期刊名称：She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
印刷版ISSN：2405-8726
出版年度：2022
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：65-92
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2022.01.002
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThe aim of this article is to develop knowledge and understanding that supports critical conceptual interventions in design innovation theory and practice. Existing discourses of design are dissonant and paradoxical, for example positioning design as at once value-free and virtuous. We explain various instances of dissonance by establishing relationships between modes of design, design discourses, and knowledge systems. We map and interpret four design discourses, revealing the plural, dynamic, and mutable nature they share. Our understanding of design in the context of social transformation varies according to how we relate to knowledge systems, how these are produced through discourses, and how the two inform distinct modes of design. We argue that dominant discourses and entrenched knowledge systems must be consciously and actively upended. For this, we present a framework for transformative action to foster encounters across discourses and engender new critical expressions of and interventions in design theory and practice.Highlights•We explain various instances of dissonance by establishing the relationships between modes of design, design discourses, and knowledge systems.•We subsequently argue that dissonance and paradoxes in the field are sites of generative knowledge production arising between and among discourses emerging from knowledge systems.•We argue that dominant discourses and entrenched knowledge systems demand action to be upended.•We present a framework for transformative action conceived to foster encounters across discourses towards new critical expressions and interventions in design theory and practice.
