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Design for Social Welfare

Social Policy in Industrial Design: A Case Study of Normative Design Thinking This research is a comparative study of the design process accross several organizations designing for/with the poor, specifically the early concept/ideation stages of ...

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What are your interests within business and international development?

Doing a PhD on Industrial Design for Social Wellbeing

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The University of Melbourne

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Present - PhD Student - University of Melbourne
2006 - BA (Hons.) Industrial Design - Monash University

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Design for Social Wellbeing

Design for Social Wellbeing: A Case Study of Normative Design Thinking

This research is a comparative study of the design process accross several organizations designing for/with the poor, specifically the early concept/ideation stages of product development. I'm interested in the way designer's "frame" their problems according to their individual perspectives, and how this affects their design process. In "social design", perspectives are often as contested as the development theories t… Continue

Posted on October 2, 2009 at 6:30pm —