowledge and cooperate towards achieving a social aim. With this in mind, and moving beyond the designer’s ‘parachuting’ into projects that do not grow or develop, this paper explores how the service designer can contribute to activate meaningful routes for the transition of textile artisans’ communities towards sustainable futures. This paper proposes a service design framework for understanding local contexts, making sense of visions for the future and reframing them into meaningful actionable realities. For the purpose of this paper, the theory is here presented through its application to a community of Nottingham lace artisans, chosen as unit of analysis for this participatory case study research.
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School
- Design
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The Design JournalVolume
20Issue
sup1Pages
S2935 - S2950Citation
MAZZARELLA, F., MITCHELL, V. and ESCOBAR-TELLO, C., 2017. Crafting sustainable futures. The value of the service designer in activating meaningful social innovation from within textile artisan communities. The Design Journal, 20 (sup1), pp. S2935-S2950.Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)Version
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2017-09-06Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Taylor and Francis under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ISSN
1460-6925Publisher version
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- en