Design and engineering as agents of change: a capabilities framework: a capabilities framework

Design is generally accepted to provide valuable contributions to addressing complex societal challenges. Even though design and engineering professionals show increasingly capable of making societal impact, it is not straightforward why some creative practices are more impactful in fostering systemic change, let alone what additional...

On digital citizenship and data as a new commons: Can we design a new movement? 


Along with the urgent need to reinvent our society, a series of paradigm shifts are already shaping transitions toward a more participatory and digital society. The current work takes stock of the promise of open data as a new resource and elaborates upon the maker movement, which has spurred people’s capacity to participate and has provided...

A pedagogical framework and a transdisciplinary design approach to innovate HCI education

In the current work, we introduce Applab as a pedagogical<br/>framework and a transdisciplinary design approach to innovate HCI education.<br/>Students do not work for a client, but work together with urban stakeholders to<br/>better frame the problem in order to deal with societal challenges. In this way,<br/>Applab embraces design thinking as...