It has been a month since my post about the apparent absence of social design from academic literature. Since writing last, I have noticed several opportunities for social design: In my local coffee ...

Those of us who practice, fund, commission, and teach the nascent discipline of social design agree without hesitation on a couple of things: People who experience this type of design in action ...

As a society, we face some of the most difficult challenges of our time—rampant inequality, extreme polarization, social disconnection, rising mental health challenges, and climate catastrophes. For ...

"Business and social innovation live in separate worlds, and speak different languages. As the need to make humans more creative and society more resilient becomes central to corporations' ability to ...

We’ve also redefined what it means to be an essential worker. Clerks, technicians, health aides, and others once dismissed as a low-skill, high-turnover segment of the workforce have now been ...

Social media use is pervasive in our culture. And it's on the rise. At the start of this year, there were almost 3.2 billion people using social networks worldwide, up 13 percent from 2017. There are ...