Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.06.002
L. Siddharth , Jianxi Luo
Global concerns over the trustworthiness of rapidly proliferating artificial intelligence (AI)-centric artifacts have led to generic institutional recommendations for trustworthy AI, which have yet to be operationalized and integrated with design and innovation processes. We leverage the double hump model of data-driven innovation to propose and illustrate diverse data-driven approaches for identifying and evaluating opportunities, and generating and evaluating concepts for trustworthy AI. These approaches are expected to operationalize the institutional recommendations of trustworthy AI. Building on existing frameworks for classifying and managing risks associated with AI, we advocate for an ontological basis for trustworthy AI to enable fine-grained, computational assessments of AI-centric artifacts, their domains, and the organizations that develop or manage them.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.08.003
Gabriela Goldschmidt
Existing literature on wicked problems deals with them in the context of planning, public policy, or management. Researchers refer to those who solve wicked problems as designers. These problem solvers use Design Thinking methods (DT2) for solution attempts. This paper claims that wicked design problems differ in some respects from wicked problems in planning, and to solve them, designers use different thinking and solution processes than those used by planners and others who deal with wicked problems in planning. A case study is presented to illustrate a designer’s actual design thinking process (DT1) that led to a satisfactory solution of a wicked design problem by changing its representation and by concurrently making an insight discovery. Characteristics of design thinking and Gestalt psychology are presented to shed light on these processes.
{"title":"A Wicked Design Problem: How to Hang an Old Tiki (on the Wall)","authors":"Gabriela Goldschmidt","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2025.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sheji.2025.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing literature on wicked problems deals with them in the context of planning, public policy, or management. Researchers refer to those who solve wicked problems as designers. These problem solvers use Design Thinking methods (DT2) for solution attempts. This paper claims that wicked design problems differ in some respects from wicked problems in planning, and to solve them, designers use different thinking and solution processes than those used by planners and others who deal with wicked problems in planning. A case study is presented to illustrate a designer’s actual design thinking process (DT1) that led to a satisfactory solution of a wicked design problem by changing its representation and by concurrently making an insight discovery. Characteristics of design thinking and Gestalt psychology are presented to shed light on these processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"11 3","pages":"Pages 373-392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.08.002
Xinhui Ye, Joep Frens, Jun Hu
Exploration is central to the design process, as it fosters creativity and improves design outcomes. Within design teams, exploration becomes co-exploration—a collaborative and dynamic practice that this study examines. We conducted a five-month longitudinal observational study with 61 students across 16 design teams, using weekly diary interviews to trace the dynamics of co-exploration. From this, we developed a four-dimensional framework that identified five distinct patterns of co-exploration activities. Our findings reveal how co-exploration emerges across diverse activities and team interactions, fostering togetherness and keeping design teams open-minded. This engagement cultivates collective intelligence and enables teams to share knowledge, build upon each other’s ideas, and achieve results that exceed individual contributions. We argue that co-exploration reflects the trajectory of design success and warrants further study. Finally, we provide actionable insights for practitioners seeking to enhance co-exploration in collaborative design.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.07.001
Liesbeth Stam , Marc Stemerding , Ann Heylighen
To create spaces that are both resilient and meaningful, architects are often guided by values such as sustainability, inclusion, and overall well-being. Ultimately, these values are realized through the everyday interactions between architecture and its users. Therefore, attention to use and how it relates to design choices is vital. However, studies of architects’ design processes show that knowledge of design-use relations is mainly applied intuitively and often remains unarticulated. What is lacking is a vocabulary that supports more structured thinking about what happens once architecture is built and used; how spaces, their use, and users develop in relation to each other over time. In this article, we explore the potential of philosophical and social theories of technology to offer a basis for such a vocabulary. We specifically look at postphenomenology and script theory and apply their concepts to an empirical study of a large-scale housing project. For over two years, we observed ongoing changes of its semi-public square and its use. This provided insight into (1) use in relation to design and (2) postphenomenological and script theory. It led us to propose a conceptual lens, an open script, that brings focus to architecture as architecture-in-use.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.07.002
Danielle Wilde , Mary Karyda
Despite efforts to engage civil society, local policy implementation often produces unforeseen impacts that authorities struggle to address. This article introduces a methodological approach that uses food as a culturally resonant medium for co-creating data representations. The aim is to bring lived experience of civil society actors into policy processes, in ways that are as rich as the experiences themselves. Drawing on organizational studies and stakeholder collaboration, we examine the challenge of integrating diverse perspectives in governing wicked problems. To test the method, we conducted an experimental workshop on sustainability transitions in Sweden’s Gulf of Bothnia, bringing together professional fishers, public authorities, chefs, and researchers. Participants co-created and shared a meal that represented fishers’ lived experience of a specific policy tension. This embodied sensory process fostered trust, dialogue, and mutual understanding—reconfiguring stakeholder relationships through ritual and commensality. The method surfaced critical, often-overlooked forms of knowledge, translating abstract policies into tangible experience and contributing to the emergence of affective commons—a shared atmosphere of engagement and sense-making. Our findings show that food can disrupt conventional expertise, flatten hierarchies, and support inclusive, evidence-based decision-making. This approach offers a compelling pathway toward more just and participatory sustainability governance.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.03.001
Yoram Reich , Eswaran Subrahmanian
This paper addresses a divide: economics and design remain largely disconnected despite shared concerns about shaping products, services, and social systems. We propose that bridging design theory and practices—especially the Problem-Social-Institutional (PSI) framework—into market economics can aid the design of complex products and institutions. We illustrate this potential through an in-depth analysis of the evolution of US, Canadian, and British medical residency matching markets, which assign medical graduates to hospitals. Initially considered a purely optimal allocation problem, these markets repeatedly failed, stemming mainly from information asymmetry and shifting participant needs. With PSI, we show how changes in problem framing, stakeholder roles, and institutional structures can realign these markets toward stability and better outcomes. This transdisciplinary view positions market design as an iterative, evolving process, much like engineering a product or service. Our conclusions suggest that economists can benefit from design theories such as PSI and design practices such as prototyping, simulation, and stakeholder engagement. Further, we contend that design theorists stand to deepen their practice by incorporating economic considerations that are largely ignored. PSI is positioned as a bridge between design and economics to serve as a common language and framework.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.05.003
Yongqi Lou , Don Norman , John Thackara , Yrjö Sotamaa , Rosanne Somerson , Lorenzo Imbesi , Ezio Manzini , Patrick Whitney , Dan Hill , Jin Ma
The DesignS: World Design Cities Shanghai Manifesto 2024 redefines the role of design in addressing contemporary polycrises—from climate collapse to AI-driven societal shifts—by advocating for a human-nature engagement paradigm. Building on predecessors like the 2008 Kyoto Design Declaration and 2014 DesignX Manifesto, this document positions design as a catalyst for regenerative economies, equitable innovation, and systemic resilience. Launched at the 2024 World Design Cities Conference in Shanghai, it emphasizes collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-cultural dialogues to reshape the role of design and designers, design education, urban ecosystems, and AI integration, while prioritizing cities and their bioregions as living laboratories for sustainable futures.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.04.001
Martin Åhlén, Suzanna Törnroth, Åsa Wikberg-Nilsson
This article introduces the Design Sensibility Approach—a sensorial and embodied process for making sense of possible futures. The approach is applied through a case study on speculative energy design in the home, conducted and adapted within a participatory workshop held at a regional art hall in Northern Sweden. It unfolds in four phases—Imagine, Make, Explore, and Reflect—across a broader timeline comprising pre-workshop, active workshop, and post-workshop stages. During the workshop, participants were invited to engage with their senses through a series of activities designed to prompt reflection on their own future energy imaginaries, which they materialized using a MakeTools kit. The results reveal three themes: emotional responses elicited from embodied experiences with energy; energy as a lifestyle; and critique of the political landscape surrounding resource extractivism in Northern Sweden. These findings inform the research question: How might the human senses be leveraged to create stronger emotional connections with future domestic energy products and systems? The article concludes by proposing concrete applications of the Design Sensibility Approach at individual, community, and governance levels, highlighting its ethical and inclusive dimensions as areas for future development.
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The Worun: Feeling Safer by Design project addresses gender-based disparities in urban running among women in Chile, presenting a design-led solution to improve safety and reduce perceived vulnerability. This mixed-method study involved 177 participants and combined in-depth interviews, autoethnographic observation, narrative cartography, and journey mapping to identify the barriers female runners face and their unmet needs. Drawing on these insights, the team co-created process a mobile application—Worun—that connects female runners based on shared preferences. Worun leverages community-building and connection to address safety concerns, highlighting the potential of human-centered design to advance gender equity and empowerment. The app was evaluated through a survey that incorporated a promotional video to simulate its use. Results suggest that the proposed solution may help reduce perceived vulnerability. The study found that all female runners experienced some level of vulnerability regardless of age, running pace, or distance. Participants reported a range of urban and social barriers, including inadequate lighting and harassment. By facilitating safer running experiences through connection and community, Worun demonstrates how design can operate as a tactical intervention to improve well-being and autonomy in public spaces. This research contributes to broader conversations on feminist and socially responsive design, emphasizing the need for context-specific solutions that address complex societal issues and support women’s active engagement in urban life.
Worun: Design feel Safer by Design项目旨在解决智利女性在城市运行中的性别差异，提出以设计为主导的解决方案，以提高安全性并减少感知脆弱性。这项混合方法的研究涉及177名参与者，并结合深度访谈、自我民族志观察、叙事制图和旅程地图来确定女性跑步者面临的障碍和她们未满足的需求。根据这些见解，该团队共同创建了一个移动应用程序worun，它可以根据共同的偏好将女性跑步者联系起来。Worun利用社区建设和联系来解决安全问题，强调以人为本的设计在促进性别平等和赋权方面的潜力。这款应用通过一项调查进行了评估，调查中还加入了一段模拟其使用情况的宣传视频。结果表明，提出的解决方案可能有助于减少感知脆弱性。研究发现，无论年龄、跑步速度或距离如何，所有女性跑步者都经历过不同程度的脆弱性。参与者报告了一系列城市和社会障碍，包括照明不足和骚扰。通过连接和社区来促进更安全的跑步体验，Worun展示了设计如何作为战术干预来改善公共空间的幸福感和自主性。这项研究有助于对女权主义和社会响应设计进行更广泛的讨论，强调需要针对具体情况的解决方案来解决复杂的社会问题，并支持女性积极参与城市生活。
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