All about social responsibility

Find the best thoughts, case studies, book references, debates and tips of interest for the social responsibility category.

What is social design?
Design's social impact is a research area not covered enough by designers.
The citizen designer
In the dark days that live Mexico, emerges a discussion about how designers get involved with social conflicts.
A navel too big
Isn't it too much to ask design to “make the world better”? Isn't there in such request an exacerbation of its goals (and of designers) above its possibilities and concerns?
Social design: definitions
Graphic design seeking for understanding between sender and receiver through communication.
Sign consumption
Culture adherence to the speech of globalization require reviewing purposes and values design assumed.
Design and intelligence development
Human beings are born with several potentialities marked by genetics; nevertheless, today we know that we can develop some others through certain stimulus, like design.
Green Models in Classroom
Design teachers must spread pedagogical processes for a green world to reduce the impact of our academic exercises on the local environment.
Planned Obsolescence
Design should no longer respond to market interests anymore, but to the human needs that as a global community we have created as time goes by.
Design Manifesto
Ten principles that guide my daily design practice.
Graphic design's carbon footprint
Carbon footprint is defined as the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse effect gases, bound to a product or service.