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The Strategic Role of Design in Supporting Knowledge Exchange

Jennifer Ballie
Design in Action, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

Suzanne Prior
Design in Action, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

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Ingår i: ServDes.2014 Service Future; Proceedings of the fourth Service Design and Service Innovation Conference; Lancaster University; United Kingdom; 9-11 April 2014

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 99:48, s. 446-450

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Publicerad: 2014-06-25

ISBN: 978-91-7519-280-2

ISSN: 1650-3686 (tryckt), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Within the last decade design has had a strategic role in tackling escalating environmental; social and economic problems. Through design thinking; creative methods have been applied to problem solving in a process of collaboration and designers working in new territories and knowledge domains. As the designer has moved further afield the method of Knowledge Exchange (KE) has become more recognised as a democratic approach to collaboration with the ethos that everyone has something creative and productive to offer. This paper provides reflections on early stage findings from a strategic design innovation process in which collaborative partnerships between academics; SMEs and designers emerged through KE and suggests that there is value to be had from using design strategically for not only those from a business or academic background but also for those from the design community and points to a need for more training for designers from all disciplines in how to use design strategically.

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design thinking; knowledge exchange; collaboration

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