Journal
The Journal of Design Strategies is an international, peer-reviewed journal focused on emerging developments at the nexus of design, business, and social innovation.
We are a journal where social scientists, designers, and artists conceptualize, prototype, test, and deploy new research tools, present findings, and aspire to make sense of emerging worlds. We publish research that addresses pressing challenges, from geographies of injustice to planetary futures.
Committed to clarity and accessibility, we aim to communicate in a language that resonates across disciplines. We foster productive connections between social science and design, whether through the use of design tools in social science research or the integration of social scientific approaches into design practice.
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Issue Archive
Cooperative Cities
The articles collected here describe a range of recent and current initiatives that seek to redress, in imaginative new ways, social and political problems characteristic of urban living.
(New) Public Goods
The articles collected in this volume explore, from a wide range of perspectives, the application of design to the development of government policies and initiatives seeking to elicit new forms of public welfare.
Alternative Fashion Systems
Fashion today plays a bigger role in more people’s lives than at any previous time in history. New designs move from catwalk to retail outlet with unprecedented rapidity, even as prices have fallen sharply. But this “democratization of style” can also impose its own costs, replacing a thoughtful and enduring relationship to one’s clothing with a regime of relentless consumption for its own sake.
Designing for Billions
“Designing for Billions” explores new opportunities for design in the context of emerging markets.
Transdisciplinary Design
As the continuing corporate and media interest in “design thinking” shows, design today is increasingly appreciated for the value it can add to organizations and institutions—including those whose own activities extend far beyond the form-giving role traditionally assigned to the design professions.
Change Design
Inspired by the 2008 Changing the Change conference in Torino, Italy, the issue explores some of the ways that contemporary decision-makers in a wide range of fields are turning to the skills, methods, and processes characteristic of the design disciplines to effect positive, constructive social change.
Technology and Everyday Life
This year’s theme, Technology and Everyday Life, touches a range of issues of concern to everyone—issues that grow more urgent as existing technologies are refined and new ones emerge.