Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability: (Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability)

Designers provide creative solutions for user problems and identify the needs of users in a given environment. However, it is often difficult to understand the social design of a product or service. Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability is a critical scholarly resource that provides groundbreaking research on social contributions to design. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as rural sustainability, ecological farmhouse designs, and community public spaces, this book is geared towards architects, designers, program planners, entrepreneurs, and engineers seeking information about design for resolving social issues.

About the Author :
Kin Wai Michael Siu is Eric C. Yim Professor in Inclusive Design and Chair Professor of Public Design, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is Founder and Leader of Public Design Lab. He is Leader of Research Group for Sustainable Public Design of RISUD. He supervises PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. He is fellow of numerous professional engineering and design organisations. He has been invited by a number of universities as visiting professor and scholar, including the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Fulbright Scholar), National University of Singapore (ASIA Fellow), UC Berkeley, and Tsinghua University. His research areas are in public design, user reception, user centered design, inclusive and universal design, FlexiDesign®, design and engineering education. Based on Vygotsky’s ZPD concept and Bruner’s scaffolding theory, he introduced the concept of Scaffolding Innovation for design learning. He is editorial and advisory member of numerous journals. He has been appointed to serve as a member of research grant bodies and accreditation councils. He solely owns over 50 US and international patents and design registrations, and over 60 international invention and design grand awards. He has published over 300 research papers in top-tier academic journals. Yi Lin Wong is Research Fellow, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As a design educator and researcher, she has conducted numbers of design workshops across different educational levels, and participated in various qualitative and quantitative design research. She has actively involved in social design projects to promote social and cultural sustainability through creative and innovative design methods. Her research focuses on social design, inclusive design, participatory design, sign design, creativity and design education. Based on different frameworks of design and creative thinking processes, she suggested a creative design process to explain the role of creative thinking involved in design process. The understanding of the creative design process is specifically beneficial for design students and designers in social design as well as other design disciplines.