identifier,author,title,date,source,publisher,language,doi,url,abstract,file
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/103,"Mollel-Matodzi, Nailejileji; Mastamet Mason, Anne",South African fashion design entrepreneurs’ awareness and practices of sustainable fashion supply chain operations,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Spring Issue; 1-11",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/103/56,"The textile and clothing industry intensifies pollution through the production of fast fashion clothes. The increase fast-fashion clothes imports in South Africa has led to the closing of textile factories and consequently resulted in a loss of jobs. Sustainable development is the solution to reducing socio-environmental harm. Sustainable processes and products reportedly create new employment. Fashion design entrepreneurs are often involved and have influence in every supply chain of their business and are thus in one of the best positions to implement sustainable fashion supply chain operations. The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate South African fashion design entrepreneurs’ awareness and practices of sustainable fashion supply chain operations. Participants were selected purposively, and data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The results indicated that majority of the primary participants were aware of sustainable fabrics through personal research. Half of them source and produce sustainable garments on a small scale due to the high price of sustainable fabrics. All of the participants had limited knowledge on sustainable design methods. All the participants save their fabric off-cuts and only half of them is motivated by environmental concern. Furthermore, the results indicated that there is a lack of systems to manage the recycling of fabric cut-off and lack of business management skills. Given that there are few sustainable fashion design entrepreneurs in South Africa, the study recommends the textile and clothing industry leaders especially sustainability practitioners to disseminate knowledge and training across the board on sustainable supply chain operations.",discernj-103.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/108,"Nino, Laura; Alarcon , Diana; Cristancho , Dana Valentina; Yoo, Daisy",Facilitating female migrants accessing healthcare systems through smartphone apps: An Asset-based design case study translating social capital of community organizations in digital tools ,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Spring Issue; 12-26",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/108/57,"Workers of community organizations in Amsterdam and Bogota use daily smartphones for personal reasons. However, smartphone apps have been outside their organizational reach. Thus, our paper explores sociotechnical systems’ opportunities to bridge community organizations and female migrants to macrosystems such as healthcare systems. Our selected community organizations, Casa Migrante in Amsterdam and Kilombo Yumma in Bogota, were born out of serving peer migrants from Latin American and Afro-Colombian backgrounds. Their services provide support to female migrants who suffer abuse and poverty. Built on cultural practices and social structures of their own, these organizations live in the periphery of macrosystems. They struggle to be appreciated and integrated into macrosystems and digital networks. Thus, our paper unpeels the core of their services, using asset-based design, and translates their social capital into sociotechnical systems such as smartphone apps. This with the intention to reveal, consolidate and integrate their efforts to wider systems. ",discernj-108.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/10,"Fleischmann, Katja",Designers as change agents in the circular economy,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ; 99-118",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/10/10,"Several global reports have concluded that natural resource extraction at its current levels is unsustainable and will lead to rapid erosion of the environment and tax global economic growth. One of the alternative paradigms to conserve those resources is the Circular Economy, a system driven by innovation that extends the utility of products as long as possible through a series of strategies that re-use resources. Design can act as a bridging tool and a catalyst for the innovation demanded by the Circular Economy because of its flexibility as a problem-solving discipline. The intermediary role of design can adapt to the complex requirements of Circular Economy stakeholders who want to shift their way of doing business to a more sustainable model, despite formidable policy, economic, cultural and political obstacles. The author explores the evolution and utility of design from a discipline that shapes objects to one that constructs and facilitates complex systems of interactions among collaborators, which in the Circular Economy includes consumers, manufacturers, logistics companies, governments, business and science entrepreneurs. Several examples of design’s role in this facilitative process are presented that showcase the power of design to drive social and cultural transformations and re-cast industrial and business processes. Sustainable innovation is the centrepiece of the Circular Economy and design has a significant role to play in its adoption, particularly from a human-centred perspective that can address formidable constraints to its implementation.",discernj-10.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/111,"Cruz Megchun, Beatriz Itzel",Practices: Alternative social innovations in a rentier ,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Spring Issue; 27-43",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/111/58,"The work discusses another variant, place-making practices, of social innovation processes in a rentier state. We aim to document alternative processes that conceptualize different forms of participation and human agency. We want to provide a different discourse where it prevails in individuals’ representations of their complex system of symbols, rules, and codifications of living in the city. Thus, we provide a theoretical framework of the city under capitalism to introduce place, space, and practice later. We introduce Wachsmuth’s (2014) postulation of the city as a “category of practice” to document one representation of urban processes via alternative visualizations in the Emirate of Sharjah. We use a case study approach to record the complexity of happenings in place-making and its relation to social innovation processes. Results exhibit that social innovations and place-making /practices processes encompass collective and collaborative actions of a specific social group toward satisfying a social need. However, the latter differs in the intentions, actions, and outcomes, as individuals concentrate on intervening places to deal with their longing for home while creating a sense of belonging through a series of rituals in an urban context. This work provides an opportunity to advance the understanding of social innovations in other contexts while offering frameworks that honor immigrants’ culture and social realm and thus bring into being other worlds. Thus, we require epistemological approaches, theoretical frameworks, and dialectic character that offer an alternative to prevent exclusionary conceptualizations of participation.",discernj-111.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/114,"Papageorgiou, Eirini",Digital Job Onboarding: The Erasmus+ project for youth's digital upskilling,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Spring Issue; 44-55",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/114/59,"For many people, digital working became a reality, especially through on-the-job training during the pandemic. Students were home-schooled, and companies and offices operated in distance working. Digital skills became a key determinant in the employability of young people and dealing with these new digital job realities is assumed by potential employers. Millions of jobs requiring digital skills already exist and more will be created in the coming decade. The demand for digital skills in the workplace has never been greater. However, unemployed (young) people, school leavers in the transition to work, not embedded in a supportive institutional framework, widely missed this capacity-building opportunity. The target group is youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET), as well as other young people at risk of marginalization. This project aims to help job-seeking young people adapt to the “new normal” after COVID-19 by improving their digital skills.",discernj-114.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/118,"Parrilli, Davide Maria; Hernández-Ramírez, Rodrigo",Building preferred futures for human privacy through service design,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Autumn Issue; 1-13",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/118/62,"Designers are increasingly confronted with challenges that have a wide social and political impact. In particular, we identify threats to people’s informational privacy as a worrying challenge for human beings. Scholars concerned with surveillance capitalism and society denounce that the massive extrapolation and use of people’s information leads to its commodification and jeopardizes the possibility for ‘data subjects’ to be really free and autonomous in their choices. According to commonly accepted paradigms of design ethics, designers are now called upon to tackle macro-issues with broad relevance for entire communities. Hence data privacy should be a concern for design and designers. Among design disciplines and practices, we identify service design as the practice that should naturally be more concerned with privacy for its focus on interactions, and because contemporary services necessarily involve the collection and processing of people’s data. This paper assesses the role of service designers in identifying preferred futures for privacy and designing accordingly. Building on a multidisciplinary literature review, the paper addresses an existing gap in service design. Moving from servitization scenarios, the paper creates a vital link between service design and informational privacy as a universal human idea. Expanding on contributions from ethics traditions and approaches, the paper sets the foundations of privacy ethics for service design. Within this framework, finally, this work discusses how service designers should define preferred futures for privacy and lead the creative process of designing ethically-minded solutions for privacy. ",discernj-118.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/119,"Pillar, Claire",Book review: Design for social innovation: Case studies from around the world,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Spring Issue; 56-58",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/119/60,"Featuring 45 case studies from 6 continents, this book is a snapshot of design for social innovation. An extensive introduction from the editors considers the boundaries and difficulties in projects based on design for social innovation: “With countless pilot projects, startups, and labs that have come and gone, the question is how the sustainability of design for social innovation practices can be enhanced. If that’s a question you care about, this book is for you”, they note.",discernj-119.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/120,none,Reviewer Acknowledgements,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Spring Issue",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/120/61,"Reviewer Acknowledgements for Discern: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 4, No. 1",discernj-120.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/127,"Chipambwa, Walter; Dekesa, Kelvin; Mabuto, Josiline",The designer as an agent for promoting sustainability in the creative industries in Zimbabwe,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Autumn Issue; 14-22",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/127/63,"The scope of this study was to engage the designer to evaluate the extent to which they act as agents of change towards achieving a greener world as their products have a significant bearing on how the communities consume products or services. The study provided an audit of how the three key pillars of sustainability namely economic, environmental, and social are promoted in the creative industries in Zimbabwe. Five distinct areas in the creative industries were selected for this study and these were fashion design, interior design, product design, graphic design, and multimedia design. A total of five in-depth interviews were conducted in each sector where the design agent was purposively sampled from. The informants were purposefully sampled using their present and past creative works as a key indicator for one to provide a meaningful contribution to the study. A huge gap with regards to knowledge on sustainability issues was identified amongst designers across the sectors though opportunities for improvement were also identified. The study highlights that there is a need to improve sustainability education as a concept for both designers and consumers of products or services. The study concluded that creative industries in developing economies like Zimbabwe have significant potential to contribute towards the achievement of –Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ",discernj-127.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/128,"Mathew, Neha; Mazzarella, Francesco",Up-skilling marginalised south Asian women based in the UK through a home decor social enterprise : A collaborative training framework,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Autumn Issue; 22-41",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/128/64,"The international fashion industry is heavily reliant on Asian manufacturers, and most garment workers are predominantly South Asian women who work in deplorable conditions and face abuse from their employers. Furthermore, despite the growing demand for British-made goods, the fashion and textile manufacturing industry in the UK is facing a severe shortage of skilled machinists, also due to Brexit and the increasing disinterest of young people in learning making skills. Within this context, the paper reports on a project aimed to develop and test a collaborative training framework for social enterprises aimed to upskill marginalised South Asian women and support their empowerment within the fashion and textile industry. To meet this aim, semi-structured interviews, a series of co-creation workshops, and a focus group were conducted as part of participatory action research conducted in the UK. Findings from the primary and secondary research validated the need for collaborative training programmes, while the delivery of the co-creation workshops aided in the development of a guidebook. In discussing the framework and how it can be adopted and adapted by social entrepreneurs who want to upskill marginalised South Asian women in the fashion and textile industry, the paper highlights the original contribution of the research to the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship and outlines recommendations for further work.",discernj-128.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/129,"Murray, Michael; Petrovic, Emina",A review of community and connectivity strategies for the acceleration of sustainable transitions,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Autumn Issue; 42-57",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/129/65,"Cross-disciplinary understanding of strategies for stimulating transitional change is critical, in the face of the escalating climate crisis (Newell et al., 2022). If we are to meaningfully stimulate and accelerate transitions toward more sustainable practices, we must foster community and connectivity within and across disciplines. This article presents the findings of a literature review on physical and digital community organization and connectivity strategies, articulating the potential of participation and knowledge sharing within communities to stimulate meaningful change. Eight physical, community-based strategies are reviewed and analysed, alongside four digital strategies. The selection of physical strategies conveys a range of tried-and-tested methods of stimulating change, while the review of digital strategies explores how traditional methods have been adapted into the digital age. The physical strategies reviewed include: community of practice, social entrepreneurship, community of interest, community capacity building, game changers, disruptors, intersectional activism and mass mobilization. The digital strategies reviewed include: digital mobilization, virtual community of practice, digital storytelling and digital artefacts. Middle-out approaches to change are particularly focussed upon, as they are most effective for individual actors within disciplines wishing to stimulate change (Janda &amp; Parag, 2011; Simpson et al., 2020). By bringing together into one place an analysis of a range of existing approaches, this review takes an initial step toward establishing a cross-disciplinary library of community organizing and connectivity strategies. The aspiration is that this will support the collective benefit of all disciplines seeking to accelerate sustainable, transitional change.",discernj-129.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/130,"Team, Editorial",Reviewer Acknowledgements,2023,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Autumn Issue",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/130/66,"Reviewer Acknowledgements for Discern: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 4, No. 2",discernj-130.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/144,"Chamarty, Pallavi",Kalamkari and Chintz: A post-colonial reassessment of entangled textile histories,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion; 40-53",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/144/71,"Traditionally researched craft and textile histories have often been criticised for being uncritical. Research in the field of Indian crafts has been preoccupied with object-led studies of craft techniques. The popular imagination buys into the mythologies depicted and the ‘discourse of patronage, kings, empresses, saints and a “golden” age of craft work’. This paper reassesses a similarly uncritical history of the South Indian textile craft Kalamkari by foregrounding the artisan’s perspective in this craft’s narrative. Keystone texts on Kalamkari and chintz are read critically, using a postcolonial lens to reject the academic tradition of normalising colonial encroachments on traditional knowledge and underrepresenting the artisan’s capacity for artistry and creativity. While artisans have been denied learning resources and systemically excluded from all forms of discursive place-making in cultural studies, such as in literature, galleries, museums and academia, findings from this critical reading are integrated with interview responses from contemporary Kalamkari artisans. This enables the exploration of their material and cultural mediations and attitudes towards community, labour, creativity and ownership. By studying the impact of coloniality on Indian craft and attempting to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of Kalamkari, this paper hopes to encourage more craft narratives that are critical of craft’s place as a communal, creative practice and industry within today’s global capitalist fashion system.",discernj-144.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/148,"Gumus Ciftci, Hazal; Tenagne, Tewodros; Agazhie, Temesgen; Reta, Michael",Exploring the design motifs of Wollo Gabi in Ethiopian textiles and design development of women’s fashion accessories,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion; 54-65",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/148/72,"Ethiopia, renowned for its rich tradition of craftsmanship, particularly in textiles, boasts a variety of regional styles and fabric types utilised in traditional and everyday attire. This study represented a collaborative effort between two universities, Arizona State University in the United States and Wollo University in Ethiopia, explicitly focusing on Wollo Gabi, an intricately patterned, gauze-like handwoven fabric of symbolic significance. Embarking on this endeavour were four design researchers who have explored Wollo Gabi's historical lineage, production techniques and contemporary applications. Subsequently, our endeavours evolved to encompass the conceptualisation and development of designs intending to demonstrate Gabi’s commercial potential in the US market. We employed a practice-based approach working with artisans to integrate diverse perspectives into the design process, fostering a more inclusive design process for product and brand development.",discernj-148.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/149,"Busciantella-Ricci, Daniele; Berni, Marco; Del Bono, Andrea; Duina, Rita",Sustainability culture and fashion enterprises: From creating questions to co-creating participation,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion; 66-87",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/149/77,"The potential role of co-design in the fashion industry and system toward a more sustainable future and as a critical action for social change can be addressed through the role design assumes in an organisation. This article describes a strategy to develop a sustainable consumption culture through participatory design activities. It does so by reconstructing the collaboration between a company and a local third-sector entity promoting co-design for social innovation. The methods used to drive this collaboration included ideation techniques and intensive co-design workshops aimed at developing a recognisable sustainable brand and understanding sustainability-related topics for the company’s customers. Strategies, design probes and replicable design tools emerging from the workshop were applied as innovative actions. This collaboration provided several experiences that, on the one hand, allowed the identification of new company strategies for supporting sustainability in the fashion industry and, on the other hand, created the condition to systematically adopt co-design instruments for providing social change through company actions.",discernj-149.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/152,"Cantrell, Gayle; Yates, Berni; Hugill, Lynne; Wetherell , Sophie; Barrett, Jennifer; Murray, Stephen","The decentralisation of fashion education in Northeast England through collaborative practice between education, communities and industry",2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion; 23-39",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/152/70,"This article focuses on a collaboration between educators at higher education institutions in the UK, reflecting on fashion education in Northeast England and how it is evolving to support and diversify aspirations for the arts outside London. The project is supported by research backed by the British Fashion Council, aiming to explore regional initiatives to enable young creatives to have stable careers in fashion and the arts across the UK. This paper demonstrates how examples of this have been implemented through the work of the community education group This is Creative Enterprise, UAL, Teesside and Northumbria universities, through building pathways from schools to universities and encouraging dialogue between schools, industry, higher education and community groups. Case studies demonstrate participatory research projects that encourage responsible engagement with fashion, supporting regional growth, community engagement and a decentralised vision.",discernj-152.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/154,"de Greef, Erica",Designed for life: Fashioning emergent futures,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion; 11-22",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/154/69,"An exhibition review of Designed for Life that coincided with the opening of the new London College of Fashion (LCF) campus at UAL’s new East Bank home on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in October 2023. Exploring the exhibition's diverse projects employing textiles, design, film, photography, artefacts, testimonies and community building, the review considers both the affect of witnessing and the transformative power of creative action for a future fashion system that will expand the possibilities for people to live well together in a more-than-human world, will shift the contemporary narratives of emergency, to (k)new narratives of emergence towards radically new ways of living.",discernj-154.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/159,"Mazzarella, Francesco; Mirza, Seher",Decentring fashion : Participatory practices for shifting narratives and regenerating cultures,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion; 1-10",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/159/76,"Historically, the textile heritage of minorities has often been subjected to cultural appropriation practices (Young, 2008) or systematically undervalued and ‘othered’ as ‘non-fashion’, as such ‘sacrifice zones’ do not sit within the confines of specific fashion systems (Niessen, 2020). Designers are often ‘parachuted’ into marginalised or disadvantaged communities premised on bringing their knowledge and expertise to solve other people’s problems. However, there is growing recognition of the need to ‘decolonise’ such dominant approaches in collaborative design practice (Escobar, 2018; Mignolo, 2018; Tunstall, 2023). Different methods have been applied, sometimes in tandem, to tackle the challenges that face us as well as define new roles for the designer under different contexts, such as design activism (Fuad-Luke, 2009, 2017), design for social justice (Constanza-Chock, 2020), social entrepreneurship (Martin &amp; Osberg, 2007) and policy design (Bason, 2014; Kimbell et al., 2023).",discernj-159.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/161,"Team, Editorial",Reviewer Acknowledgements,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/161/68,"Reviewer Acknowledgements for Discern: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 5, No. 1",discernj-161.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/162,"Mchunu, Khaya; Gounder , Kiara",Drum magazine project: A decolonial shift in teaching fashion theory and history : A decolonial shift in teaching fashion theory and history ,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion; 88-101",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/162/75,"The Drum Magazine Project is a cross-institutional teaching and research project designed to explore a decolonial approach to teaching fashion theory and history. The project used the 1950s and 1960s archives of Drum magazine, found at Bailey's African History Archives (BAHA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Fashion was considered by looking at South Africa's political, social, and cultural landscape during the 1950s and 1960s. Students wrote biographical essays based on individuals who, despite having been featured in Drum magazine, were not widely documented in South Africa. Essay writing was followed by developing magazine covers designed to capture themes related to these individuals. The text- and visual-based modes enabled students to deploy historical media archives using fashion and dress to communicate narratives of alternative fashion histories and imaginaries. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to analyse students' impressions of the magazine, the individuals they researched and the overall project. In some instances, students expressed the view that incorporating this part of South African history into fashion curricula can be uncomfortable but that addressing history in its fullness is necessary to achieve decolonial imperatives and shifts. For these reasons, this study contributes to the decolonial fashion discourse by showing how infusing context-specific examples in teaching and learning offers options for renewing, stretching, and decentering the teaching of fashion theory and history. ",discernj-162.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/164,"van Rooyen, Anel","Sustainable fashion tech innovation: A case study of Bolt Threads' redefinition of fashion systems, design activism, and social entrepreneurship.",2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Autumn Issue; 1-13",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/164/78,"This research article explores the transformative journey of Bolt Threads, a pioneering biomaterials firm operating at the intersection of biotechnology and fashion. First, the research paper sets the background and provides the research question. Second, the existing literature is reviewed to investigate sustainable entrepreneurship within the fashion industry, exploring sustainable fashion concepts and highlighting sustainable entrepreneurs’ challenges. Third, the research paper examines Bolt Threads as a case study   to redefine fashion systems, design activism, cultural sustainability, design for social change and social entrepreneurship. The case study thoroughly examines Bolt Threads’ founding story, business model, innovative technologies and strategic initiatives, underscoring the company’s dedication to sustainability and technological advancement. This case study analyses Bolt Threads collaborations with renowned fashion brands, financial strategies, the potential for industry-wide adoption and outlook. Bolt Threads demonstrates that. sustainable innovation requires thinking beyond traditional materials and methods. This approach shows that transformative change in sustainability involves looking outside the industry’s usual practices and integrating technology in unexpected ways, which can lead to groundbreaking materials that still align with fashion’s functional and aesthetic standards. Partnerships with major players help start-ups accelerate market acceptance, increase consumer trust and create broader demand for sustainable products. These alliances demonstrate that aligning with influential brands can be a strategic move for sustainable companies seeking scalability and industry-wide adoption.",discernj-164.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/16,"Sinha, Aakanksha",Innovating with social Justice: Anti-oppressive social work design framework,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ; 65-77",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/16/7,"The world is experiencing myriad social, economic and political challenges that have exasperated inequities across communities. While there have been significant efforts to respond to the challenges, dwindling funds, hierarchical organizational structures, and an over-reliance on traditional methodologies have impacted the ability to create systemic changes. These limitations have paved the way for social innovation to create novel ideas to address social issues. Innovation has predominantly come from the field of business, engineering, design and public policy. Surprisingly, social work, with a professional mandate of advocating for social change and uplifting the voices of communities has made limited contributions to the field of social innovation. This paper introduces Anti-Oppressive Social Work Design (AOSWD) framework, which integrates the principles of anti-oppressive social work practice and a design method, Human-Centred Design (HCD). It explains how social workers can use AOSWD to develop collaborative power through empathy-building, co-creation and integrated feedback. Through the establishment of collaborative power, it explains how the role of HCD can be expanded from an approach to develop user-friendly programs, to a tool for social workers to create a change in thinking in how they view and tackle complex issues. A case example of its implementation in a non-profit organization in Seattle, WA has been provided. The paper has implications for social service professionals in the areas of training, organizational design, research and evaluation.",discernj-16.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/171,"Chisumbe, Sampa; Mukalula , Peter; Aigbavboa, Clinton; Mwanaumo, Erastus; Mbewe, Thandiwe",Effects of rural entrepreneurship on community development in Zambia,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Autumn Issue; 14-34",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/171/79,"Rural entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in fostering the development of rural communities and nations at large. This study aimed to investigate the role of rural entrepreneurship in delivering community development. The study employed a quantitative approach, in which a structured questionnaire containing four indicator variables identified from the literature was administered to 197 respondents drawn from entrepreneurs involved in agriculture, retail, building construction, transportation business and metal fabrication operating in the rural areas of Copperbelt province, Zambia. The data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and regression analysis. The EFA results revealed that entrepreneurship was explained by four factors: entrepreneurial characteristics, business conception, business realization and business operation. However, the regression analysis established that of the four factors explaining entrepreneurship, only two factors, entrepreneurial characteristics and business operation, were significant in predicting community development in Copperbelt rural areas. Overall, this paper reaffirms that entrepreneurship plays a critical role in rural community development, leading to improved living standards, employment opportunities, alleviation of poverty and reduced rural-urban migration. Rural entrepreneurship is an essential stimulant of economic growth in developing countries.",discernj-171.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/175,"Jack, Siviwe; THEO, LINCOLN JOHN ; Chisin , Alettia","Small, local, open, connected: Exploring cosmopolitan localism in sustainable fashion design",2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Autumn Issue; 35-50",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/175/80,"The fashion design sector stands to gain from embracing cosmopolitan localism (CL), allowing designers to merge global trends with local cultures. This strategy fosters distinct, sustainable identities that resonate with their communities. This literature review focused on sustainable fashion design practices, searching the literature in databases that included Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, SpringerLink and ScienceDirect. The review emphasizes the relationship between traditional craftsmanship, innovation and minimizing environmental impact through global and local collaborations. Of 169 articles that met the basic eligibility criteria—focusing on sustainable practices such as ethical sourcing and consumer engagement—only five authors discussed CL. This reveals a notable gap in the literature regarding the in-depth application and evaluation of CL in sustainable fashion design. Nonetheless, key principles are apparent, such as strengthening supply chain connections to promote ethical practices, fair wages and sustainable sourcing; fostering meaningful consumer relationships through narrative-driven brand communication and values-based messaging to build brand loyalty and encourage lasting purchasing behaviours; and participating in global sustainability initiatives while remaining informed about best practices and industry standards. This clarifies how supply chain dynamics and consumer engagement impact sustainable fashion. This review examines recent applications of small, local, open, and connected (SLOC) principles in sustainability research, emphasizing their role in adapting global influences on local cultures and values. Furthermore, it emphasizes the interrelations among supply chain dynamics, consumer engagement and global sustainability frameworks in promoting a more sustainable fashion industry.  ",discernj-175.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/176,"de Jager, Sterre Lidwine; McQuillan, Holly L.; Mulder, Ingrid J.",3D woven denim as an exemplary design-manufacturing technique to shape sustainable fashion ecosystems,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Autumn Issue; 51-68",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/176/82,"Today’s fashion industry is marked by rapid production, early disposal and low-quality materials, resulting in environmental harm and social injustice. Denim production involves a resource-intensive and extended supply chain with entrenched design practices, leading to substantial pre-consumer waste. To address these issues, emerging design manufacturing techniques hold promise for fostering alternative sustainable fashion ecosystems yet remain largely underexplored by the industry. The current work focuses on 3D weaving, an innovative niche design manufacturing technique that enables the production of near-complete garments, facilitating zero waste and reducing labour-intensive steps at the cut-and-sew stage. Employing a qualitative approach informed by the literature and empirical research with denim industry professionals, this study investigates the potential of this novel design manufacturing technique in the context of systemic change beyond merely introducing technological advancement as an intervention in the existing industry. The analysis reveals four fundamental components: industry-led change, relocalisation, reimagining denim design roles and consumer communication. These key components, synthesised with the literature, are discussed respectively. We illustrate how the niche design manufacturing technique can shape novel fashion ecosystems by providing an exemplary concept which concerns the collaborative establishment of a small-scale local supply chain for 3D woven denim garments. Through this example, we aim to ignite discussions on a further reimagining of the fashion industry, utilising similar alternative lenses that prioritise sustainability over ultra-speed, high efficiency and mass production in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).",discernj-176.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/178,"Rios Llamas, Carlos; Luque Sanz, Saúl","Housing, entryways and social architecture in poor borderlands of Mexicali",2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Autumn Issue; 69-82",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/178/85,"This article presents a methodological approach to the insecurity associated with urban peripheries, using the western area of Mexicali, Baja California as a case study. Its focus is on the security of homes, the urban environment and inclusive communities, which serve as a protective mechanism, ranging from collaborative reinforcement of fences with recycled materials to neighbourhood surveillance networks that protect homes. Using the architectural design as inspiration, a prototype of security portals was created, highlighting the importance of local construction knowledge, recycling of materials and using interconnections between the home and the street. The dataset consists of field research conducted between January 2023 and June 2024. A triple method of analysis was used: (1) classification of facades within a polygon of several neighbourhoods in the Centinela area; (2) descriptive statistics based on a survey of perceived security in each street of the study area; and (3) participatory workshops to design urban strategies using materials obtained in the surroundings. The result is a proposal for entryways referred to as ‘sidewalkdesign’ because it combines the transition between the home, the sidewalk and the street, promotes neighbourhood spaces for meeting and cooperation and, most of all, ensures that homes remain safe through physical barriers and natural surveillance.",discernj-178.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/179,Editorial Team,Reviewer Acknowledgements,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Autumn Issue",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/179/83,"Reviewer Acknowledgements for Discern: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 5, No. 2",discernj-179.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/180,"Casas-Romero (Ed.), Cecilia ","Special supplement: III ESDA DESIS Social Design Days, 11-12 March 2024, Zaragoza, Spain",2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Autumn Issue; 83-102",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/180/84,"The idea of compiling this supplement for DISCERN Journal arose after the celebration of the ESDA DESIS SOCIAL DESIGN Days’ third edition in March 2024, attended by seven international professors who are experts in teaching social design. The Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón (ESDA) is a small educational institution with 300 students and 70 teachers, but with the particularity that more than half of the staff are involved in social design educational projects.",discernj-180.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/182,"Santamaria, Laura ; Kuzmina , Ksenija ",Heroic Journeys: on design for empowerment and narratives of social change,2024,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024): Autumn Issue; 103-121",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/182/86,"Can empowerment be designed? Designers often claim to empower the people and communities they work with, yet there is little critical discourse on how empowerment is defined, facilitated and achieved in social design projects. This paper draws on social and political theories to redefine empowerment within design for social change, positioning it as a political activity to address power imbalances and foster individual and collective potential. To guide best practices in design-led interventions, we present four Design for Empowerment (DfE) principles grounded in Empowerment Theory and introduce Heroic Journeys, a conceptual framework co-created with community organisers and social designers through participatory design workshops. This approach facilitates the implementation of power analysis and narrative techniques to uncover diverse stories of change, advocating for design practices that are transformative, inclusive, and responsive to the contextual complexities of design for social change projects.",discernj-182.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/186,"Garcia, Ma. Karysa F.; Campos, Karl P.","Consumers’ purchase intention towards eco-friendly packaging in Kidapawan City, the Philippines: (First published November 2022)",2025,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025): Spring Issue; 3(2), 28-37",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/186/91,"The severity of the plastic problem in the Philippines has prompted the public and private sectors to take measures to address it. As the country shifts to sustainable ways, information about green consumer behaviour is essential to effectively implement policies and programmes. This study aimed to determine consumers’ level of purchase intention towards eco-friendly packaging, whether a significant difference in consumers’ purchase intention exists when they are grouped according to socio-demographic characteristics and identify the factors that significantly affect consumers’ purchase intention. A total of 393 consumers from Kidapawan City were selected as respondents using purposive random sampling. The results revealed that respondents have a high level of purchase intention for eco-friendly packaging. There were also significant differences in the level of purchase intention when the respondents were grouped according to age and sex. Notably, females had a higher level of purchase intention. The findings from the hierarchical moderated regression analysis show that attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, environmental concern, awareness, willingness to pay and quality significantly and positively influence purchase intention towards eco-friendly packaging. In particular, it willingness to pay, quality and awareness strongly affect purchase intention. Meanwhile, the moderating variables do not affect the dependent and independent variables. The results of the study infer that purchase intention is greater among consumers when they have favourable attitudes and supportive social circles, perceive that it is easy to buy eco-friendly packaging, are more willing to support or participate in environmental initiatives, more knowledgeable, more willing to pay and have a positive perception of the quality of eco-friendly packaging.",discernj-186.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/187,"Calvoa, Mirian",Co-design for social innovation and organisational change: Developing horizontal relationships in a social enterprise through walking: (First published November 2020),2025,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025): Spring Issue; 1(1), 78-98",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/187/89,"Although an emerging body of literature identifies co-design as a promising approach to addressing the most urgent social challenges, little research has been undertaken about how co-design can support social change within the communities and organisations with which they collaborate. This is important because behavioural and organisational change is usually associated with the emergence of social innovations. These pressing socio-cultural challenges require interdisciplinary expertise, and we argue that the practice of co-design is an approach that provides such expertise. Co-design by its nature is collaborative and can respond to the cultural demands of a society eager to participate. These demands require significant research to better understand how the practice of co-design can be a catalyst for social change and social innovation. In this paper, we explore what is meant by co-creation, social design, and co-design within the theoretical context of this study. We present a case study that focuses on a social enterprise committed to sustainability operating within the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Here we examine the transformative process - associated with co-design - that the social enterprise and its members encountered. Participatory Action Research (PAR) was implemented as the research approach to this study informed by ethnographic and co-design methods. The analysis suggests that the co-design process empowered the social enterprise and its members, enabling them to co-develop responsive and empathetic attitudes among themselves. Co-design supported organisational changes by nurturing collaborative attitudes, expanding perspectives about social issues and releasing latent human abilities and assets.",discernj-187.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/188,"Sinhaa, Aakanksha",Innovating with social justice: Anti-oppressive social work design framework: (First published November 2020),2025,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025): Spring Issue; 1(1), 65-77",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/188/90,"The world is experiencing myriad social, economic and political challenges that have exasperated inequities across communities. While there have been significant efforts to respond to the challenges, dwindling funds, hierarchical organizational structures, and an over-reliance on traditional methodologies have impacted the ability to create systemic changes. These limitations have paved the way for social innovation to create novel ideas to address social issues. Innovation has predominantly come from the field of business, engineering, design and public policy. Surprisingly, social work, with a professional mandate of advocating for social change and uplifting the voices of communities has made limited contributions to the field of social innovation. This paper introduces Anti-Oppressive Social Work Design (AOSWD) framework, which integrates the principles of anti-oppressive social work practice and a design method, Human-Centred Design (HCD). It explains how social workers can use AOSWD to develop collaborative power through empathy-building, co-creation and integrated feedback. Through the establishment of collaborative power, it explains how the role of HCD can be expanded from an approach to develop user-friendly programs, to a tool for social workers to create a change in thinking in how they view and tackle complex issues. A case example of its implementation in a non-profit organization in Seattle, WA has been provided. The paper has implications for social service professionals in the areas of training, organizational design, research and evaluation.",discernj-188.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/189,"Mollel-Matodzi, Nailejileji; Mastamet Masonb, Anne; Moodley-Diar, Nalini",South African fashion design entrepreneurs’ awareness and practices of sustainable fashion supply chain operations: (First published May 2023),2025,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025): Spring Issue; 4(1), 1-11",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/189/88,"The textile and clothing industry intensifies pollution through the production of fast fashion clothes. The increase in fast fashion clothes imports in South Africa has led to the closure of textile factories and consequent loss of jobs. Sustainable development is a pathway to reducing socio-environmental, cultural and economic harm. Sustainable processes and products create new employment. Fashion design entrepreneurs are often involved and have influence in every supply chain of their business and are thus in one of the best positions to implement sustainable fashion supply chain operations. This qualitative study aimed to investigate South African fashion design entrepreneurs’ awareness and practices of sustainable fashion supply chain operations. Participants were selected purposively, and data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The results indicated that most of the participants were aware of sustainable fabrics through personal research. Half of them source and produce sustainable garments on a small scale due to the high price of sustainable fabrics. All the participants had limited knowledge of sustainable design methods. All the participants save their fabric offcuts, and only half of them are motivated by environmental concerns. Furthermore, the results indicated a lack of systems to manage the recycling of fabric offcuts. Given that there are few sustainable fashion design entrepreneurs in South Africa, the study recommends that textile and clothing industry leaders, especially sustainability practitioners, disseminate knowledge and training across the board on sustainable supply chain operations.",discernj-189.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/190,"Mercer, Lisa Elzey; McDonagh, Deana",The pedagogy of discomfort: Transformational experiential learning: (First published October 2021),2025,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025): Spring Issue; 2(2), 22-35",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/190/87,"Education is intended to be a transformative experience for the student. In the practice of transformative pedagogy, instructors provide students with the time and space to explore their own sets of beliefs, values and standards and how they incorporate those beliefs into their work, subconsciously and consciously. At times, transformative pedagogy can be uncomfortable. However, the value of discomfort in the pedagogical process of a design course is the ability to acknowledge a knowledge gap between one’s social experiences and the experiences of other social identities. This paper focuses on the value of transformative pedagogy in working through discomfort when learning about limit situations, developing a foundation for transformative pedagogy in a course setting, the importance of critical thinking in transformative pedagogy and how transformative pedagogy is presented with a focus on ethics, disability and responsible design. By embedding ethics, critical consciousness and strategic thinking, the process translates into a transformative practice of design and innovation. Students learn new emerging ways of affecting change with a multiplicity of ideas when educators engage in transformative pedagogy. It is also to ascertain what kind of learning enables people to create solutions for communities involved in a continuously ongoing process of defining sustainable development.",discernj-190.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/19,"Cherai, Rime; Gayomali, Jonathan; Benítez, Nuria",Comparing methods of transport in an age of social distancing,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ; 50-64",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/19/6,"This article explores the new urban mobility paradigm in an after COVID-19 world. The pandemic has dramatically changed the conditions under which users access and use public transportation. Analysing mobility in cities across the world – New York, Mexico City – the study highlights the dense demand for public transportation solutions in those two different megalopolises. The experience of COVID-19 pandemics has shed the light on the necessity of rethinking the current offer and creating a new set of adaptive solutions which replace sanitary safety as a central element of assessment. To what extent are COVID-19 and the possibility of other spreading of viruses affecting how common modes of transportation are thought about and used? The article revises first the modes of transportations. Emphasizing the unique challenge of social distancing imposed by the pandemic, the study covers its consequences for users, cities authorities as well as operators. While it appears as a condition to contain the spread of the virus, it is also part of an economic equation for operators, who might struggle soon to cover growing operational costs, while running their networks with a smaller number of travellers. Finally, the study opens the discussion on the opportunity offered by the pandemic to redesign and rethink our mobility more adaptively and sustainably.",
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/21,"Dhaundiyal, Dhriti; Pant, Richa",It takes a village: Community based participatory research as a design research tool,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ; 12-26",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/21/2,"Design has transitioned progressively from a consumer-focused discipline to a human-centred one, with a more complex agenda. Design thinking has been successfully deployed as an agent for social change. In this paper we take a trans-disciplinary approach to social design in remote villages of Uttarakhand, India. Lack of employment opportunities and tough sustenance in the mountainous regions of India has led to mass migration and ghost villages. Recent interventions at the micro level, born from a participatory approach rather than the top down structure of government development schemes, have been seen to be more effective in tackling this complex socio-economic issue. Community based participatory research has been deployed previously in areas like public health and primary education successfully. With this paper we reflect on the viability of using it to identify areas of effective design intervention, not just to address current issues faced by the residents of remote villages in the Himalayas but also to encourage future social entrepreneurs. We worked in a group of Himalayan villages in collaboration with local government agents as part of a month long design education module. Design students and development professionals teamed up with residents, using methods like transect walks, socio-cultural mapping of health, water and sanitation, education, leadership, mobility, skill and vulnerability and co-design activities. Analysis led to a deeper understanding of social structure, education, resource equity, power dynamics, flow of information, drudgery, vulnerability and potential areas for social entrepreneurs. An iterative model of exploration, analysis, design proposition and refinement was followed to identify challenges faced by residents and areas of possible design intervention.",discernj-21.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/29,"Fuad-Luke, Alastair; Uğur Yavuz, Seçil; Sy, Corinna ; Schubert, Jennifer ; Krois, Kris",Action-centred design to find opportunities in times of multiple crises: Designing a toolkit from a participatory conference,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ; 37-49",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/29/5,"The global crisis around the COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about our societal conditions while amplifying the challenges of our existing multiple crises to wider questions of sustainability. Such crises, which are both threat and opportunity, have been highlighted for 50 years within the design domain which has re-orientated towards ideas of ecological, social and economic transition and transformation. Against this background, a 7-year old conference series, presciently called By Design or By Disaster, had to convert to an online format during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Applying eco-social and participatory design principles the participants of the conference, Beyond Crisis, co-created 21 parallel workshops tasked with the aim of each generating three actions on diverse topics reflecting the interests of the participants. Live reports and synthesis of the actions generated a broad mapping of the situation to help build a spirit and momentum for social-ecological transformation through design. Subsequent analysis of the content of the workshops and actions led to the development of a prototype opensource toolkit, the Toolkit for Designing Actions in Times of Multiple Crisis, that facilitates the creation of action plans with multiple actors. This toolkit for action-centred design has the potential to help diverse actors deal with multiple crises while simultaneously helping reconfigure our societal and human to other-than-human relations by materialising preferable rather than probable or possible futures.",discernj-29.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/31,"Souleles, Nicos; Ferreira, Ana Margarida; Savva, Stefania ; Laghos, Andrew",Educational needs in cultural and arts entrepreneurship of women from marginalised backgrounds: A needs analysis for a social design intervention,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ; 27-36",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/31/4,"Despite the recognition that cultural and creative industries can foster significant economic potential and are one of Europe's most dynamic sectors, contributing to the creation of millions of jobs across the European Union, there is a noticeable lack of cultural and arts entrepreneurship programmes of study. The project CREATION (Cultural and Arts Entrepreneurship in Adult Education), funded under Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for adult education, seeks to redress this situation through a social design intervention comprising the development of a framework for adult education for the creative and cultural sectors across Europe, with a specific focus on aspiring women entrepreneurs from marginalised backgrounds (migrants, refugees and asylum seekers). This study provides a needs analysis to inform the identification of the required educational needs for the target groups. It comprises desk research of the related literature plus data from an online survey. The synthesis of the prominent themes that emerged from this study indicates the need for a multifaceted instructional design approach that combines both the essential generic skills in entrepreneurship and acknowledges the structural, contextual and educational challenges that are characteristic of the target groups.",discernj-31.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/33,"Camocho, David Geraldes; Vicente, José; Ferreira, Ana Margarida",Circular and sustainable design: A systemic design model for the transition to a circular and sustainable economy,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ; 1-11",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/33/1,"Successful and innovative design practices towards the development of more circular and sustainable products and services that are aligned with the current and future needs of our society rely on efficient practices that combine three main levels in the design and development process. The design management level which is responsible for establishing, planning and managing the development of design projects. The business level, which is focused on the feasibility and effectiveness of the project and its results in the short and long term. Lastly, the design level that is responsible for the implementation and development of circular design projects. This paper is part of a PhD research focused on supporting an innovative and efficient transition to a circular economy and sustainability through design. It describes the basis of a design model under development based on the design thinking process and an expert's survey carried at an international level and the research activities undertaken. It integrates the three levels in a systemic perspective, guiding the process and establishing the link between the needs of the design and development teams in terms of the definition of circularity and sustainability considerations and strategies, objectives and the activities, resources and practical tools needed to support the circular design projects.",discernj-33.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/35,none,Reviewer acknowledgements ,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/35/9,"Discern wishes to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Their contribution to the quality of the journal is greatly appreciated. Violeta Clemente, University of Aveiro, PortugalDhriti Dhaundiyal, Doon University, IndiaKatja Fleischmann, Griffith University, AustraliaAlastair Fuad-Luke, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Andrew Laghos, Cyprus University of Technology, CyprusCarlos Andres Ortega, Universidad del Valle, ColombiaClaire Pillar, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Fenja Ellen Sepers, Studio Abound, HollandAakanksha Sinha, Seattle University, United States",discernj-35.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/36,"Longo, Ilaria; Massari, Sonia ",The neighbourhood home: An environments system from sharing to caring,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Spring issue; 1-15",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/36/11,"Cities are changing. Wars, climate change and idealised better life opportunities open the doors for massive migration. Unfortunately, however, the new arrivals with their different backgrounds and lifestyles are often perceived as a threat to pre-existing culture and home. But what is ‘home’? From the results of ethnographic research and an online open survey conducted for a master’s degree final thesis in systemic design, ‘home’ is the neighbourhood that involves all the values and behaviours that everyone needs in their everyday life. This research led to the academic concept of the ‘neighbourhood home’, a system of new environments for future inclusive cities that aims to make all the inhabitants ‘feel at home’. This notion is based on the idea that inclusion is developed through empathy, creativity and know-how, discovering the cultural rituals and myths of different peoples. In every structure (like Homes of Music, Language, Clothing, etc.), new and old citizens can rediscover their common roots, which have always been, today as yesterday, interconnected through a multiplicity of cultural handicraft expressions. The pilot project designed is ‘MeetEat’, a home that promotes informal cooking classes and social eating and is ingredient-driven (chosen on a seasonal basis) and organised by volunteer citizens in the neighbourhood. With the neighbourhood home’ thesis, we aim to propose a system that can turn diffidence into curiosity, conflicts into sharing and exclusion into caring.",discernj-36.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3,"Calvo, Mirian; Sclater, Madeleine",Co-design for social innovation and organisational change: Developing horizontal relationships in a social enterprise through walking,2020,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Inaugural issue ; 78-98",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/3/8,"Although an emerging body of literature identifies co-design as a promising approach to addressing the most urgent social challenges, little research has been undertaken about how co-design can support social change within the communities and organisations with which they collaborate. This is important because behavioural and organisational change is usually associated with the emergence of social innovations. These pressing socio-cultural challenges require interdisciplinary expertise, and we argue that the practice of co-design is an approach that provides such expertise. Co-design by its nature is collaborative and can respond to the cultural demands of a society eager to participate. These demands require significant research to better understand how the practice of co-design can be a catalyst for social change and social innovation. In this paper, we explore what is meant by co-creation, social design, and co-design within the theoretical context of this study. We present a case study that focuses on a social enterprise committed to sustainability operating within the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Here we examine the transformative process - associated with co-design - that the social enterprise and its members encountered. Participatory Action Research (PAR) was implemented as the research approach to this study informed by ethnographic and co-design methods. The analysis suggests that the co-design process empowered the social enterprise and its members, enabling them to co-develop responsive and empathetic attitudes among themselves. Co-design supported organisational changes by nurturing collaborative attitudes, expanding perspectives about social issues and releasing latent human abilities and assets.",discernj-3.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/40,"Giunta, Elena Enrica; Cattaneo, Maria Chiara; Scolozzi, Rocco",Far-sighted communities: Design meets future studies to boost visioning and participatory foresight,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Spring issue; 16-28",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/40/12,"The increasing uncertainties of all contemporary communities require future literacy, and strengthening the participatory dimension of foresight practice is part of the solution. The “Montagna 4.0 FutureAlps'” project involved high school students, teachers, businesses and stakeholders of Valtellina, Northern Italy, in local laboratories of participatory foresight through a codesign approach. This article briefly reports the project framework and the visioning exercises undertaken to build meaningful images of the future (2040). Such images should be able to question and broaden the current development visions of the Alpine Valley and inspire a collective design of its development trajectories by raising the community’s awareness of current and future changes. The activities took place over six workshops with three meetings each from September to December 2020, involving students (“@Scuola”), local stakeholders (“community lab”) and the general public and experts (“Open talk”). Each workshop focused on a specific topic, such as the mountain of tomorrow, sustainable innovation, social innovation and sustainable communities, protection, production and promotion, sustainable mobility and events for Alpine tourism. The outputs consisted of uncertainty scenarios, postcards from different futures and indications to make development strategies future-proof, which are all elaborated on in this article.",discernj-40.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/42,none,Reviewer acknowledgements,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Spring issue",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/42/20,"Discern wishes to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Their contribution towards the quality of the journal is greatly appreciated. Erika Marlene Cortes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MexicoDhriti Dhaundiyal, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IndiaKatja Fleischmann, Griffith University, AustraliaDóra Horváth, Corvinus University of Budapest, HungaryLucinda Morrissey, Universidad Europea Madrid, SpainSelin Mutdogan, Hacettepe University, TurkeyClaire Pillar, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Lara Salinas, University of the Arts London, United KingdomMarios Samdanis, Brunel University London, United KingdomStefania Savva, Synthesis Center for Research and Education, CyprusScott Schmidt, Georgetown &amp; Clemson University, United States",discernj-42.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/44,"Cortes, Erika Marlene; Garduño Lara, Pamela ; Molina Mora, David; Serrano Ayvar, Ricardo",Understanding Single-Use Plastic (SUP) during COVID-19 lockdown through digital ethnographic research,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Spring issue; 29-45",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/44/13,"How do people’s interaction and behaviour change in a world where social contact is suddenly limited? How does ethnographic research change and adapt to new interaction rules? What can we discover through it? During the COVID-19 lockdown, we identified an extensive opportunity for digital ethnography (DE) to explore the evolving social worlds. As the starting point, this research aimed to inquire into the daily use of single-use plastics (SUP) consumption and disposal amongst the community that occupies UNAM’s Posgraduate Unit through the design and application of a set of ethnographic analogic and participative tools. However, the COVID-19 world pandemic detoured our initial research plan and turned it into DE research. This shift required a change of theoretical contents into the comprehension and implementation of DE to rethink the field research. This article registers the adaptation of an ongoing project because of a disruptive event like a pandemic; through it, we want to share our experiences of using DE as a qualitative approach, insights about our project process and our predictive perspective about the growing problem we are facing with SUP.",discernj-44.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/45,"Sendra, Dalia; Ferreira, Ana Margarida","CraftDesign for entrepreneurship, social innovation and sustainability ",2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Spring issue; 46-53",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/45/14,"Crafts, under the umbrella of the cultural and creative sector, represent an important contribution to social development and cultural freedom. Entrepreneurship through crafts and design brings a strategy to promote the empowerment of vulnerable communities. Given the challenges our society is and will be confronting in the 21st century, such as the climate emergency, the process of digital automation in the human workforce, emergencies such as natural disasters or protracted crises, as well as the socioeconomic crisis that will follow the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific knowledge on policies and strategies aimed at promoting sustainable development and ensuring the equality and social inclusion of vulnerable communities should be strengthened. This paper reflects upon the role crafts design and entrepreneurship can play in promoting sustainable development.",discernj-45.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/46,"Gorgel Pinto, António","Emancipation and creativity atlas: Participatory art and design, the societal image",2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Spring issue; 54-68",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/46/17,"Participatory art and design is an eclectic domain and an increasingly relevant trend. We have been witnessing the profusion of projects of an activist nature, simultaneously informed by ethics, aesthetics and politics, which aim to benefit society. Encouraging the social and cultural sustainability of citizens living in disenfranchised residential areas by developing their creativity in a systematised way is the scope of the present research. Through an experimental methodology focused on project development, three case studies are presented—Netskola, Kowork and More South—all of which took place in socially and culturally disenfranchised neighbourhoods of the wider Lisbon area, specifically in the cities of Amadora and Oeiras. Then follows a case study evaluation conducted using the Delphi method. The research concluded that participatory art and design is a holistic territory that can be understood as interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary and that this understanding can foster the development of alternative and innovative solutions that contribute to the sociocultural sustainability of vulnerable urban areas. Recognising the advantage of this expanded field and enhancing the socially engaged art domains is not only important for these areas of knowledge, which can thus develop further, but also for the many situations in society that can benefit from systematic creativity.",discernj-46.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/47,"Huang, Li-Ting; Villari, Beatrice",Co-creation in circular cities: A design perspective,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Spring issue; 69-88",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/47/18,"The release of the European Green Deal for the circular economy has made more and more municipal authorities embed circular economy principles into their visions and strategies, fostering the transitions towards a “circular city”. Collaborative practices are becoming familiar, and concepts such as co-creation are entering the policymaking vocabulary, indicating that citizens and other actors are being asked to work collaboratively towards a sustainable future. This also means re-designing systems and services in cities with the aim of tackling emerging social and environmental issues and co-creating innovation paths. However, co-creation as an approach for implementing a circular economy at the city level has not yet been thoroughly investigated. The aim of this paper is to outline a framework that can be used by cities to identify new opportunities for co-creation initiatives from a design perspective. Using a three-step research process: (i) literature review, (ii) case study analysis and (iii) results interpretation, this paper delineates nine co-creation categories for sustainable development and identifies stakeholders and tools to be adopted by seeing circular economy principles as the ultimate goal.",discernj-47.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/49,"Neves Pimenta, Maísa; Gonçalves, Eduardo; Valente Pereira, Cristóvão",Domestic kitchen design as a tool to reduce food waste,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Spring issue; 89-100",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/49/22,"This paper describes broader research undertaken for a master’s degree in product and space design at IADE, Universidade Europeia, Lisbon, Portugal. It aims to define guidelines for the development of domestic kitchen projects that contribute to reducing food waste. After this research, our goal is to further develop its outcomes through future research and the implementation of the resulting guidelines in a lifesize field experiment. We departed with the hypothesis that space design may influence users’ behaviour; therefore, it can be used as an active tool in favour of sustainability. We defined a methodology that informed a review of the literature, case studies and surveys. We analysed comprehensive themes regarding the problem, which enabled a holistic approach to the issue. We conclude this paper by showing the pertinence of our research proposal, a novel way of combining specific strategies from three primary areas of knowledge (design for behavioural change, food waste and interior design) to achieve our goals of reducing food waste in domestic kitchens and contributing in this way to a more sustainable society.",discernj-49.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/50,"Dhaundiyal, Dhriti","Design justice, community-led practices to build the worlds we need : Book review",2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 1-6",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/50/23,"‘Design justice, community-led practices to build the worlds we need’ is an essential read for those involved with social design and social justice. Defining design justice as “an exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival”, Constanza-Chock positions it as a function of power in design processes, hypothesizing that design justice is an end result of who has power while researching and while designing, the decisions they make and how these decisions affect marginalised groups.",discernj-50.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/51,"Lopes, Luciana",Components of spirituality to safeguard life: For the development of an Integral Design Management approach,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 7-21",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/51/34,"The present article is the initial result of fieldwork on design and spirituality in the scope of an ongoing doctoral research in design. The research is developed with Lusophone ‘quilombolas’, Afro-Brazilian and traditional family farming groups and communities from Brazil and Portugal, which present implicit spirituality-driven design management approaches. The project proposes that a spiritual dimension should be a fundamental component of a design management strategy that is intended to be integral. The first learning case was carried out in ethnographic format with the Association of Women Farmers of Castelões (Associação das Mulheres Agricultoras de Castelões), Portugal. The chosen methodology was the decomposition of the design and spirituality concept from the thoughts of Papanek (1971 and 1995), Schumacher (1974), Walker (2011), Margolin (2014) and Escobar (2018). Components of spirituality were identified to guide field data collection. Subsequently, components of spirituality were identified from the participatory experience and participant observation with the artisans, as well as analysis of these identified components was carried out. In conclusion it was possible to conceive 'Components' of a reinvented spirituality for today: 'Spirituality to Safeguard Life'. It is believed that these may support the development of a spirituality-driven design management approach with a Lusophone reference, entitled 'Integral Design Management'. It is planned to apply this approach in academic, business, governmental, non-governmental and civil society environments. Through its practice, it is intended to promote the implementation of transformative systems with values and paradigms shift for the recovery, flourishing and continuity of life.",discernj-51.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/53,"Elzey Mercer, Lisa; McDonagh, Ph.D., Deana",The pedagogy of discomfort: Transformational Experiential Learning,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 22-35",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/53/25,"Education is meant to be a transformative experience. In the practice of transformative pedagogy, instructors provide students with the time and space to explore their own set of beliefs, values, and standards and how they incorporate those beliefs into their work, subconsciously and consciously. At times transformative pedagogy can be uncomfortable, however, the value of discomfort in the pedagogical process of a design course is the ability to acknowledge a gap of knowledge in our social experiences and then learn from that gap of knowledge. This paper will focus on the value of transformative pedagogy in working through discomfort when learning about limit-situations, developing a foundation for transformative pedagogy in a course setting, the importance of critical thinking in transformative pedagogy, and how transformative pedagogy is presented when the focus is on ethics, disability, and responsible design. By embedding ethics, critical consciousness, and strategic thinking, the process translates into a transformative practice of design and innovation. Students learn new ways of affecting change with a multiplicity of ideas when educators engage in transformative pedagogy. It is also to ascertain what kind of learning enables people to create solutions for communities involved in a continuously ongoing process of defining sustainable development.",discernj-53.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/54,"Wikberg Nilsson, Åsa",BeChange: Exploring constitutions of a transformative design practice,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 36-50",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/54/31,"This paper explores constitutions of a co-design approach for releasing the transformative potentials of design, through a sustainable service design project called BeChange. Some of the more recent design approaches are means to address a wider range of issues and areas than previously thought of in design. In an innovative project, there are no real users before solutions have been launched, so how does one approach transformative co-design, and who should one co-create with? There is still scarce knowledge, particulars, and examples of how such transformative co-design projects are approached, the incentives for such deeds, and the challenges involved, that can form principles for transformative co-design. Drawing on literature reviews of transformation, participation and service design, and through outlining BeChange, the objective is to explore constitutions of such practices. The overall vision was of creating sustainable lifestyle changes, and the mission was of co-designing a digital service concept. The approach involved co-design sprints, to better understand behavioural changes, authentic sustainability, and user experiences through prototyping. With respect to preceding design research, this paper provides insights of co-design practices with a focus on transformation, in regard to the wicked problems of exploring behaviour changes and co-creating future services with prospective users.",discernj-54.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/56,"Salvador, Margarida Lestra Chaves",Centenary haberdashery in downtown Lisbon,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 51-63",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/56/24,"This study begins with a survey on the haberdashery traditional business conditions in downtown Lisbon, the study of retail trade, the analysis of the retromarketing concept and finally looking into the consumption’s sustainability. It aims to propose marketing and design strategies which can help to revitalize the haberdashery economic value and remove these businesses from obsolescence and almost anonymity. Having understood the importance of communication with the consumer, through interviews, selecting a qualitative methodology and align this understanding with some theoretical concepts, hence supporting the exhibition of a set of proposals for the creation of a new identity. For each haberdashery a new identity was defined, as well as for a broad one that encompasses all stores present in this study - RETROS.The above proposals seek to redefine traditional values, by the means of orientation and communication support, aiming to attract new target audiences, but also to consider a new aesthetic and imagery creation that should not be disassociated from these brands nor outdated. With the adoption of this creative strategy, it is expected some effect on the relevance of haberdashery business, financial impact and integration in the economic-cultural context that will give new life to Rua da Conceição haberdashery historical shops and to its brands.",discernj-56.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/58,"Bittencourt, Juliana; Menegotto Frick de Moura, Luzia; von Frankenberg Berger, Ana",Enabling co-creation for social innovation: The Parada do Sol Project,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 64-78",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/58/33,"This article reports a social innovation project coordinated by the Tecnopuc Creativity Laboratory from PUCRS (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) that impacted Morro da Cruz, a neighborhood in the peripheral region of the city of Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil. The main objective of the project was to positively impact the environment and the residents of the neighborhood in question, which led to the development of a technological installation using renewable energy. The method combined the stages of the 'Social Innovation Process' with Tecnopuc Crialab's authorial user-centered exploratory research approach. Using the quadruple helix model for innovation as a framework, diverse stakeholders were involved. The execution of the project followed a participatory process based on co-creation, which is one of the important characteristics of designing for social innovation. The participatory aspect was fundamental to creating an outcome capable of impacting and to bringing real benefits to the territory and its community. Besides the development of a technological installation, the project had a significant impact on the lives of young people, as an opportunity was identified to train and educate the young participants providing practical learning opportunities that amplified the results and assured the continuity of the project. This article reports the Parada do Sol as a study case, which results show the relevance of involving stakeholders in a participatory design process to create an innovative solution.",discernj-58.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/60,"Gaughwin, Melinda; Ellice-Flint, Sarah ",Social design pedagogy and the UN SDGs: Bridging theory and practice to foster critical agency for sustainable futures,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 79-94",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/60/35,"This paper reflects on designing, coordinating, and teaching into a third-year unit of study, Design for Social Impact, at The University of Sydney, Australia in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It specifically comments on how the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are used to scaffold student projects in social design spaces. What we are interested in extracting from the entire unit of study is the ways in which design pedagogy for social change combines design theory and practice to deepen enquiry into what, how and why student social designers design. To do so we pay specific attention to what constitutes social design, and the role of a “social designer.” We discuss how design theory and practice might underpin a student’s understanding and application of critical agency over their practice of design. Further, we draw specific attention to the unique challenges and complexities of the practice of social design for students in the context of COVID-19. The intention of this paper is to contribute to critical discussion of social design pedagogy and offer insights into the ways in which the SDGs might contribute to this pedagogy.",discernj-60.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/61,"Sancho, Pedro; Gomes, Rute; Pernencar, Cláudia ",Involving or not the beneficiaries role players on social initiative games: Case studies analysis ,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 95-122",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/61/28,"Social inequalities are intensifying the initiatives in which the providence State is requested to find solutions and tools to improve the social impact. In this perspective, the Management and Entrepreneurship fields assume a huge relevance in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship areas. Considering that, Manzini (2015) suggests that the most efficient model for fighting social inequalities within a vulnerable community is to involve them in the process when solving social problems through a project development. Focus on Manzini’s proposal and having in mind the beneficiaries’ involvement in this kind of initiative a question emerged: What is the role of the beneficiary's involvement as a critical success factor in development of Social Innovation projects? To answer, it was carried out a narrative literature review that guided the action of a case study analysis matrix following these parameters: i) business model; ii) public funding dependency; iii) Involvement levels of beneficiaries and iv) business sustainability/ longevity. Seven social entrepreneurship projects were analysed. The results and discussion section led to concluding that a correlation between longevity and beneficiaries’ involvement exists. Also, the design of initiatives’ business models that consider their involvement, influence positively the longevity and the sustainability of a social initiative. ",discernj-61.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/64,"Watkin, Thomas; Catoir-Brisson, Marie-Julie",Rethinking social and sustainable innovations through prospective co-design and project-grounded research,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue; 123-137",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/64/29,"How can project-grounded research (PGR) in social design makes it possible to question the creation of social relations, the emergence of forms of solidarity? Our article examines how social and sustainable innovation can integrate prospective co-design, foresight and societal fiction to offer new imaginaries of the territories. We explain how social design could invest in sustainable development and social and solidarity economy (SSE) by taking the example of the commons and community building. The first part demonstrates how social design can contribute to research in the social solidarity economy, by opening up to other research practices, like PGR, in particular through future-oriented studies and design. The second part puts social design into perspective with the practices of prospective co-design, to highlight the contribution of this approach to the fields of the SSE and sustainable development. Finally, we open up social design with a sustainable and united aim through the prospective approach, illustrated by two PGR case studies engaging prospective co-design for sustainability and to a lesser extent SSE. One case study explains how sustainable issues in rural and urban areas can find a solution in a visual tool created through a prospective codesign approach mixed with speculative design and strategic visioning. Another case study develops a co-design device in order to imagine alternative futures in a deregulated climate and environmental risks.",discernj-64.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/65,none,Reviewer acknowledgements,2021,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn Issue",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/65/30,"Discern wishes to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Their contribution towards the quality of the journal is greatly appreciated.Sarah Baker, Media Design School, New ZealandBeatrice Villari, Polytechnic University of Milan, ItalySue Giloi, Inscape, Pretoria, South AfricaMarios Samdanis, Brunel University London, United KingdomScott Schmidt, Georgetown &amp; Clemson University, United StatesHarah Chon, Lasalle College of the Arts, SingaporeShriya Malhotra, independent researcher, IndiaJyoti Kapur, University of Borås, SwedenEgemen Okutur, Bahcesehir University, TurkeyZoran Markovic, University of Botswana, Gaborone, BotswanaLisa Elzey Mercer, University of Illinois, United StatesNeema Munuo, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany",discernj-65.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/72,"Zenonos, Eleni",Social impact measurement in Cyprus and other European countries ,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Spring Issue; 83-94",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/72/44,"Although non-profit and other organisations related to social issues in Europe have increased, there is currently a gap when it comes to measuring their performance and social impact. This can cause mistrust and may have negative implications on their efficiency and sustainability. As part of the Erasmus+ project Social Impact Measurement for Civil Society Organizations (SIM4CSOs), which aims to create a common methodology and approach civil society organisations can apply to measure their social impact (in the form of a methodological manual and online resources), a survey and focus groups were conducted with representatives of civil organisations, corporate social responsibility departments and policymakers to identify existing skill gaps and training needs. The research took place in Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Norway and Portugal. The results showed that social change practitioners, whether they work for non-profit organisations or the private sector, are keenly aware of the benefits of impact measurement. However, they expressed a need for buy-in and participation from organisational management, as well as identifying the main stakeholders who benefit from their activities. Additionally, many organisations indicated a lack of resources (financial and technical) to carry out a full-impact measurement process and evaluation. Finally, there was a clear need to consider the skill levels of practitioners, which varied. Therefore, most organisations suggested that the methodology developed should be practical, adaptable and non-time-consuming and that any platform used should be accessible and easy to use.",discernj-72.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/73,"Bertmark, Anna",Consuming new narratives: Second-order design fictions as transition objects for planet-centric consumption habits,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Spring Issue; 1-16",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/73/37,"The current dominant narratives of endless economic growth are contributing to unsustainable conditions that prevent humans from living within planetary boundaries. Many present sustainable alternatives fall short of embodying regenerative and equitable principles, casting doubt on the human capacity for mitigating climate change. This highlights the need for options that redirect the future of consumption. Second-order design fictions (SoDFs) is a method for reframing our relationship with the entrenched fictions that are part of dominant narratives. These half-familiar, tangible artefacts allow for critical sense-making that playfully provokes questions around the power structures, values and assumptions that uphold the consumption patterns that we engage in daily. SoDFs seek to interfere with consensus and allow observation of observations on how to address tensions between structures of thinking and formulate complexity of reality and possibility. The project builds upon work by Dulmini Perera, ‘Superflux, The Liminal Space’ and ‘Do The Green Thing’.",discernj-73.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/74,Umut Tasa,"An ecology of media, technology and design",2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Spring Issue; 17-30",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/74/38,"It is a mediated experience through designed artefacts, systems and environments that human beings relate to the earth. The already transformative effect of this mediated existence has accelerated sharply with digitalization. In this research, we take the dichotomies of nature/culture and human/environment and the consequent miscalibration between human intentions and ecological results as the root cause of the current ecology and mind crisis, and we approach the situation as a ‘design failure’. We intend holistically to propose a conceptual design guideline, as a contemplation tool to be able to ‘think like a mountain,’ which proposes a set of common principles that healthy ecosystems are supposed to carry.",discernj-74.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/75,"Nold, Christian; Kaszynska, Patrycja; Bailey, Jocelyn; Kimbell, Lucy",Twelve potluck principles for social design,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Spring Issue; 31-43",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/75/39,"The term ‘social design’ is used in a variety of contexts, but—or maybe because of this—it is far from clear what it means. The starting point for this paper is that there is a need for stronger and more critical community discourse to understand and clarify what social design is and what it does. By analyzing key texts, the paper identifies commonalities, disagreements and unresolved questions in relation to social design. Drawing on the example of citizen science, the paper argues for a need to develop principles for social design for further inquiry and discipline-building for social design. The paper offers twelve principles that focus on the notion of the social in social design, its methods and practices and its normative intent, as well as its critical reflexivity. These principles are intended as a ‘potluck’ boundary object to kickstart a stronger social design community. The paper reports feedback from two workshops where these principles were discussed and tested with design academics suggesting how the principles can be applied.",discernj-75.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/77,"Monna, Vanessa; Hayama, Yasuyuki",Nurturing public value for community resilience: A tentative discussion around co-production of narratives through a civic design approach,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Spring Issue; 44-53",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/77/40,"Within a society characterised by growing complexity, communities attempt to address wicked problems (Rittel &amp; Webber, 1973), which impact how people live together. The concept of community resilience has been discussed in public policy and social-ecological systems studies for communities to be prepared for emergencies. Recently, evolutionary resilience (Davoudi, 2012) has been proposed in the context of communities facing wicked problems evolving within uncertain worlds. Evolutionary resilience highlights the growing need for flexible adaptation towards more dynamic social change. We argue that nurturing public value could be a strategic approach for taming wicked problems beyond resource control and the capacity for communities to achieve resilience in a rapidly changing society. Indeed, the broad literature about public value already implies that it can be properly developed as an outcome of collaboration between public institutions and citizens. However, the processes nurturing public value are still under investigation, especially within design studies. We propose that the co-production of common narratives between public institutions and citizens fruitfully produces public value, by linking design narratives to the interpretive approach tightly associated with the concept of evolutionary resilience. Moreover, we suggest that the emerging realm of civic design could be a consistent approach for communities and public institutions to produce and reproduce these kinds of common narratives.",discernj-77.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/78,"Vignati, Arianna ; Lam, Busayawan; Azariadis, Philip; D’Ambrosio, Silvia ; Bofylatos, Spyros",Teaching design in emerging countries: A train-the-trainer methodology,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Spring Issue; 54-66",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/78/41,"Design disciplines have constantly evolved to keep up with the emerging demands of the 21st Century. Design education is thus called to change its methods, tools and approaches. There is an increasing interest in emerging economies in design education, especially in India, where the role of creativity, communication and technology can support social and economic development. This paper aims to present the educational approach developed in the context of the Erasmus+ KA2 project entitled ‘Design and Innovation Capacity Building in India/DESINNO’. The modernisation and internationalisation of Indian universities with innovative and contemporary design courses have been the main goals of a set of research and training activities. In this paper, the state-of-the-art methodologies in design thinking, sustainability, design research, social innovation and ethical issues in design are presented, leading to a bespoke educational approach that provides a platform for Indian design academics to apply modern educational approaches to their specificities and needs.",discernj-78.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/79,"Gonzalez, Ricardo","Biocomposite’s ecodevelopment from water hyacinth: A proposal of sustainable-integral design for Xochimilco, Mexico City",2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Spring Issue; 67-82",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/79/42,"This work starts from the context of an environmental crisis that frames a growing trend of a search for alternatives of a sustainable nature as a proposal solution from the transdisciplinary approach of design. The objective of this work consists of planning an eco-development strategy to create biocomposite materials using water hyacinth (eicchornia crassipes) as raw material. The approach will be part of a collective research programme for future doctoral studies whose further objective is the sustainable integral community development of San Gregorio Atlapulco in Xochimilco, Mexico City. Theoretically, an approach is made from complex thinking and the sustainability paradigm, resulting in a vision of design as an integral sustainable activity, from the perspective of the formulation of new materials, appealing to movements like Material Activism, Ecodesign and Material Designers, in conjunction with a circular economy. Exploratory experimentation for bio bases and sustainable treatments for the water hyacinth fibre was conducted to establish the optimal formulations for the elaboration of biocomposites. From this, seven biocomposites with different properties were obtained that can be used with various low-impact processes for manufacturing sustainable design objects. By doing so, this stage ended with a prospective scenario that was proposed for further work with the community as the beginning of a social entrepreneurship initiative.",discernj-79.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/83,none,Reviewer acknowledgements,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Spring Issue",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/83/36,"Discern wishes to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Their contribution towards the quality of the journal is greatly appreciated.Lisa Elzey Mercer, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignAlessandro Segalini, Binghamton University, USAVanessa Monna, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyThelma Flores, Miami International University of Art and Design, USAOxana Jeoung-Rakova, Seoul National University, South KoreaShriya Malhotra, independent researcher, IndiaSelin Mutdogan, Hacettepe University, TurkeyAakanksha Sinha, Seattle University, USA",discernj-83.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/88,"Andrew, Inge",Designing a value object for perpetrators of domestic violence,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Autumn issue; 1-13",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/88/45,"This article focuses on a group of people who do not have a voice in everyday discourse – perpetrators of domestic violence. By engaging with qualitative design methods, including the Double Diamond design process, and looking at the system of interactions and experiences at Stopping Violence Dunedin (SVD), this research identified a series of themes and milestones for men who are perpetrators of domestic violence, leading to the development of a value object. A value object can refer to that which creates value for the user. In this case, the object is a key that created a value proposition, working to celebrate the milestones that these men reach in their journey of change, supporting the possibility of an alternative future for them – a future without violence.",discernj-88.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/89,"Hayama, Yasuyuki; Zurlo, Francesco",Toward societal transformation through design storytelling : A case study of brand designing in the mineral water industry in Finland,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Autumn issue; 14-27",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/89/46,"The world today is facing the urgent need for fundamental transformation in the ‘Anthropocene’ era. However, even if consensus has been formed around the need for transformation, what constitutes fundamental changes and how these changes occur are researched and debated across multiple disciplines, including design studies. Recently, in the design field, transition design has been proposed as a new area of design practice, study and research. Transition design is based on long-term visioning and recognition of the need for solutions rooted in new, more sustainable socioeconomic and political paradigms. This study explores the role of design storytelling in steering and navigating a societal transformation. Using a critical single case study method, this study analyses the fundamental elements of transformation that emerge from each component of design storytelling. A mineral water company in Finland was selected as the purposive single case. It is a specific type of private organization that intends to bring about a societal transition through optimum use of design storytelling. The findings illustrate that the components of design storytelling, which use societal change as their innovative business proposal, distinctively match the components of societal transformation. Design practices that leverage visual and verbal elements edit and weave a new relationship between the sociotechnical landscape, regime and innovation proposed by the company. We believe that this paper makes two main contributions. First, the authors emphasize the potential role of design as a deliberate change process for societal transformation. Second, through the cross lens of societal transformation and design storytelling, the storytelling and narrative approach of societal transformation by design is underlined.",discernj-89.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/90,"Garcia, Ma. Karysa; Campos, Karl","Consumers’ purchase intention towards eco-friendly packaging in Kidapawan City, Philippines",2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Autumn issue; 28-37",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/90/48,"The severity of the plastic problem in the Philippines has prompted the public and private sectors to take measures to address it. As the country shifts to sustainable ways, information about green consumer behaviour is essential to effectively implement policies and programmes. This study aimed to determine consumers’ level of purchase intention towards eco-friendly packaging, whether a significant difference in consumers’ purchase intention exists when they are grouped according to socio-demographic characteristics and identify the factors that significantly affect consumers’ purchase intention. A total of 393 consumers from Kidapawan City were selected as respondents using purposive random sampling. The results revealed that respondents have a high level of purchase intention for eco-friendly packaging. There were also significant differences in the level of purchase intention when the respondents were grouped according to age and sex. Notably, females had a higher level of purchase intention. The findings from the hierarchical moderated regression analysis show that attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, environmental concern, awareness, willingness to pay and quality significantly and positively influence purchase intention towards eco-friendly packaging. In particular, it willingness to pay, quality and awareness strongly affect purchase intention. Meanwhile, the moderating variables do not affect the dependent and independent variables. The results of the study infer that purchase intention is greater among consumers when they have favourable attitudes and supportive social circles, perceive that it is easy to buy eco-friendly packaging, are more willing to support or participate in environmental initiatives, more knowledgeable, more willing to pay and have a positive perception of the quality of eco-friendly packaging.             ",discernj-90.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/91,"Twamley, Georgina; Mazzarella, Francesco",The benevolent future of fashion: A framework for business partnerships with a social purpose,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Autumn issue; 38-57",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/91/55,"Consumers are increasingly buying from brands they believe in, and, therefore, fashion businesses increasingly need to align their operations with their customers’ values. With this in mind, this paper reports on a research project aimed at demonstrating ways in which the fashion system can begin to benefit society, consumers and businesses more. Recommendations are distilled from desk research and primary data collected through a consumer survey and interviews with fashion industry experts. The findings from the research reveal how collaborations can be used as a multidimensional tool and expose the tangible advantages of communicating ethics and engaging audiences by aligning with consumers’ desires. The research findings were used to inform the development of a framework which paves the way for a more socially conscious fashion industry by providing businesses with a checklist to follow to create partnerships and projects with a social purpose. To conclude, this paper advocates for how the fashion industry should begin to create more positive social impact and lays the foundations for further research on the benevolent future of fashion.",discernj-91.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/93,"Lakeridou, Rafaella Maria; Karpasitis, Christos",Social cause advertising is not your traditional advertising: A framework for designing social change,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Autumn issue; 58-78",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/93/54,"When designing advertisements, designers use a framework created by principles (guidelines) that form the foundation of the design. However, based on the literature, designers apply existing graphic design frameworks in social cause advertising without acknowledging that such advertisements differ from traditional advertising. These advertisements are designed not to promote a brand name but to influence the public and attempt to change social behaviour towards a cause. When designing for social change, designers should differentiate their advertisements and apply a tailored framework with the most effective and influential graphic design elements. Although some academic studies exist on how advertising can initiate social change, further investigation is needed on which graphic design elements are the most effective. Such research can add new knowledge to the multidisciplinary fields of graphic design and advertising and to the existing literature. This paper describes how social cause advertising differs from traditional advertising and presents the need for a graphic design framework for out-of-home social cause advertising. The objective is to identify graphic elements that can be applied specifically in the design of out-of-home social cause advertisements and build a tailored framework. The research followed a mixed methods approach: quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (interviews) data. The findings indicated that specific graphic design elements (like monochromatic colour schemes, geometric shapes, etc.) can be applied in social cause advertising to build a tailored framework targeting different age groups/genders. Such findings lead towards more public engagement and action towards the social cause advertised; but also add new knowledge to existing research, which suggests that elements like image and typography are the most effective visualization techniques. This research is part of a PhD in Graphic Design inspired by social cause advertisements. The researchers, who lost a loved one due to ischaemic stroke, devote this research to create awareness for different social causes and design for social change.",discernj-93.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/94,"Calvo, Mirian; Cruickshank, Leon; Sclater, Madeleine",Exploring mutual learning in co-design,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Autumn issue; 79-96",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/94/51,"An emerging body of literature identifies a connection between mutual learning and co-design, yet it does not specify the nature of this connection or its implications for the practice of co-design. In this paper, we explore the theoretical and practical implications of mutual learning in co-design. We present three case studies with rural communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (UK). Using participatory action research, we undertook a series of co-design projects with each case forming an action research cycle. Through these, we build cycles of insights concerning mutual learning and how this can contribute to practical co-design outcomes for participants. We also present insights that increase the duration and amount of mutual learning in co-design projects.",discernj-94.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/95,"Ramirez Loaiza, Sebastian; Rebola, Claudia B.",Fighting the opioid crisis by design : Technology solutions as innovative systems for advancing communities of care against overdose deaths,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Autumn issue; 97-107",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/95/52,"The epidemic of opiate overdose deaths has continued to advance in the United States, even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic. The state of Ohio is at the centre of the nation’s opioid crisis, with one of the highest rates of overdose deaths. Ohio’s approach to fighting the opioid crisis involves several items as part of the RecoveryOhio plan, including increasing accessibility of naloxone in communities and promoting harm reduction through education. Various state programmes exist for distributing naloxone, but these are not sufficient for the magnitude of the crisis. Moreover, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are oversaturated with calls concerning overdoses. The opioid epidemic has scaled to proportions where the country is in dire need of innovative solutions. This paper describes innovative community-based solutions for fighting the epidemic. Two pilots are described in detail: NaloxBox and AntiOD. These pilots involved collaborations between experts in emergency medicine and industrial design, trainers in overdose recognition and rescue, and community agencies and municipalities to design and launch systems for providing community access to naloxone so that lay people can rescue overdose victims in advance of the arrival of EMS. These pilots are design-led projects, implemented in communities, which aim not only to educate individuals about naloxone administration but also to empower communities to act and save lives. This model leverages technologies to bridge the access gaps and comply with the requirements of different stakeholders and state regulations while sharing the responsibility of saving lives from opiate overdose.",discernj-95.pdf
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/98,none,Reviewer acknowledgements,2022,"DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Autumn issue",DISCERN,eng,none,https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/download/98/53,"Discern wishes to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Their contribution towards the quality of the journal is greatly appreciated. Deniz Ekmekçiolu, Ondokuz Mayis Üniversitesi, TurkeySarah Baker, Media Design School, New ZealandAsa Wikberg, Luleå University of Technology, SwedenEmine Koca, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, TurkeyAicha Nairi, University of Monastir, TunisiaGeorgina Twamley, University of the Arts London, UKClaire Pillar, Art+Design: elearning lab, CyprusMelanie Levick-Parkin, Sheffield Hallam University, UK",discernj-98.pdf

