LAB for Social Design
Ambition and method
LAB for Social Design works to create social and cultural change. The goal is for all children and adults to unfold their full potential in all phases of life.
Our approach is collaborative, empathetic, and performative. Through democratic, experimental, and material-oriented design processes, we explore socially sustainable futures within social design, social innovation, and welfare design in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders. Together, we generate knowledge and examples of how design can contribute to the development and implementation of meaningful products, services, and systems.
Citizenship and Agency
Citizenship and agency can be supported in various ways, from shaping policies to how we as individuals embrace diversity. We engage in redesigning systems and services across sectors, care pathways, and decision-making in cancer treatment. We assist with shifting roles and work cultures. Together, we design for social inclusion of marginalized groups, such as people with disabilities, and students facing challenges in school.
Togetherness
Togetherness is centered around initiating and supporting community building. We design maker spaces and activity rooms in libraries and cultural centers. We design tools to enable holistic care, improve well-being, and include people with disabilities.
Ongoing-ness
Under the theme of Ongoing-ness, we focus on being able to cope with illness, the many transitions from childhood to adulthood, from the workforce to retirement, and having to cope with disabilities or life-changing events such as becoming parents.
Universal design
Universal Design refers to the design of products, environments, programmes, and services so that they can be used by all people to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialised design.
Kolding School of Design and the Bevica Foundation are collaborating to enhance education and research in Universal Design.
LAB for Social Design
