Social Innovation

Been really interested in social innovation since going to a talk on service design called ‘The Limits of Design‘ at LCC.  And more recently to the talk organised by AIA UK ‘Betwixt Realities: Trans-disciplinarity and Resilience in Contemporary Culture‘.  Speakers from both events highlighted the importance of exchanges of knowledge between different disciplines, hence my earlier post on multidisciplinary, but also interdisciplinary, and in the AIA UK talk, FoAM – a Dutch studio term themselves trans-disciplinary.

In their presentation they don’t mention at all social innovation but their projects are effectively social innovation projects. One memorable one is the ‘Edible plants‘ project which fuses creative thinking, design, science and technology to re-develop urban green areas involving the local community.

Similarly I’m working on a project with one of my classmates, which is to develop a game that positively changes the way we live, work or interact.  So will post details on this later.