Economy as a transforming practice: design theory and practice for redesigning our economies to support alternative futures

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Abstract

Addressing economic challenges through designers’ glasses is a practice that is gathering traction. We postulate to radically rethink our economies and start looking at them as a transforming practice to reshape our future. With this essay we propose to approach economics and economies as a design theory and practice, not to replace economics, but to offer an action-oriented design approach to economies and economics. Design thinking found its way into the business world well over 15 years ago. By treating economies as a transforming practice, we are making the next step, offering design as an action-oriented co-development approach to address societal challenges in a systemic way, based on complexity, responsibility and situatedness. In this chapter, we share how we, as design researchers, see how economies could be approached as transforming practices.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThrive:
Subtitle of host publicationfundamentals for a new economy
EditorsKees Klomp, Shinta Oosterwaal
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherBusiness Contact
Pages96-121
ISBN (Print)9789047014751
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • Transforming Practice
  • economy
  • alternative futures
  • design
  • paradigm shift
  • transformation
  • complexity
  • situatedness
  • aesthetics
  • co-response-ability
  • co-development

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