Conference article

The article explores the territory of Service design for social innovation. More specifically, it discusses Service Design as a design approach that may facilitate social change, when it creates conditions (enabling systems) that promote social innovation. The theme of aging exemplifies a social issue that can be addressed through the design for services towards active aging. As methodology, this study is based on a literature review of key definitions in Service design for social innovation and active aging, as well as on a case study divided in two parts: a design exploration with undergraduate students under the proposed approach and a description of an actual service model that validates it. As results, the article provides evidences of a social approach to Service Design, based on the creation of socially innovative services towards active aging, designed to rely on older people as active protagonists of their own well-being provision.

Service Design,Design for social innovation,Active aging