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Social sustainability in design: moving the discussions forward

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posted on 2015-09-28, 14:57 authored by Muireann McMahon, Tracy Bhamra
This paper describes a Delphi Study conducted to begin filling the definitional deficits that exist in the discussions around social sustainability in design. The results from three rounds of the study opened a rich and multi-layered debate amongst a panel of experts from across the spectrum of design and sustainability. The paper opens by establishing a contextual background for the study and then follows with the delivery of the Delphi Study rounds and outcomes produced by the productive back and forth dialogue between researcher and experts. In conclusion, the paper presents a ‘living’ construct for social sustainability in design, as well as a framework of practical competencies designers should demonstrate to move the discussion in a more pragmatic direction.

History

Published in

Design Journal

Volume

18

Issue

3

Pages

367 - 391

Citation

MCMAHON, M. and BHAMRA, T.A., 2016. Social Sustainability in Design: Moving the discussions forward. Design Journal, 18(3), pp.367-391.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015-10-06

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Design Journal on 06 Oct 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2015.1059604

ISSN

1756-3062

Language

  • en