Articles on Social responsibility
Thoughts, case studies, book reviews, debates and tips on Social responsibility, written by prominent authors and carefully edited by FOROALFA.
- Author:
- Rodolfo Álvarez
- Title:
- Accomplice Design or Ethical Design
- Synopsis:
- How long are the designers going to keep collaborating with a system which leads us to an Earth disaster?
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- 80
- Author:
- Jorge Luis Muñoz
- Title:
- What is social design?
- Synopsis:
- Design's social impact is a research area not covered enough by designers.
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- 118
- Author:
- Martha Gutiérrez Miranda
- Title:
- Design and intelligence development
- Synopsis:
- 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.
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- Author:
- Jorge Luis Muñoz
- Title:
- Social design: definitions
- Synopsis:
- Graphic design seeking for understanding between sender and receiver through communication.
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- Author:
- Fernando Navia Meyer
- Title:
- Graphic design's carbon footprint
- Synopsis:
- Carbon footprint is defined as the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse effect gases, bound to a product or service.
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- Followers:
- 115
- Author:
- Martín Álvarez Comesaña
- Title:
- Sign consumption
- Synopsis:
- Culture adherence to the speech of globalization require reviewing purposes and values design assumed.
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- Author:
- Andrés Gustavo Muglia
- Title:
- A navel too big
- Synopsis:
- 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?
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- Author:
- Fernando Rodríguez Álvarez
- Title:
- The citizen designer
- Synopsis:
- In the dark days that live Mexico, emerges a discussion about how designers get involved with social conflicts.
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- Followers:
- 210
- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Don't Mess with My Design!
- Synopsis:
- The interprofessional critique taboo: insecurity, paranoia and corporatism refuge.
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- 3077
- Author:
- Antonio Recamier
- Title:
- Malacca Beach: Social and Environmental Implications of Design
- Synopsis:
- A call to designers and engineers to take up social and environmental impact in their designs - especially when it comes to off-shore resource extraction.
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Verbal/Non Verbal as an Identifying Polarity
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- The typological role in identity reference.
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- 3077
- Author:
- David Gallo
- Title:
- Planned Obsolescence
- Synopsis:
- 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.
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- 74
- Author:
- Camilo A. Angulo
- Title:
- The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia
- Synopsis:
- Looking back from two theories about its origin.
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- 18
- Followers:
- 199
- Author:
- Camilo A. Angulo
- Title:
- Green Models in Classroom
- Synopsis:
- Design teachers must spread pedagogical processes for a green world to reduce the impact of our academic exercises on the local environment.
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- Followers:
- 199
- Author:
- André Ricard
- Title:
- Fewer Products vs. More Services
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- A possible new horizon for the world and for the Design.
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