1st Edition

Entanglements of Designing Social Innovation in the Asia-Pacific

Edited By Yoko Akama, Joyce Yee Copyright 2024
236 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Rooted in the places, cultures, histories, and wisdom of the diverse Asia-Pacific region, this book gathers heterogeneous practices of designing social innovation that address various social, political, and environmental challenges. In contrast to dominant notions of design from the Global North that evolved through industrialisation and modernist thinking, the examples in this book speak to... Read more

1. Introduction: Inter-related worldviews of designing social innovation

Yoko Akama and Joyce Yee

Section 1

2. Teu le vā: “Nurture the space in-between” when Designing with Communities

Marion Muliaumaseali’i and Yoko Akama

3. Inter-generational care of ecologies through social learning

Fadzilah Majid Cooke, Joyce Yee and Yoko Akama

4Place-based Citizen Science as a Heartware approach to build shared values and capacity for watershed management

Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad

5. Rescripting The Absurd in Indonesia

Victoria Gerrard and Prananda Luffiansyah Malasan

Section 2

 6. Infrastructuring resilience for sustaining ecosystems: a story from Chikugo, Japan

Yoko Akama et al.

7. Calling on “aunties” and “nieces”: Empowering women in creative sectors in Southeast Asia through designing mentorship

Joyce Yee, Khemmiga Teerapong, and Yoko Akama

8. Dynamics of power & participation: lessons from Cambodia and Thailand

Isaac Lyne and Istvan Rado

9Relationships matter: the role of family-like bonds and interdependency in designing social innovation practices

Khemmiga Teerapon et al. 

Section 3 

10. Tikanga-led design: Whānau-led Innovation for System Transformation

Angie Tangaere and Penny Hagen

11. Design tools for the pluriverse: proposals for designing public services

Paula Hardie and Bec Barnett

12. Examining design orientations through Indigenous Filipino strengths perspective

Kristoffer Santos

 13. Reflections on the role of participants and practitioners in situating participatory design practices

Klaus Oberbauer and Will Scott-Kemmis

14. Uncovering tracks: Towards conscious, embodied international development practice in the Pacific

Amy Green

15. Learning to see oneself, in community: An inquiry into what makes collaborative design come alive within a community in Myanmar

Rochelle Ardesher

 

 

Biography

Yoko Akama is Associate Professor at RMIT University, School of Design, Australia.

Joyce Yee is Professor at Northumbria University, School of Design, United Kingdom.