MUSTS Colloquium: ‘Design, for a Change?’ on 3 February

MUSTS Colloquium: Design, for a Change?
Guest speaker: John Grin, University of Amsterdam

When: Wednesday 3 February 2016, 15.30 – 17.00
Where: Attic, Soiron building, Grote Gracht 80-82

Abstract:
Can design change society? was the provoking title of a symposium organized by Projekt Bauhaus in Berlin, September 2015. I contributed to the opening session with a lecture on design for system innovations and transitions. My colloquium will be a next version of my lecture, including what I learnt from presentations and discussions in subsequent sessions.
I will start with a key question: the relation, during system innovations, between design on the one hand, and powering and legitimizing on the other. Against that background, I will discuss what design may contribute to methods that have been proposed for developing system innovations through visioning, learning in experiments and scaling up such experiments. Examples will range from Daan Roosegaarde’s dance floor to Roundel stables for egg production and video-screens for e-care to mentally challenged people.

Bio:
John Grin (MSc in physics, 1986; PhD in technology assessment, 1990) is a full professor of ´policy science, especially system innovation´ at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, and co-director of the Programme Transnational Configurations, Conflicts and Governance, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). With Johan Schot and Jan Rotmans he founded and directed the Dutch Knowledge Network on System Innovations (KSI). His research interests include methods for interactive technology assessment, vision assessment and reflexive design; and the governance of societal change.

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