Social Design And Social Change

‘Design thinking’ stands for Design-Specific Cognitive activities that many designers apply during the process of their designing and outline of designing, this is what design thinking stands for and compromises of many factors. For example, design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system which includes: within architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns to name a few. Some examples of these design principles include Applied arts, Architecture, Benchmarking design, Communication design, Engineering design, Fashion design, Game design, Graphic design, Information Architecture, Industrial design, Instructional design, Interaction design, Interior design, Landscape architecture, Lighting design, Military Design , Multimedia design, Product design, Process design, Service design, Software design, Sound design, Transition Design, Urban design, Visual design and Web Design. Throughout this essay I will firstly be discussing the meaning and different aspects of social change, followed by influencing social change through design then the influence of social change on design and lastly I will be concluding this essay with my final answer to the question.

In its most simplistic and practical form the term 'social change' refers to modifications in the social behavior patterns or relations of people, communities or society. Social change is "the significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time.” A majority of the worlds population nowadays are struggling to create change; to push forth and implement social and/or environmental impacts through out the world whether it may be from social entrepreneurs to peo...

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...Bellis, p5). This substance had been contaminated and diseased by a ‘blue-green’ mold and that other bacteria’s which were neighboring this mold were being dissolved and being the curious man as he is he later discovered that this substance killed a number of ‘disease-causing bacteria’ and later named it ‘Penicillin’. (Bellis, p5) Many years after the discovery of penicillin it became one of the worlds greatest discoveries, as it was now able to fight and kill many diseases and illnesses through the design of this substance, which created a great social change due to this discovery.

Furthermore, as society changes, being both driver and recipient of design thinking, changing scenarios and social conditions influences the designs at various levels. Also these designs only lead for a positive or negative social and behavioral change which impacts society.

Aya Zahoui